188 L. LEGUMiNOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) \Mucuna. 



10. HI. nivea, BC. Prodr. ii. 406; annual, stem and leares beneath gla- 

 brescent, flowers white in long drooping racemes, tracts small linear-lanceolaite, 

 pods shortly velvety glahrescent ribhed longitudinally. Wall. Cat. 5624. Oa*- 

 popogon niveum, Roxh. Sort. Bemg. 64 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 285. M. nigra, Ham. in 

 Wall. Cat. 6617. 



AvA and Bengal, perhaps cultivated only. 



Like the preceding, perhaps only a cultivated race of M. pruriens. Leaflets 



t-f ft. long, distinctly rhomboidal at the base, both sides at first with a few adpressed 

 airs. Eacemes pendulous, often exceeding the leaves. Pedicels, calyx and corolla of 

 M. pruriens, but the latter white. Pod half a foot long, black and destitute of 

 bristles when mature, 6-8-seeded. 



61. AFXOS, Moench. 



Twining herbs. Leaves pinnately 3-7-foliolate, stipeUate. Flowers middle- 

 sized, in lax racemes, with t umi d nodes ; bracts and bracteoles minute, deciduous. 

 Calyx teeth shorter than the tube, two upper connate, lowest lineai, the two 

 others short, deltoid.. Corolla much exserted, the much incurved narrow keel 

 exceeding the spoonshaped standard, the wings still shorter. Stamems diadel- 

 phous; anthers uniform. Ovary subsessile, many-ovuled ; style very long, fili- 

 form, beardless, much, incurved, stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed. — 

 DisiEiB. Species 8, the two others Chinese and N. American. 



1. A, caimeai, Benth. MSS. Oyrtotropis camea, Wall. Cat. 5527; PI. 

 As. Ear. 49, t. 62. 



NiPAx, Wallieh. Khasia, 4-6000 ft.. Hook. JU. Sf Thomson, Lobb. 



Stems slender, soon glahrescent. Petioles 2-3 in. ; leaflets usually 5, rarely 3, 

 glabrous, green above, pale beneath, membranous, opposite, oblong, acute, 3-4 in. 

 long. Flowers in long-pednncled flexuose secund racemes 6-9 in. long ; lower pedicels 

 fascicled, upper solitary ; bracts and bracteoles minute, linear, caducous. Calyx gteeia, 

 glabrous, J-f in. Corolla reddish, quite twice the calyx. Pod 4-5 in. long, glabrous, 

 straight, 12-16-seeded. . 



62. ERITTKRINA, Linn. 



Trees with prickly branches. Flowers large, coral-red, in dense racemes, 

 produced usually before the development of the laige constantly 3-foliolate leaves. 

 Caly^ oblique, spathaceous, finally slitting down to the base or campanulato-bi- 

 labiate. Petals very unequal ; standard always much exserted and considerably 

 •exceeding the keel and wings. Upper stamen free down nearly to the base or 

 connate with the others half way up the filaments ; anthers uniform. Ovary 

 stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved, beardless, stigma capitate. Pod linear, 

 turgid, torulosg. — Distktb. Species 25-SO, principally tropical, in both the new 

 world and the old, and at the Cape. 



SirBeEN. 1. Stenotropis, Sassh. Calyx spathaceous, oblique, not at 

 all 2-lipped, finally split to the base down the back. 



1. E. indica, Lam. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 412 ; calyx 5-cleft at the tip, keel- 

 petals free, pod 6-8-seeded. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 249 ; Wall. Cat. 6963 ; W. §■ 

 A. Prodr. 260 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 87 ; Wight le. t. 58 ; Dah. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 70. 

 D. spathacea. Wall. Cat. 5965. E. cpraUodendron, Linn. S^. 992, ex parte. E. 

 cuneata, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5967. — Sheede Sort. Mai. vi. t. 7. 



Foot of the Himalayas to Ceylon, Birma and Malacca, often planted. Disteib. 



Java, Polynesia. 



