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Note 756 — I.—PHÆNOGAMOUS OR FLOWERING PLANTS. (continued 6)

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The name of the genus, from ϕύσα, a bladder, was formed under the notion that this appendage is hollow, which is not the fact.—Mucuna cylindrosperma Welwitsch, from Angola, is probably the same plant. See Holmes, Pharm. J. ix. (1879) 913.

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