236 LBaUMINOSM, [Muctjna. 



dimorphotis. Oya?'^ sessile, man j-ovuled; 5#_j^^e incurved, beardless, 

 stigma capitate. Fod very variable in shape and sculpfcnre, usually 

 covered witli brittle needle-like irritating bristles. —S pedes about 30, 

 tbrougliout the tropics. 



Woody climbers, with the faces of pod obliquely plaited. 



Sutures of pod winged . . , 1, M, imhricata. 



Sutures of pod not winged . . » 2, M. atrojpurpurea. 



Annuals, with the valves of pod not 

 obliquely plaited. 



Flowers in racemes, pods 

 densely bristly . . . ,3. M.'jpruriens. 



Flowers in corymhs ; pods 

 much longer, clothed with 

 short deciduous bristles . . 4. M. ca^gitata. 



1. M. imbricata* T)Q. Prod, ii, 406j F. B. I. ii, 185 ; Train in Joum, 

 As. 8oc, Beng. LXVI, /part ii, 65. M, monosperma, Wall, {in part)} 

 Boyle III. 191. 



A large woody climber with slender glabrescent branches. Leaves 9-15 

 in. long ; stipules linear, ^ in. long ; leaflets 5-7 in. long, membranous, 

 glabrous or with a fewappressed hairs bene:;th, ovate-oblong, cuspidate, 

 rounded at the base, the lateral ones obliquely so ; stipels subulate, 

 Bacemes axillary, laxly 8-lU-flovered; pedicels in the axils of large 

 deciduous boat-snaped bracts, 1-3-fl.owered ; hracteoles small, caducous. 

 Calyx I in., sparsely bristly outside ; tube campanulate, hardly longer 

 than the wide triangular teeth. Qorolla 2-2^ in. long, dull purple ; 

 standard half as long as the abruptly inflexed keel ; icings ^ in. wide. 

 Pod oblong, 4|-6 in. long by 2^ in. wide, clothed with deciduous 

 bristles ; the wings i in. wide ; plaits hardly crossing the wings, 

 Seeds 2-3. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Distkib. : Himalaya from Kumaon 

 eastwards, up to 4,000 ft. ; Manipur, Burma and Andaman Islands. 

 Flowers during the rains. 



2. M. atropurpurea, DC. Prod, ii, 406; W. <^ A, Prod. 254; F. B 

 I. ii, 186. Carpopogon atropurpureum, Boxh. Ft. Ind. Hi, 287. Vern. 

 Bhainswali-hel (Dehra Dun). 



A woody climber with slender glabrous branches. Leaflets 5-8 in. long, 

 ovate or oblong, glabrous, shining above, lateral very oblique, the end 

 one cuspidate. Bacemes 6-12 in., on long peduncles, drooping, some- 

 times forked ; bracts small, ovate, caducous ; hracteoles oblong-spathu- 

 late. Calyx about t in. long, its upper lip more than half as long as 

 the tube, sparsely clothed with rasty-coloured irritating bristles. 

 Corolla 2-2Un., dark-purple ; standard lin. broad and about half the 

 length of the abruptly inflexed keel ; wings about half the length of 



