576 XLVII. LEGUMINOS^E. [SpatholobuS. 
nerves 9 pairs, fine ascending, 3 to 3'5 in. long, 1 to i'25 in. wide. 
Stipels small rigid; stipules lanceolate '25 in. long. Panicles 
2*5 in. long; branches few 1 in. long. Calyx campanulate ’12 in. 
long pubescent, teeth rounded upper truncate. Corolla *25 in. 
long, white or yellow; standard orbicular, retuse. Pod 4 in. long, 
1 in. wide, oblong dilate towards tip, rounded puberulous. Hab. 
Singapore on a Kempas tree in Botanic Gardens and at Chan Chu 
Kang. Apparently very local. 
Excluded Species 
S. crassifolius Benth. PI. Jungh. 238; Prain, l.c. 78; ? Penang 
(Wallich 5913). 
It has not again been found in Penang, and Wallich puts a ? 
to the locality. His other specimens were from Sylhet. 
17 . MUCUNA, Adans. 
Perennials or annuals. Leaves large trifoliate. Flowers large 
deep purple, or yellow and white drying black. Calyx campanulate 
bristly, upper teeth connate lower longer. Corolla long exsert; 
standard half as long as keel (beaked). Stamens diadelphous; 
anthers dimorphous. Ovary sessile; ovules many; style incurved, 
beardless. Pod oblong or linear, rather thick, large, covered with 
very irritating bristles. Species 30, tropics. The cowhage plants. 
Pods flat; seeds large with a hilum extending all round. 
Pods with plaits across the sides. 
Flowers light dull purple . . . . . (1) M. biplicata 
Pods without plaits. 
Racemes short corymbose; bracts large boat¬ 
shaped ; flowers fawn and white . . • ( 2 ) M. acuminata 
Racemes long peduncled; bracts minute; flowers 
pale yellow.. (3) M. gigantea 
Pods swollen, hooked; bracts minute oval; hilum 
small. 
Flowers purple . . . . * - (4) M. pruriens 
(1) M. biplicata Teysm. and Binn. Cat. Hort. Bogor. 261; 
Prain, l.c . 66. M. atropurpurea Baker, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. ii. 
186 in part. 
A large climber 30 to 40 ft. long, glabrous. Leaves 9 to 12 in. 
long; leaflets ovate-oblong cuspidate, base round (laterals oblique), 
6 to 8 in. long, 5 in. across; petioles 4 to 6 in. long. Inflorescence 
corymbose 2 in. long, 15- to, 18-flowered, velvety; pedicels *2 in. 
long. Calyx greenish brown densely pungent-bristly, ’35 in. long, 
campanulate, teeth minute. Corolla light dull purple, 175 in. 
long; standard 75 in. wide. Pod oblong 3'5 in. long, 175 in. wide, 
covered with close-set oblique plaits, edges of pod double reflexed. 
Hab. River banks and forests. Johor, Kota Tinggi. Pahang, Kwala 
Tembeling. Malacca, Mt. Ophir (Maingay). Perak, near Gunong 
