270 LEGUMINOSAE. 
1. Brya nicaraguensis, CErst. in Vidensk. Meddel. 1853, p. 13. 
Nicaraaua, Volcan el Viejo, at 2000 feet, and Segovia ((rsted). 
: 36. ORMOCARPUM. 
Ormocarpum, Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. i. p. 95, t. 58; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p. 515. 
About six or eight shrubby species, one of which has a wide range in Tropical 
Africa, Asia, and Australia; two others are found in Tropical Africa ; and the Mexican 
species may possibly belong to a distinct genus. | 
1. Ormocarpum coccineum, Don, Gen. Syst. ii. p. 279. 
MEXIco. 
2. Ormocarpum elegans, Don, Gen. Syst. ii. p. 279. 
Mexico. 
8. Ormocarpum thurberi, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. i. p. 515. 
Daubentonia thurberi, A. Gray in Mem. Amer. Acad. v. p. 313. 
Norte Mexico, Sonora (Thurber, 429). Hb. Kew. 
4. Ormocarpum, ?sp. 
Mexico (Sumichrast). Hb. Kew. 
87. ESCHYNOMENE. 
Aischynomene, Linn, Gen. Plant. n. 888; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. i. p- 515. 
About thirty (or more) herbaceous and shrubby, or occasionally almost arborescent, 
species, some of them having a very wide range of distribution. Two are Australian, 
two East-Indian, eighteen Tropical-African, and a considerable number American. 
1. Aischynomene americana, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1016; Sloane, Jamaica, i. t. 118. 
fig. 3. | 
Nort Mexico, San Luis Potosi to Tampico (Palmer, 1050); Soura Mextco, Papantla 
(Schiede & Deppe), Orizaba (Botteri, 664, 665; Bourgeau, 3317, 3277, 3169), Jalisco 
(Beechey), Acapulco (Sinclair), Yucatan (Linden, 1343), Mirador (Linden, 1316), Vera 
Cruz (Galeotti, 3269), valley of Cordova (Bourgeau, 17 06) ; GUATEMALA, Mazatenango 
(Bernoulli, 1181); Nicaragua, Volcan el Viejo (Grsted), Realejo (Hinds), near Granada 
(Levy, 391); Costa Rica, Aguacate and Puntarenas (Cirsted); Panama, Chagres 
(Fendler, 97), without localities (Seemann, 456; 8. Hayes, 274).—Very common in 
the West Inpins and many parts of Tropical America. Hb. Kew. 
It is probable that several of the forms described as species by different authors and 
enumerated below will be found under this in Kew Herbarium. 
2. Aischynomene brasiliana, DC. Prodr. ii. p. 322. 
Aischynomene paucijuga, DC. 
