IS97.] G. King— Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. G5 
Pods without plaiti across th&iv faoee {§ Carpopogm); 
(wido* winged down botli stitiires) 
Hacomea sliort coiymboso, bracts large boat-shaped 4. If. acuminata. 
Racemes long-pediinoled, umbellifoi-m, bracts mmvjte... 5, M, ffiganfaa* 
Annuals ; poda turgid, liooked ; seeda small oral with small 
lateral Mltim (Snbgen. Stixolobeuu) „^ ... 6. JSf. pruriana. 
,MUM. Perennial climbers ; seeds large more 
or less flattened, with a long liilum extending ronnd the greater part of 
the periphery, 
§ CtTTA, Pods platfced across their faces. 
1. MucuKA iMBRicATA DC, Prodr. IT, 406, A large woody climber 
with slender glabreacont branchefs. Learns 9-15 in. long ; leaflets 3, 
inembranons, green, glabrons above, glabrons or with a few adpressed 
hairs beneath, ovate-oblong cuspklate, base rounded — of lateral leaflets 
obliquely, 5-7 in. long, 3-3*5 in. aeroas, petiole glabi'ous in. long, 
petiolulos "2 in., stipels subulate '15 in,; stipules linear "25 in. long. 
hijlorescenee of lax 8-10-fld. axillary racemes, pedicels "35 in, long 1-3 
together from swollen nodes towards upper thii-d to fourth of peduucle 
5-15 in. long, and in. the axils of large boafc-shaped deciduous bmcts 
1'25 in. long 1 in. wide glabrous on both surfaces rounded at apex 
except the acute or subacute lowest, forming at first ft strobilate head, 
Cahjx '75 in. long sparsely covei-ed externally with brown deciduous 
irritating bristles, tube wide-eampnnulatQ hardly longer than the wide 
triangular teeth ; flower-buds with a bracteole similar to bracts bub 
much smaller and more early deciduous, at base of calyx. Corolla 
3-2'25 in. long dull purple or white with purple spots ; keel abruptly 
inflexed at tip standard 1 in. across 1"25 in. long ; wingg -5 in. wide. 
Fod oblong 4*5-6 in, long 2-25 in. across, wings along the sutures *5 in. 
wide^ plaits -35 in. deep hardly crossing the wings ; clothed in all parts 
with brown deciduous bristles; seeds 2-^3. Bak. in Flor. Brit, Ind» 
11, 185. Oitta nigricans Lour. Flor. Cochinchin. 557. Carpopogon ivihri- 
adum Roxb. Hort. Bong. 54 Stiiolohiitm imhricatum Kuntze Bey, 
Gen. Plant. I, 208. ZoopJitJialmum nigricans Prain MSS. 
Akuamaks ; in the interior forests, common. DtSTRrn, Himalayas 
from Kamaon, eastward ; and throughout Indo-Cliina. 
Most nearly related, amongst Malaynii species, to Slizolohium Jnngh%knianuni 
Kunt7.e(Rcv, Chn, Plant. I, 208) from Java, which bas very similnr bracts. The pods, 
however, avo in that speciea slightly nnriower with rathor narrower wtngs across 
which the plaits ejttend moro completely. The branches, petioloa, leavoa and bracts 
of M* Jtififfhulmiana are moreover alrigosely hispid and tho calyx and pods are 
more densely bristly. Nearly related also is M, ajanosperma K. Solmm., from the 
Uoluccas. 
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