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 22. ZORNIA Gmel. 



I. Z. diphylla Pers.j Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Bi it. Iinl. 2 (1876) 147. 

 (3787 Merrill) January. In open grass lands at 75 m. Cosmopolitan in the 

 Tropics. 



23. DESMODIUM Desv. 



1. D. capitatum (Burm.) DC; Baker, I. c. 170. 



(Whit ford) September. In open wet lands, widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. British India and Malaya. 



2. D. gangeticum (Linn.) DC; Baker 1. c. 168. 



(40(5 Whitford) June; (6852 Elmer) November; (3104 Merrill) October. In 

 open thickets below 75 m. Widely distributed in the Philippines. Tropical 

 Asia, Africa, and Malaya. 



3. D. latifolium DC; Baker, I. c. (?) 



(2231 Meyer) December. In open lands and borders of thickets below 75 m., 

 distribution of the preceding. 



4. D. laxiflorum DC; Baker 1. c. 104. 



(2218 Meyer) December. With the preceding. Tropical Asia and Malaya. 



5. D. polycarpum DC. var. ovalifolia (Wall.) Brain in King Mat. Fl. Malay. 

 Benin. 2 ( 1K!>7) 141. 



1227 Whitford) May ; (3115 Meyer) May. On exposed ridges above 1,000 m. 

 Malayan Peninsula and Sumatra. 



0. D. pulchellum (Linn.) Benth.j Baker 1. c. 102. 



(3310 Merrill) October; (202 Vopeland) January; (2185 Meyer) December. 

 Abundant in open places below 75 m., common and widely distributed in the Phil- 

 ippines. Tropical Asia and Malaya. 



7. D. scorpiurus Deaf. Journ. Hot. 1 (1813) 122. (?) 

 (3101 Merrill) October. In waste places below 50 m. 



The above specimen agrees with No. 385 Merrill, so identified by Perkins, but 

 there appears to be some doubt as to the correctness of the identification. Desmo- 

 dium soorpiurua Deaf., is a native of the W 7 est Indies. 



8. D. triflorum (Linn.) DC; Baker, 1. c. 173. 



(Whitford) June. In open grass lands below 75 m., widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. Cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 



9. D. umbellatum (Linn.) DC; Baker, 1. c. 101. 



(2020 Borden) October. A shrub on the seashore, widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. Tropical Asia, Malaya, and Polynesia. 



24. ALYSCICARPUS Neck. 



1. A. vaginalis (Linn.) DC; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1870) 158. 



(407 Whitford\ dune; (6778 Elmer) November; (3091 Merrill) October. Com- 

 mon in open grass lands below 75 m.. widely distributed in the Philippines. Trop- 

 ical Asia, Africa and .Malaya, introduced in America. 



35. PHYLACIUM Benn. 



1. P. bracteosum Benn. PI. .lav. Bar. (1840) 150. /. .U. 



(2734 Borden) March; (6701 Elmer) November; (295 Copeland) January; 

 (3777 Merrill) January. Abundant in thickets along the river below 150 m.. 

 widely distributed in the Philippines. Malaya. 



26. DALBERGIA Linn. f. 



1. D. ferruginea Roxb.j Prain. Ann. Bot. Card. Calcutta 10 (1904) 101. pi. 8G. 

 (90 Whitford) April; (2493 Merrill) June; (0028 Lcibery) July. Abundant 

 in thickets below 100 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. Malaya. 



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