40S D. Prain -- Some additional Lcguminosce. [No. 2, 



short truncate, pod two-seeded twice as long as broad, plaits with re- 

 flexed double-margins. Prain, Jo urn. As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 66. M. 

 atropurpurea Bak. in Flor. Brit. hid. ii. 18$ (as to the Malayan plant 

 only). Zoopb thai mum biplicntum Prain MSS. 



Malacca; Maingay. Perak ; very common, Kunstler ! 8 cor t echini! 

 Wray ! Penang ; Curtis! Distrib. Sumatra (Forbes). Borneo (Teys- 

 mann). 



A slender woody climber 30-40 feet long, with glabrous branches. Leaflets 

 papery, dull-green, ovate-oblong cuspidate, 6-8 in. long, 5 in. across. Racemes 2 in. 

 long, usually branching at the very base, occasionally further up ; bracts and brnc- 

 teoles much as in M monosperma but the latter much smaller and shorter than the 

 buds. Calyi greenish-brown, "35 in. long, all the teeth minute densely bristly. 

 Corolla dark-purple, 1'75 in. long, keel abruptly incurved at end, wings 125 in. 

 long, standard "75 in. wide. Pod hardly stipitate, 35 in. long, 1*75 in. wide; plaits 

 very close ; bristles pungent, abundant, brown. 



§ Carpopogon. Pods not plaited across their faces. 



36. Mucuna acuminata Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5621 ; Prain, Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 67. Zoopbthalmum acuminatum Praia MSS. 



Add to localities of F. B. I.: — Perak ; Kinta, Kunstler! Singa- 

 pore ; Chan Chu Kang, Ridley ! Distrib. Java (Forbes). 



This species is referred to in the Flora of British India under M. imbricata. 

 Its pod has now been reported and is like that of M. gigantea; the species is therefore 

 a member of § Carpopogon Bth. & Hk. f. It further resembles M. gigantea in having 

 a pale-green corolla. From M. gigantea it is however easily distinguished by its 

 short coiymbose inflorescence, its long calyx-teeth, its much larger flowers, and its 

 large boat-shaped floral bracts. 



4. Mucuna gigantea DC. Zoophthalmum giganteum Prain MSS. 

 Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Bengal ; Sundribuhs, very com- 

 mon, Kurz ! Heinig ! Ceylon ; Walker ! Tenasserim ; Tavoy, Gomez 

 (Wall. Cat. n. 5622)! Malay Peninsula; Pahang, Ridley! Perak; 

 Scortecliini ! 



This species is very common in the Andamans where it has been collected not 

 only by Kurz but by Liebig, E. H. Man, and the writer, who has obtained it on 

 outlying islands like Narcondam, the Coco Group and Little Andaman, as well as on 

 the main island. The locality " plains of Western Peninsular," given in the F. B. I , 

 the writer lias been unable to authenticate. The only locality mentioned by Rheede, 

 whose figure of the plant is excellent, is one near the sea in Malabar; lie says it 

 occurs " in other places " than the one mentioned but does not say they are inland 

 ones. The only place where Wight gathered it was at Negapatam on the Cormandel 

 Coast ; in Hooker's Botanical Miscellany it is said to grow only near the sea. 



The writer, who has given some attention to the various Mucuvas in the field, 

 has always found M. gigantea a strictly littoral species elsewhere and more evidence 

 is necessary before its inland occurrence in the Indian Peninsula can be credited. 

 Mr. E. H. Man notes on a specimen that this, which the Andamanese know as ch&kan- 

 da, is always found on the borders of salt-creeks and is in this respect quite unlike M. 



