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Spec. Cuar. Perennial: leaflets ovate, pubescent when young? 
racemes short, somewhat corymbiform, short-peduncled, drooping : 
pedicels long: lowest calyx-segments long-pointed, the others very 
short: legumes semi-oval, deeply furrowed along the sutures, ob- 
liquely plaited, 1-seeded, covered with stiff stinging hairs: seed 
kidney-shaped : flowers large, dark-purple. 
Coromandel. Bombay. Silhet and Assam. Flowering in the 
cold season. This species produces the Brahminee vegetable called 
the Negro bean. 
(2) M. arropurpurza. (Dec.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 254.—Dec. prod. II. p. 406. 
Syn. Carpopogon atropurpureum, Roxb. jt. Ind, TIL. p. 287. 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial: leaflets ovate, acuminated: racemes 
drooping, long-peduncled, sometimes compound: pedicels Jong, 
slender, compressed : calyx-segments broadly-ovate, obtuse: legume 
oblong-oval, deeply furrowed along the sutures, obliquely plaited, 2 
or sometimes 1-seeded, copiously covered with brown stinging hairs : 
seed oval, more convex on the one side, and there furnished its 
whole length with the linear hilum: flowers large, dark-purple. 
Courtallum. Travancore and South Concans. Flowering in 
February and March. 
(3) M. eicanrza. (Dec.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 254.—Dee. prod. II. p. 405. 
Syn. Dolichos giganteus, Willd.—Carpopogon giganteum, Roxb. 
fi. Ind. IIT. p. 286.—Stizolobium giganteum, Spreng. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. VITI. t. 36. 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial: leaflets ovate, acute: flowers almost 
umbellate, at the apex of long pendulous peduncles : pedicels long, 
slender: three lower calyx-segments short, tooth-like, the others 
very short and inconspicuous: legume linear-oblong, deeply fur- 
rowed along the sutures, not plaited, covered with stiff brown sting- 
ing hairs, 8—6-seeded : seeds oval: flowers large, sulphur-coloured. 
Negapatam. Malabar. Concans. Soonderbunds. Flowering 
nearly all the year. 
(4) M. uirsuta. (W.& AD) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 254. 
Spec. Cuar. Leaflets ovate, upper sides hirsutely-pubescent : 
branches, petioles and under sides of the leaflets hirsutely-tomen- 
tose: racemes drooping, long-peduncled: pedicels as short as the 
calyx: calyx-segments broad-lanceolate, acuminated, the length of 
the tube: legumes linear, not furrowed on the sutures nor plaited, 
curved, densely covered with rigid stinging hairs: hilum linear. 
Peninsula, 
