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the figure the seed is not mottled or speckled, whereas the Florida 
velvet bean is. A comparison of figure 1 and Plates I, II, and III 
will illustrate the difference between the two plants. 
The other described species 
belonging to the same group 
as the Florida velvet bean are 
Mucuna cochinchinensis Lour., 
which has white flowers and 
thick legumes, color of seeds 
not given; J/ucuna capitata 
(Roxburgh) Wight and Ar- 
nott, with purple flowers and 
black shining seeds; J/veuna 
nivea (Roxburgh) Wight ‘and 
Arnott, with white flowers 
and ash-colored seeds; J/u- 
cuna lyont Merrill, with white 
flowers and ash-colored seeds, 
but quite distinct from d/w- 
cuna nivea; Mucuna velutina 
Hassk., with purple flowers 
and six different varieties as 
regards seeds, none of which 
are at all like the Florida 
velvet bean; J/ucuna brac- 
teata Baker, with gray leaves, 
broad, ovate, persistent bracts, 
and pods covered with gray, 
velvety tomentum when 
young; Jucuna macrocarpa 
Wallich, with woody stems 
and very large, half-woody 
pods, which are 1 to 14 feet 
long and 8 to 12 seeded; and 
Mucuna hirsuta Wight and Ar- 
nott, with very hairy branches 
and densely silky leaves, es- 
pecially beneath, and pods 
Fig. 1.—A cluster of mature pods of the i : ae # ih 
Florida velvet bean. Two-thirds natural covered with stinging hairs. 
mee Most of the above species, 
and in addition three apparently undescribed species, were grown in 
1908 at Biloxi, Miss. These species are all very much alike in habit, 
the most obvious differences being found in the calyx, in the character 
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