Leffuminoscs.'] ceyion plants. 87 



Yar. ^. cauUbus supemc villosis ; hracteis lanceolatis, nee longe acu- 

 minatis.— c.p, 3512. 



Hab, Central Province, up to an elevation of 5000 feet. 



5. D. ferrugineum, Wall. Cat. 5732 A. — D. rufescens, W. et A,, 



L c. 228 (non De Candolle) ; AViglit, Icones, t. 984.— c.r. 1426. 

 Hab. Central Province^ up to an elevation of 4000 feet. 



This, nice the preceding species, varies much in the amount of puhcscence upon 

 the several parts, as "well as iu the relative length of the acumen of the bracteaj, 



6. D. ^yrans, DC. (W. et A., 1. c. 227, cum syn. ; Wight, Icoucs, 

 t. 294.)— c.p. 1430. 



' Has. Central Province, up to an elevation of 3000 feet, 



7. D. gyroides, DC. (W, et A., 1. c.)— c.p, 3326. 



Hab. Pusalawa, in the Central Province, according to the statement 

 . of the Plant Collector, but I have never seen it truly wild in the 

 island. 



8. D- latifolium, DC. (W. et A., 1. c. 225, cumsyn. ; Wight, Icones, 



t. 270, 272.)— c.p. 3588, ^ . 



Hab. Near Bibili, in the BaduUa District. 



9. D. Wightii, Gr. (W, et A., 1. c. 226 ; Am, Pug. p. 13, 331.) 



c.p. 3129. 



Hab. Abundant in the warmer parts of the island, up to an eleva- 

 tion of 1500 feet. 



10. D. ormocarpoides, DC- 



Hab. Ceylon, Gardner {Kb. HooTc). 



11. D. podocarpum, DC. Prod. i. 336 (non Hook, et Am.)— c.p. 1434. 

 Hab. Central Province, up to an elevation of 4000 feet, 



Tlores parvi, albidi. 



12. D. strangulatum, W. et A., 1. c. 228 ; Wight, Icones, t. 985 



c.p. 1433. 



Var, ^. m«or; caule tSUoso ; foliis rotundato-rhomboidcis, obtusis, 

 minute apiculatis, lateralibus vix obHquis; stipuUs villosis; Jloribus 

 multo minoribus ; leguminibus articulis minus constrictis. — C.p. 3329. 

 An species distincta ? 



Floras (var. a) aurantiaco-rubri, 



Desmodium Walkeri, Am. Pug. p. 13, 331, c.P. 2973, appears to be identical 

 with De Candolle's i:)esm, cajan^olium, and can scarcely have any cldm to be con- 

 sidered indigenous to Ceylon, 



22, PSEUDARTHRIA, W. et A. 



I- P- viscida, W. et A. Prod. i. 209, cum syn. ; Wight, Icones, 

 t 286.— c,p, 1432. 

 Hab. Common un to an elevation of 3000 feet. 



23, ALYSICARPUS, Neck. 



(Nom. vernac. "Aswenna.") 



■C.P. 1428, 



1. A. vaginalis, DC. (Walp. Ann. iv. 548, cum syn., 

 Hab. Abundant up to an elevation of 3000 feet. 



2. A. bupleurifolius. DC. (W, et A. Prod, i, 233, cum syn.)— CP* 



1427. ' 



