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The generic name Donia G. Don, has page priority over Clianthus, both genera 
having been published in the same work; the latter is retained in accordance 
with the list of nomina conservanda of the Vienna Botanical Congress. 
42. ORMOCARPUM DC. 
1. Ormocarpum cochinchinense (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Diphaca cochinchinensis Lour. F]. Cochinch. (1790) 454. 
Hedysarum sennoides Willd. Sp. Pl. 3 (1800) 1207. 
Ormocarpum sennoides DC. Prodr, 2 (1825) 315; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 2 (1876) 152; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 60; Vidal Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. 
(1886) 106; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 17. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 5631 Klemme: Province of Ilocos 
Norte, For, Bur. 138956 Merritt & Darling. 
India, Ceylon, tropical Africa; Siam, southern China, Malaya to northern 
Australia and Polynesia. 
Ormocarpum DC. (1825) is antedated by Diphaca Lour. (1790), so far as 
the generic name is concerned, but the former is in the list of nomina conservanda 
of the Vienna Botanical Congress, and is here retained, although necessitating a 
change in the specific name according to strict priority. Loureiro cites Rumphius’ 
Herbarium Amboinense, 3 (1743) 200, ¢. 128, but the figure apparently represents 
Ormocarpum glabrum T. & B. rather than O. cochinchinense. O. Kuntze® has . 
taken up Rumphius’ name Solulus for the species generally known as Ormocarpum, 
but this is inadmissable under all generally accepted rules. 
43, AESCHYNOMENE Linn. 
1, Aeschynomene indica Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) 713; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. 
Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 151; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 107, Rev. Pl. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 106. 
Aeschynomene aspera Vogel in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur, 19 (1843) Suppl. 
1: 26, non Linn. 
Aeschynomene roxburghii Spreng.; Llanos Fragm. (1851) 83. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Merrill 4235; Manila, Merrill 3410, Hernandez 
49: Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 1423 Ramos. PortLtio, Bur. Sei. 9024 Robinson. 
A common and widely distributed weed in wet lands, rice paddies, etc.; widely 
distributed in the tropics, especially in the Old World. 
I have seen the Philippine specimen in the Berlin Herbarium determined by 
Vogel as A. aspera, and consider it to be rather A. indica. 
44. SMITHIA Ait. 
Calyx rigid, its veins close, parallel, simple, its lips acute, with few scattered 
STR TROWCRS FOUN aise ckigoccccceedinnntinns coe ts saves scctesenesenee 1, S. sensitiva 
Calyx membranaceous, its veins sot close and parallel, anastomosing, the upper 
lip truneate, very broad, prominently ciliate- -bristly; flowers pale-blue. 
2. 8. ciliata 
1. Smithia sensitiva Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 (1789) 496; DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 
323; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 148; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. 
(1904) 18. 
Damapana sensitiva O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 179. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Williams 969, 1277, Bur. Sci. 5533, 5928 Ramos, 
“8 Rey. Gen. Pl. (1891) 205. 
