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Hab. Feejee Islands; on Ovolau and Yanua-levu. Samoan 

 Islands ; on Tutuila, Savaii, &c, " with a stem 3 inches in diameter, 

 spreading over the tallest trees." Hawaii, Sandwich Islands ; in the 

 district of Puna, at a watering place, near Kaimo : a form with a 

 glabrate pod. Introduced ? " Flowers green." 



The M. altissima enumerated in Vogel's account of Chamisso's col- 

 lection, in Oahu, is probably this species. That of Hooker & Arnott, 

 in Beechey's Voyage, as to the specimens, is Strongylodon ruber. 



2. Mucuna urens, DC. I. c. 



Dolichos urens, Linn.; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. t. 132, f. 84. (Plum. Amer. t. 107.) 



Hab. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, in the district of Waimea, near 

 the coast (in flower and fruit) : probably introduced. (Also gathered 

 by Gaudichaud, in the Voyage of the Bonite.) Tahiti, in the interior 

 forest; where Dr. Pickering noted a species with alate sutures and 

 oblique ridges, probably M. urens; but there is no such specimen in 

 the collection. 



3. MUCUNA PLATYPHYLLA, Sp. Nov. 



M. fidvo-pubescens ; foliolis magnis rotundis apiculatis subtus reticulatis 

 supra mox glabris; floribus cymosis viridulis; leguminibus ovalibus 

 plano-compressis transverse lamellosis, junioribus liispidissimis. 



Hab. Ovolau and Eewa, Feejee Islands. 



Plant with a stout and apparently tall-climbing, woody stem; the 

 branches, ample foliage, &c, clothed throughout with a soft rusty or 

 fulvous pubescence. Petioles 5 or 6 inches long. Leaflets roundish, 

 5 or 6 inches in length, the terminal one often broader than long, 

 the lateral ones obliquely rotund-ovate, all abruptly apiculate with a 

 small acumination, tomentose with rusty pubescence and conspi- 

 cuously reticulated underneath, early glabrous above. Stipels seta- 

 ceous. Peduncle axillary, shorter than the petiole, bearing many 



