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poda, DC., Æ. quadrata, Schum. et Thonn., and Æ. sensitiva, 
Pal. de Beauy., a common East Indian plant, is found in Senegal 
and Guinea, extendiug also to Cordofan; and the American 
Æ. sensitiva, Sw., as well as an apparently new species, are in 
Heudelot's Senegambian collection. 
Sprengel, under the name of Smithia spicata, has described a 
presumed Senegambian plant, which must remain a puzzle 
until it has been seen by some more accurate botanist. No 
true Smithia has as yet been found to our knowledge in Western 
Africa, athough one species (Kotschya Africana, Endl.) is a 
native of Upper Egypt. 
l. Uraria picta, Desv., DC. Prod. 2. p. 324.—Cape Palmas 
and Quorra River, at Addanda, Vogel; St. Thomas, Don.— 
A common East Indian species, also recorded as a native of 
Guinea by Schumacher and Thonning, whose plant is erro- 
neously referred by Walpers to Desmodium. 
- Desmodium (Pleurolobium) oxybracteatum, DC. Prod. 2. p. 
334 ?—D. grande,» E. Mey. Comm. Pl. Afr. Austr. p. 124. 
—D. paleaceum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. p. 209.—Abóh, 
Vogel; Senegambia; also S. East Africa, Madagascar and 
Mauritius. Vogel’s specimens closely resemble the eastern 
ones, Heudelot’s are rather less vigorous, but all appear to 
belong to one species, varying very much in the hairiness of 
the fruit, as is the case with so many Desmodia. 
?. Desmodium (Chalarium) latifolium, DC. Prod. 2. p..328.— 
D. lasiocarpum, DC. l. c.—Hedysarum deltoideum, Schum. et 
Thonn. Beskr. p. 361.—Accra and Quorra River, Vogel; 
St. Thomas, Don ; Senegambia and Guinea. A very common 
East Indian plant extending as far as the Philippine Islands. 
3. Desmodium (Heteroloma) Mauritianum, DC. Prod. 2. p. 
334.—H. fruticulosum, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 363.— 
D. linearifolium, D. ramosissimum et D. tenue? G. Don, 
Gard. Dict. 2. p. 294.—St. Thomas and Sierra Leone, Don ; 
Grand Bassa, Cape Palmas, &c., Vogel.—A. Mauritius plant, 
extending probably all across the African continent. 
4. Desmodium (Heteroloma) incanum, DC. Prod. 2. p. 332.— 
D. sparsiflorum, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 2. p. 294.— Sierra 
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