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membranaceous ; terminal leaflet cuneate towards the base ; flowers 

 of a beautiful bluish-purple, 1 i inch long, several on the apex 

 of a very long naked, sharply-angular peduncle (12 to 16 inches) ; 

 upper, lip of calyx minutely bidentate, lower lip trifid, teeth 

 triangular, middle one longest. Budgee hill in Braminwara rangej 

 Deccan ; very rare. 



17. MUCUNA, Adans. 



1. MoNOSPERMA, DC. Prod. 2, 406. — Perennial; leaflets ovate 

 pubescent when young ; racemes corymbiform, drooping ; legume 

 semioval, obliquely plaited, one-seeded, and covered with stiff 

 ferruginous burning hairs ; seed kidney-shaped, with a large hilum. 

 Common in the hilly jungles ; Ram Ghaut; flowers in December. 

 Syn. Carpogogon monospermum, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 283. 



2. Peurita, Hook, in Bot. Misc. ii, 308. — Annual; branches 

 hairy ; leaflets ovate, sprinkled with silvery hairs beneath ; racemes 

 peduncled, drooping ; legume shaped like the letter S, armed with 

 tawny stinging hair-s. Cowitch, used to kill intestinal worms, which 

 they do by mechanical action. Very common in hedges. Syn. 

 Dolichos pruriens, Roxb. in E. I. C. Mus. t. 284; Carpogogon 

 pruriens, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 283 ; Stizolobium pruriens, Spr. syst. 

 iii, 252; Rheed. Mai. viii, t. 35; Rumph. Amh. v, t. 142; 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. ii, Suppl. t. 3. 



18. ERYTHRINA, Linn. 



1. Indica, Lam. Encyc. Meth. ii, 391. (a) — Arboreous ; trunk 

 armed with black prickles ; leaves pinnately trifoliolate ; leaflets 

 glabrous, entire, the terminal one broadly cordate ; racemes ter- 

 minal, horizontal ; floweis bright-scarlet, appear in March ; legume 

 long, torulose, 6 to 8-seeded, blackish ; seeds largish, dark-red. DC. 

 Prod. 2, p 412 ; W. and A. Prnd. 260 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 249; E 

 corallodendron B, Linn. sp. 992. Employed as a support for the 

 black-pepper plant, also for vines. A very common tree. Wight 

 Ic. t. 68. Native name " Pangara ; " wood used for sword-sheaths. 



2. Stricta, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, p 251. — Arboreous, armed with 

 numerous white prickles ; leaflets glabrous entiie, terminal one re- 

 niform, cordate-pointed ; racemes terminal, horizontal ; flowers large, 

 bright-scarlet; legume lanceolar-pointed, smooth, light-brown; 

 seeds 2 to 3, oval and smooth. A new genus (Micropteryx) has 

 been proposed for this, and the following by Walpers in the Linn, 

 xxii, 740. Elephanta ; the Ghauts, Graham; Southern Concan; 

 pretty common. 



3. StJBERosA, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 253. — Arboreous, bark corky; 

 leaflets white, with down beneath, terminal one rhomboid and 



