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sequales, 3 vel 4 lineas longi, villosi, Stipulell@ ad basin petiolellorum subulato-filiformes, pilosi; folioli 
terminalis trilineares, lateralium breviores. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, teretes, villisc inerascentes, longi, 
pedales et ultra, superne e callis alternis multiflori, seepe inter callos superiores flexuosi. Oalli subglobosi, 
magnitudine seminis cannabini, glabri, distantes, inferiores valde remoti, singulus gerens flosculos plerumque 
binos interdum tres raro quatuor, pendulos magnos (sesquiunciales) e purpureo roseos, breviter pedicel- 
latos, unde modus florendi inter racemum et spicam. Pedicelli villosi, inferiores lineares, superiores sen- 
sim breviores, Bractee duse opposite, ad basin calycis subrotunds, caducissime. Calyx laxe urceolatus, 
parum compressus, magnus ¢ uncias longus, villosiusculus, bilabiatus. Zabiwn superius magnum, bilobum ; 
lobis latissimis, obtusissimis, sinu angusto disjunctis. Labinm inferius duplo brevius, trifidum; laciniis 
e lata basi lanceolatis, acutis; lateralibus sublunatis seu apice sursum flexis; intermedia recta. Corolla 
papilionacea, pallide e purpurascenti rosea. Vexillum obcordatum, reflexum, alis paulo brevius; ungue 
superne dilatato; ale oblong, obtuse, anguste, apice parum adscendentes ; unguibus denticulato- sursum 
flexo-acutis. Oarina longitudine alarum, illis latior, antice adscendens, obtusa, apice et basi bifida. Fila- 
menta decem, coalita in cylindrum integrum pro germine increscente superne rumpentem, superne libera. 
Authers ovate, incumbentes. Germen lineare, pubescens. Stylus filiformis, villis longiusculis preditus. 
Stigma simplex. Legumina nobis non visa, ideoque differentia nostra specifica illis notis melius tradenda, 
distincta tamen species et potius Glycinis quam Dolichos, etsi stylus pubescens, calyce autem ex yexillo 
callis destituto ab his differt.’’ 
3. C. turgida, Grah. in Wall. Cat. n. 5534; glaber; foliolis ovato-rhomboideis acutis v. ovali- 
oblongis retusis; leguminibus turgidis latitudine triplo longioribus; seminibus 4-5.— Viti Islands 
(U. S. Expl. Exped.), Also collected in the Samoan, Tongan, Society, and Magsi Islands, 
The above description is taken from an authentic though imperfect specimen without flowers, pre- 
served at the British Museum, 
A fourth species of this genus, C. galeata, Gaud, (O. Gaudichaudii, Endl., O. pubescens, Hook. et Arn., 
Dolichos galeatus, Gaud.), is indigenous to the Hawaiian Islands. 
X, Mucuna, Adans. Fam. vol. ii, p. 325; Endl. Gen. n. 6665; Benth. Fl. Austr, vol. ii. p. 254, 
Calyx campanulatus, 2-labiatus, labio superiore lato, integro v. emarginato, inferioris 3-fidi lobo 
medio longiore. Vexillum cordatum, ecallosum, alis et carine brevibus incumbens; alz oblongo- 
lineares, conniyentes, basi auriculis inter se coherentibus, carina e basi recta apice subfalcata, in 
rostrum acutum desinens. Stamina 10, alterna longiora, filamento vexillari libero 2-adelpha; antherz 
alternze oblongze, alternee ovate. Ovarium sessile, co-ovulatum, Stylus longus, tenuis, inferne 
pilosus, apice glaber; stigma minutum. Legumen indehiscens v. tandem 2-valve, lineare, oblongum 
v. ovatum, l—co-spermum, inter semina torosum, extus seepissime pilis prurientibus hirtum, intus 
isthmis cellulosis inter semina transversim oo-loculare. Semina rotunda, umbilico lineari zonata.— 
Suffrutices v. frutices, longe scandentes; foliis pinnatim 3-foliolatis, foliolis stipellatis; racemis axil- 
laribus elongatis (usque ad 30 ped. long.) v. brevibus, umbelliformibus, fructiferis seepe pendulis, legu- 
minum pilis sepe fragillimis cutem penetrantibus.—Cif¢a, Lour, Fl. Cochinch. 557. 
At the British Museum there are no specimens or drawings of the Tongan plant referred by Forster, 
with a mark of doubt, to Dolichos pruriens, Linn.; and it is impossible to guess what species he alluded 
to. Besides the two IMweuwnas enumerated below, only one has hitherto been collected in Polynesia, 
viz. AL, urens, DC., in the Sandwich Islands. 
1, M. (Zoophthalmum) platyphylla, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 443; fuivo-pubescens; foliolis 
magnis rotundis apiculatis subtus reticulatis sapra mox glabris; floribus cymosis viridulis ; legumi- 
nibus ovalibus plano-compressis transverse lamellosis, junioribus hispidissimis,—Ovalau and Viti 
Levu, at Rewa (U. 8S. Expl. Exped.) and Taviuni (Seemann! n. 120), Also collected in Tahiti 
(Banks and Solander!). 
This, rather than MZ. wrens, must be the species which Pickering found in the forests of Tabiti, as 
alluded to by A, Gray. 
9, M. (Stizolobium) gigantea, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 405; glabra v. subpilosa; foliolis ovatis 
y. ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, lateralibus obliquis; floribus corymbosis viridulis ; leguminibus crassis 
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