I.EGUMI NOS/E. 
293 
an awn glabrous, racemes opposite to a leaf, legumes 
pubescent 7-S times longer than broad. 
Dolielios altissimus, Jacq. Amer. 203. t. 182. f. 85. — Mucuna 
altissima, Be Cand. Prod. II. 405. 
HAB. Common in woods. Port-Royal and St John’s Hills. 
FL. August, September. 
Climbing to a great height on trees, and suspending from thence 
its long pendulous branches, adorned with racemes of beautiful 
flowers. Leaflets irregular in their shape, elliptic or oblong, 
somewhat obovate, emarginate, obtuse with an awn, glabrous. 
Racemes opposite to a leaf, 6—12 inches long, simple. Pedun- 
cle subterete, slightly angulose : flowers purple, showy, very 
shortly pedicelled, 3 together, inserted on a subglobose fleshy 
excrescence. Calyx 2-lipped, subglabrous ; under lip 3-fid, 
with the middle lobe tooth-like and the lateral ones obtuse, 
approximating; upper lip sub-bilobed from the apex being 
reflected ; lobes rounded. Standard reflected, purple, rounded, 
emarginate; wings short, revolute, adhering at their middle to, 
and of the same colour as the keel, which is dipetalous but 
united at the apex. Stamens submonadelphous : anthers oval. 
Ovary oblong, appresso-pubescent : style longer than the fila- 
ments : stigma obtuse. Legume 7-8 inches long, and 1 broad, 
compressed, slightly curved, uncinate at the apex, pubescent 
with oppressed hairs; a grooved keel along the back, and a 
parallel sharp keel on each side at the distance of rather less 
than half an inch from the back: seeds 11 in number, oval, 
compressed, of a dirty white ; hilum linear. 
Jacquin describes this species as common in the woods of 
Martinique. 
XXVIII. Mucuna. Cowitch. 
Calyx campanulate, bilabiate : inferior lip 3-fid, 
with the divisions acute, and the middle one more pro- 
duced ; upper lip broad, entire, obtuse. Standard 
assurgent, shorter than the wings or keel ; wings 
oblong, length of the keel ; keel oblong, straight, 
acute. Stamens diadelphous ; 5 of the anthers ob- 
longo-linear ; 5 ovate, hirsute. Legume oblong, to- 
rose, bivalve, with cellulose partitions : seeds roundish, 
cinctured circularly with a linear hilum . — De Cand. 
Herbs or shrubs, ascending to a considerable height : leaves 
pinnato-trifoliate ; racemes axillary, generally pendulous; le- 
gumes usually hispid with innumerable very fragile hairs readily 
penetrating the skin and stinging . — Mucuna is the Indian name 
of the following species. 
