304 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
e 
Leone and St. Thomas, Don; Fernando Po, Vogel.—A 
common American species, said to be found,also in the 
Mauritius 
. Desmodium (Heteroloma) ozalidifolium, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 
2. p. 295.—St. Thomas, Don; sandy shores of the Nun 
River, near the sea, Vogel. — . : 
Caules e basi radicante 1-2-pedales, prostrati, graciles, apicibus 
adscendentibus, parce subsericeo-pilosi. Sfipule 3 lin. longs, 
persistentes, lanceolatz, setaceo-acuminate. Petioli }-1 poll. 
longi. Foliola late obovato-orbiculata, 1-1}-pollicaria, mem- 
branacea, pallide viridea, supra sparse puberula. Pedunculi 
terminales, elongati, pauciflori, pedicellis subgeminis filifor- 
mibus semipollicaribus. Bractee lanceolate setaceo-acuml- 
nate. Flores 2 lin. longi. Calyx pubescens, profunde par- 
titus, segmentis subulatis. Legumen pollicare, articulis 
4-5 longioribus quam latis, hine fere rectis, illinc convexis 
faciebus planis glochidiato-pubescentibus. 
Apparently allied to D. cespititium, DC., and closely re- 
sembling a Javanese species. 
Besides the above, there are three described Desmodia from 
W. Tropical Africa, viz.: D. lanceolatum, Schum. et Thonn, 
from Guinea, D. ovalifolium, Guill. et Perr., and D. terminale, 
Guill. et Perr. (referred by Webb to the common W. Indian 
D. tortuosum), both from Senegambia, and a fourth apparently 
new one in Heudelot’s collection. 
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Nicholsonia reptans, Meissn. Linnea, 21. p. 260.—Des- 
modium triflorum, DC. Prod. 2. p. 334-—D. Bullamense, 
G. Don, Gard. Dict. 2. p. 294.—Hedysarum granulatum, 
Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 869.— Accra, Vogel.—A very 
common weed in hot damp climates within the Tropics, both 
of the New and the Old World. Meissner is quite right 1n 
transferring it from Desmodium to Nicholsonia, to which 
genus belong four or five other E. Indian and Mauritius 
species published as Desmodia. 
. Alysicarpus vaginalis, DC. Prod. 2. p. 358.— Stirling, at the 
confluence, Ansell; also Senegal, Cordofan, and very abun- 
dant in East India, as far as the Philippine Islands. 
