186 1. LEQUMiNOSJ;. (J. G. Baker.) [^Mucuna^ 



subsessile ; bracts none seen ; pedicels i-f in. ; tracteoles linear, exceeding the bud. 

 Cal^x J in., -with copious irritating bristles ; lower tooth linear ; side ones deltoid. 

 Corolla 1 J in. long ; keel abruptly inflexed at the tip ; -vrings J in., standard J in. 

 broad. JPod 3 in. long, obscurely stipitate, clothed with copious ferruginous' or dull 

 brown irritating bristles ; wings J-^ in. deep. 



3. nx. atropurpurea, DC. Prodr. ii. 406 ; leaflets glabrous, racemes- 

 long-pedimcled drooping elongated often forked, upper calyx-lip more than half 

 as long as the tube, pod two-seeded twice as long as broad. Wall. Cat. 5620 ;. 

 W. 4* -4. R-odr. 254 Carpopogon atropurpureum, jRoxb. XLort. Beng. 54 ; FL 

 Ind. iii. 287. 



Plains of Western Peninstjia and Ceylon. Malacca, Maingay. 



A woody climber, with Tery slender glabrous branches. Leaflets membranous,, 

 subconcolorous, shining on the upper surface, the end one oblong-cuspidate,. 4-6 in. 

 long. Racemes pendent, not corymbose ; bracts small, ovate, soon deciduous ; bracte- 

 oles oblong-spathulate, obtuse, ^— J in. Calyx ^-f in. long, deeply bilabiate, with a 

 few ferruginous irritating bristles. CoroUa dark purple, 2-2^ in. long ; keel abruptly 

 turned up at the end ; wings |-f in., standard 1 in. broad. Pod sessile, 3 in. long, the 

 faces traversed with close oblique plaits, and furnished with abundant yellow-brown 

 irritating bristles. 



SxTBGEir. 3. Carpopog'on, Roxh. Porf broadly winged down both sutures, 

 but not plaited on the faces. 



4. m.. ^i^antea, DC. Prodr. ii. 405; Wcdl. Cat. 5619; W. ^ A. 

 Prodr. 254: ; Wight in Hooh. Sot. Misc. ii. 351, Suppl. t. 14. Oarpopogoa 

 giganteum, Roxh. Sort. Beng. 54 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 286. Dolichos giganteus, Wuld.. 

 Sp. PI. iii. 1041.— Pheede Sort. Mai. yiii. t. 36. 



Plains of the Western Peninsula ; Andamans, Kurz. — Disteie. Malaya, Philip- 

 pines, Polynesia. 



A woody climber, with slender glabrous branches. Leaflets subooriaceous, sub- 

 concolorous, glabrous ; end one oblong-cuspidate, 5-6 in. long. Flowers ] 2-30 in long- 

 peduncled drooping close racemes ; pedicels 1 in. long. Calyx J-| in., with a few 

 irritating bristles ; upper lip subtruncate. Corolla yellow, 1-1 J in. long ; keel not 

 abruptly inflexed at the end. Pod 3-6 in. by 2 in., flat on the faces, copiously clothed 

 ■with abundant deciduous yellow-brown irritating bristles, 2-6-seeded. 



SiTBGEif. 4. Stizolobium, Pers. Pod without either distinct plaits oa 

 the faces or wings down the sutures. 



5. m. macrocarpa, Wall. Cat. 5618 ; woody, branches and leaves- 

 glabrous, upper lip of calyx subtruncate, pod very large subUgnose glabrescent. 



NrpAL and Silhet, Wallich. Khasia and Sikeim, 1-6000 ft., plentiful, HooJc.fil. ^ 

 Thomson. 



BrancMets slender, terete. Leaflets subcoriaceous, the undersurface with a few ad- 

 pressed deciduous hairs ; end one ovate-cuspidate, 6-8 in. long. Racemes fascicled 

 from the old wood, short-peduncled, with a densely brown-velvety rachis, the lower 

 nodes sending out short branches; pedicels -f-J in., velvety, decurved; bracteoles 

 ^ in. obtuse, oblong. Calyx nearly 1 in. long, with a few irritating bristles ; lower 

 teeth as long as the tube. Corolla 2^3 in. long; keel abruptly turned up at the 

 tip; wings fin.; standard 1^ in. broad. Fod 1-1^ ft. by l^lf in., 8-12-seeded,. 

 distinctly torulose, finely velvety at flrst, slightly channelled down both sides of both 

 sutures. 



6. m. bracteata, DC. Prodr. ii. 406; annual or perennial, branchep^ 

 and leaves below vrith a few adpresaed Lairs, flowers purple in sliort-peduiici?^. 



