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to create a series of new combinations to be buried in synonymy as soon as 
another congress of similar spirit has an opportunity to do so. No new name is 
here proposed, as it would only add to the complications which are already too 
numerous. 
Considerations of usage or expediency alone can have led to the arbitrary 
rejection of Pedicellaria by the majority of the Vienna Congress, as it was 
monotypic, based professedly upon the Linnaean species, and published the new 
combination Pedicellaria pentaphylla. 
The species is cosmopolitan in the tropics, and abundant in the Philippines, 
represented in the herbarium of the Philippine Bureau of Science by collections 
from the Islands of Luzon, Mindoro, Panay, and Mindanao ( Williams 2938). 
LEGUMINOSiE. 
INDIGOFERA Linn. 
Indjgofera nigrescens Kurz ex Prain in Jour. As. Soc. Bengal 67 2 (1898) 286. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Kias Hill, Williams 925, flowers and fruit, Sep- 
tember 11, 1904; Loakan, Williams 11/ 13, fruit, October 18, 1904; Baguio, Elmer 
6582, flowers; July 18, 1904; Pauai, Bur. Sci. 1/273, 1/396, 1/1/58 M earns, flowers, 
July- August, 1907; without definite locality, Bur. Sci. 31/62 M earns, flowers, July, 
1907. 
Distribution, Khasia Mountains, India, and southwestern China; not pre- 
viously credited to the Philippines. 
MUCUNA Adans. 
Mucuna aurea sp. nov. 
Scandens; foliis trifoliolatis, foliolis laferalibus late ovatis, basi trun- 
catis, terminali rhomboideo ; floribus circiter 5 cm longis, pedicellis aureo- 
tomentosis, crassis, 1.5-1. 7 cm longis suffultis. 
Inflorescence a somewhat zigzag raceme, at least 13 cm long, j^ellowish- 
tomentose with hairs about 0.5 mm long and others interspersed of 
rather deeper color 1.5-2 mm long, which are especially frequent upon 
the calyx; pedicels 1.5-1. 7 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, 
long-acuminate, borne singly or in pairs: flowers 5. 5-5. 6 cm long; calyx 
broadly campanulate, the tube 1.1-1. 2 cm long, the lateral lobes semicir- 
cular, acuminate, or in all nearly triangular, 7 mm long, the basal lobe 
triangular, nearly 1 cm long, upper lobes united; petals 5, those of the 
keel clawed, subfalcate, acute at the apex, 5 cm long, 6.5-8 mm wide, 
glabrous except at the base and for occasional scattered hairs elsewhere, 
the basal three- fifths united; wings 5.2 cm long, 1.2— 1.3 cm wide, clawed, 
rounded at the apex, slightly hastate near the base, tomentose on the 
basal fourth of the upper margin and in the outer lower basal corner; 
standard suborbicular, 2. 7-2. 8 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, cordate at the base; 
stamens 10, 4.8-5 cm long, all except the uppermost forming a tube 
for about 3.6 cm; pistil at anthesis 5.6 cm long, the ovary sessile, villose- 
tomentose, 9 mm long, the style filiform, tomentose, stigma small, 
capitate; ovules 3, oval to rhomboid: fruit unknown. 
