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edges double with I'efieKed marfjins, covered with close pungent brown 
bristly pubescence ; Marginal wings lobed between tlie plaits. M. atro- 
purpitrea Buk. in Flor. Brit. Tnd. 11. 18G in part and as to the Malacca 
plant oniy. M. anguina Scheff. Nat. Tijd. Ned, lud, XXXII . 413 not of 
Wall. Zonphihalmum hipUcatum Praiu MSS. 
Mjllacca; Maingay, 590. Penakg; Gapis Pase, Curtis 2989! 
Pbrak ; Ulu Kewanta, Scorteckini 925 ! Sunga Rjah, etc. Kumtier 868 ! 
39151 68051 8330! Wray 374,6! DiBxaiB. Sumatra {ForUs 26i9!) 
Borneo. • 
Tbai^ are at Oalcatta both floweriiig and f mi ting examples of Teysmanii 
and Bjntiendyk^B original species cultivated in tliQ Biiitsnzorg garden \ tlmm are 
identical in ercry dtstftil with lLus. comiHiiDu Sumatra and Malay PoninsaU plant. 
Tbo pods tnnob. rcsQtnblfi^ those of M. iityvp\irpufea.i to whioU it com^s Beare»t and 
with which it has been identified by Jir, Baker. Bnt, boeidea the double edge to 
the plaitB on the podsj whence the name, the Malayan differs, from the Indian 
species in having larger leaflets, aliorter infioreBcenoeB^ a calyx with an almost 
trnncate motith and a collar of acaly bracts at the nook of the peduntjlo simitar to 
bat smaller than those that oooat at the base of the pedamole in M. hmcteata of the 
subgenus BiizQlphiii'm, 
§ CARPOi'OGON. Pods not plaited across their faces. 
4. MucuNA ACUMINATA Grab, in Wall. Cat. 5621, A slender creeper 
20-30 feet long with sparingly adprcsacd'pnberuloas branches. Learns 
6-10 in. long ; leaflets 3, membranous dull green glabrous above 
sparingly puberuloue eepecially on the nerves beneath, ovate-oblong 
rather abruptly acuminate, base romnded or subtruncate — of lateral 
leaflets obliquely, 2*5-4 in. long 2^3"5 in. wide, petiole glabrous, 4-6 in. 
long ; petiohilos '25 in. adpressed-puborulous \ stipels subulate 15 in. 
long, stipules linear '2 in. Inflorescence when young in strobilate heads, 
corymbose, axillary, 2-3 iu. long, peduncle grey-pubescent arising from 
an axillary node, its neck with a collar of small triangular acute scaly 
bracts "15 in. long emitting at once 1-4 4-8-fld, usualiy bifnrcato 
branches; bracts at base of pedicels deciduous large boat-shaped 
externally finely grey-pubescent, 75 in. long, '5 In. wide j pedicels grey- 
pubescent at length '4-*6 in., bracteoles at baae of calyx *3 in. long, 
deciduous, lunceolate, as loug af=i buds. Oalyai glossy pale-brown donsely 
covered with deciduons pungent bristles, '5 in. long, tube wide campa- 
nulate twice as long as unequal teeth ; upper t/ooth truncate, lateral wi<lc- 
deltoid, lower linear longer than the othei"«. Corolla l'75-2 in. long, 
keel not abruptly inEexed at tip; wings as long as keel and twice as 
long as the standard '7 in. wide. Pod not quite ripe, 3 in. long, 1*5 in. 
across, broadly wintj-cd down both sutures but not plaited on the facen, 
copiously clothed especially along the wings with deciduous yellow- 
brown iiTitating bristles; seeds 3. Zoo^hthtdnmm ammimtum Prain 
MSS. 
