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liencatli very densely grayisli pubescent, al)Ove pubescent, especially on 
the iierves; nerves rather pi’oniinent, ti to 7 pairs. .Hacenies densely 
cinereous pubescent and with brownish stinging hairs. Pedicels about 
5 mm. long. Calyx about 1 cm. long, the teeth acute or acuminate, 
cinereous pubescent and with numeruos long, Ijrownish red, stinging hairs. 
Corolla black-purple, about 3.5 cm. long; standard about 2 cm. long; 
wings slightly shorter than the keel, the latter somewhat inflexed at the 
apex. Pod flat, straight, abruptly hooked at the apex, with about 5 
seeds. 
Luzon, Province of LTnion, Bauang (.5999 Elmer) February, 1904, distributed 
as Mucuna sericophylla Perk., from wliicb it differs in its apiculate, not retuse 
leaflets, somewhat smaller flowers, and much broader pods. 
Mucuna lyonii Merrill s'p. nov. ^ Stizolobiuvi. Negreiia mitis Blanco (non 
Beauv.) FI. Filip, ed. 1 (1837) 588; ed. 2 (1845) 410; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
388; Naves 1. c. t. IfOS bis. Mucuna nivea F.-Vill. (non DC.) Nov. App. 
(1883) 63. 
A scandent annual vine with somewliat pul)escent, with apiculate 
leaflets, axillary racemes 30 to -10 cm. long, of very pale green, nearly 
white flowers 4 to 4.5 cm. long and narrowly oblong pods 10 to 12 cm. 
long, 2 cm. wide, densely covered with Imown or gray hairs, not plaited 
or winged. Stems striate, pubescent with appressed grayish hairs. Leaves 
25 to 40 cm. long, the leaflets three, membranous, the terminal one broadly 
ovate, regular, the apex acute or obtuse, the base subtruncate-acute, 11 to 
14 cm. long, 9 to 11 cm. wide, the lateral leaflets 20 con. long and 12 cm. 
wide, or less, oblique-truncate at the base, much broader on one side 
of the midrib than on the other, the apex apiculate, glabrous and shining 
al)ove, beneath paler and with scattered appressed rather long grayish 
hairs; petioles 30 cm. long or less, somewhat ]mbescent; petiolules 
nearly 1 cm. long, rather densely pul)escent ; stipels subulate, about 2 
mm. long. Eacemes 30 to 40 cm. long, many flowered, more or less 
appressed grayish pubescent. Flowers in groups of threes, the inter- 
nodes 1.5 to 2 cm. long, the pedicels about 8 mm. long. Cal3^x pale 
green, rather densely appressed grayish ]:>uhescent, the upper tooth 
triangular-ovate, acirte, 7 to 8 mm. long, the lower lanceolate, acuminate, 
1 cm. long, the two lateral ones lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 5 mm. 
long. Standard broadly elliptical-ovate, 2.5 cm. long, 2 cm. wide, olfluse, 
minutely retuse; wings 4 cm. long, 1.5 cm. wide, obtuse, auriculate at 
the base, claw short ; keel equaling the wings, the upjier 1 cm. inflexed, 
auricled at the base, the claw short. Ovary hirsute. Pods slightly 
turgid, somewhat curved, mucronate at the apex, slightly compressed 
between the seeds; seeds about (i. 
Description from plants raised in Manila by tF. S. Lyon of the Bureau of 
Agriculture, the seeds from Pampanga Province, Luzon, known to the Pampangans 
as Sahual. Blanco gives only the Spanish names Habas and Garbanzos. 
