174 46. LEGUHINOS^: : PAPILIONACEiE. 



12. Desmodium lutescens, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 326. 

 Hedysarum lutescens, Poir. in Lam. Encycl. vi. p. 417. 

 Zornia lutescens, Steud. Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2. ii. p. 900. 

 China (ex Poiret). 



Poiret gives a full description of this species ; yet we have 

 not succeeded, in identifying it with any that we have seen. 

 De Candolle ascribes the name under Desmodium to Desvaux ; 

 but it is not mentioned by the latter in the place cited by the 

 former. 



13. Desmodium oblatum, Baker in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. 

 xlii. 2, p. 230, et in Hook.f. PI. Brit, Bid. ii. p. 166. 



South- west China (Bourne !). Herb. Kew. 

 Birma, Malacca. 



14. Desmodium Oldhami, Oliv. in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. p. 165 ; 

 Ranee in Journ. Bot. 1874, p. 259 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. -m. 

 p. 442. 



N.E. China : Moukden to Kirin (James !) ; Kiangsi : Kiu- 

 kiang (Shearer !). Herb. Kew. 

 Japan. 



15. Desmodium parvifolium, DC. in Ann. Sc. Nat. iv. 1825, 

 p. 100, et in Prodr. ii. p. 334 ; Baker in Hook.f. PI. Brit. Ind. 

 ii. p. 174 ; Miq. Journ. de Bot. Ne'erl. i. p. 122 ; Benth. PI. 

 Hongk. p. 84. 



Desmodium microphyllum, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 337 ; Maxim, in Mel. 

 Biol. xii. p. 445; Franchet, PI. David, p. 94. 



Kiangsi : Kiukiaug (David, 895) ; Fokien : Amoy (Fortune, 

 118! Swinhoel); Hupeh : Ichang (A. Henry !). Mus. Brit.; 

 Herb. Kew. 



Widely spread in India and Malaya, and extending eastward to 

 Japan. 



16. Desmodium podocarpum, DC. in Ann, Sc. Nat. iv. 1825, 

 p. 102, et Prodr. ii. p. 336 ; Baker in Hook.f. PI. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 p. 165 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. xii. p. 440, non Hook, et Am. 



N.E. China: Moukden to Kirin (James I); Kiangsu: 

 S\xanghai(Maingay ! Tonnerre !) ; Kiangsi : Kiukiang (Shearer !); 

 Hupeh : Ichang (A. Henry !) ; Kwangtung : Lofaushan (Ford !); 

 Cobea: Gensan (Perry I) \ Luchu Aechipelago (Wright I). 

 Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



North India, Mandshuria, and Japan. 



