* 
» stalk, fayny velvety-tomentose 
ee _ bristles , all x 
378 : LEGUMINOS#. [ Mucuna. 
MUCUNA, Ad. 
Calyx broadly bell-shaped, 4-toothed, the upper tooth broader 
and bidentate, the lowermost longer. Standard shorter than the 
wings, the keel as long or longer than the wings, with a horny 
point or beak at the incurved end. Stamens united in a sheath, 
the vexillar one free ; anthers often bearded, alternately longer and 
erect, the shorter di ymous and versatile. Ovary sessile with 
usually few ovules; style filiform, not bearded, with a minute 
rminal stigma. Pod linear to oblong and almost ovoid, variously 
transversely laminate, ribbed or plain, Sa septate between 
the large seeds.—Scandent or twining shrubs y undershrubs with 
sauntely 3-foliolate leaves. Stipules pie: ; stipulets often 
resent. Flowers usually showy, in pendulous ee 
racemes or corymbs. Bracts small or large, deciduo 
* ~ feheasten and obliquely reins l-seeded . . ML. monosperma. 
Kk Pi lain or longitudinally ribbed. 
2 rs hoe acuminate at the base. Seeds 
orbic 
Pod 8-4 in. long, appressed tawny hispid, the sutures extended in 
a plaited double wing; flowers white or yellowish . . WM. gigantea. 
Pod 1-3 ft. long, glabrescent, towards the sutures marked with a 
fold-like longitudinal rib ; flowers ps en -dark-purple . U. macrocarpa. 
Pods a. densely hispid. Seeds transversely 
oblon — 
—— naked; flowers arising from a knob; pods with 2 longi- 
tudinal ribs along me upper ears: ee pubescent penne M. pruriens. 
Peduncle so: ad flowers 
without ribs; leaves appearing Saves tas He a 
cane eye. . M. bracteata. 
1. M. monosperma, DC.; Hf. Td: Fl. ii. 185. eee rge twin- 
ing shrub, the shoots rusty-pubescent leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, 
on a rusty-pu nt 3-4 im. long petiole; leaflets more or 
ovate, the ant teral ones very stiandy: i on a rusty- Sanerien 
petio it 
cae: calyx abons % in. sa minutely hiapid and, besides, 
more or less covered with tawny or rusty-brown fragile ’pristles 5 
corolla about 14 in. long, the standard about half as long as the 
keel ; pods thick, obliquely ovate, contracted in a short very thick 
and covered with long : 
