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Widely spread in tropical Asia eastward to China and the 
Philippine islands, aud in the Mascarene islands. 
Desmodium oblongum, Wall.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 166.—Shan 
hills plateau at 4000 feet. 
Previously only known to us from the Laong-dong mountains in 
Burma. 
The present specimen in very young flower differs from the 
type in being nearly glabrous, and in the unbranched in- 
florescence. 
Desmodium floribundum, G. Don; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 167.— 
Shan hills terai at 2000 feet. 
North India, from the Punjab to Khasia. 
Desmodium latifolium, DC.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 168; Forest 
Fl. Burma, i. p. 385.—Shan hills terai. 
Tropical Asia, eastward to the Philippine islands, and in 
tropical Africa. 
Uraria lagopoides, DC., var. racemis elongatis distincte pe- 
duneulatis gracilioribus ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 156.—Shan hills 
at 4000 feet. 
Tropical Asia, eastward to South China, Polynesia and Aus- 
tralia. 
Uraria hamosa, Wall.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 156.—Meiktila. 
India and Malaya, eastward to Central China. 
NEOCOLLETIA, Hemsl. 
(Hedysarearum novum genus Phylacium proximum.) 
Calyx tubulosus, 15-nervis, subæqualiter 5-lobatus, lobis bre- 
vissimis rotundatis. Vexillum suborbiculatum, inappendieulatum ; 
ale libere, oblongæ, calcaratæ; carina recta, obtusissima. Sta- 
men vexilare liberum, cetera connata; anthere uniformes. 
Ovarium sessile, uniovulatum ; stylus inflexus. Legumen igno- 
tum.— Herba gracillima, longe repens, radicans. Folia pinnatim 
trifoliolata ; stipule rigid, striate, persistentes. Flores minimi, 
ad axillas foliorum solitarii, vel 2-3 aggregati, longe graciliterque , 
peduneulati, juxta calycem bibracteolati; pedunculus bractea 
insigni stipitata selleformi complicata calyeem amplectenti in- 
structus. 
