56 FLORA VITIENSIS, 
floribus in racemos v. paniculas terminales rarius in umbellas v. cymas axillares dispositis, purpureis 
ceruleis roseis v. albis.—JNicolsonia, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 325. Dicerma, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 339, 
: Dendrolobium, Wight et Arn. Prodr. p. 225. 
Besides the two Desmadia enumerated below, there are in Polynesia four other species, viz. D. Sand- 
wichense, E. Meyer, from the Hawaiian Islands (Barclay! Seemann!); D. varians, Endl. (Hedysarum 
varians, Labill. Sert. A. Caled. t. 71), from New Caledonia; D. Scorpiurus, Desv., from Tahiti; and D. 
Andersoni (sp. nov.), Seem. in Herb. Mus. Brit. ; fruticosum; ramulis novellis puberulis; foliis 3-foliolatis, 
foliolis petiolulatis ovatis v. ellipticis acuminatis basi acutis integerrimis coriaceis glabris ; stipulis triangu- 
laribus striatis mox deciduis; stipellis nullis (v. caducis?); floribus ignotis; staminibus 10, diadelphis, 
glabris; leguminis longe stipitati articulis 4-6 ellipticis compressis reticulato-venosis puberulis.—New 
Caledonia (W. Anderson! in Herb. Mus. Brit). The specimen, collected in Captain Cook's second 
Voyage, has no flowers, but I found a few old stamens; and in Mr. Bentham's opinion it belongs to a 
genuine and new species of Desmodium. 
]. D. umbellatum, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 325; fruticosum ; ramulis foliisque junioribus sericeo- 
pubescentibus; foliolis 3 ovatis v. ovali-oblongis obtusis v. rarius subacutis, supra glabris v. sub- 
glabris, subtus pubescentibus v. sericeo-pubescentibus, venis primariis prominulis; stipulis deciduis ; 
umbellis axillaribus ; floribus albidis; bracteis deciduis, bracteolis persistentibus ; calyce sericeo, lobis 
acutis, vexillo rotundato; leguminis articulis 3—4 subcarnosis indehiscentibus.— D. australis, DC. 
Prodr. vol. ii. p. 326. Hedysarum umbellatum, Linn. Spec. 1053; Forst. Prodr. n. 274. H. aus- 
trale, Willd. Spec. vol. iii. p. 1185. Ormocarpum oblongum, Desv. in Ann. Soc. Linn. 1825, p. 307. 
— Common on the seabeach (Seemann! n. 109; Barclay!). Also collected in the Tongan (U. S. 
Expl. Exped.) and Samoan Islands (Sir E. Home !), Eromanga (M‘Gillivray !), Tana (Forster !), and 
New Caledonia (Anderson! Forster!). Diffused over tropical New Holland and the East Indies. 
2. D. polycarpum, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 334; herbaceum v. suffruticosum, pubescens, pilis 
adpressis v. patentibus; foliolis 3 ovatis v. ellipticis, terminali majore; stipulis striatis acuminatis ; 
racemis terminalibus, densis, simplicibus v. subpaniculatis, bracteis late lanceolatis imbricatis mox 
deciduis; floribus purpureis, leguminis hirsuti v. glabri articulis 4—6 compressis scepe dehiscentibus. 
—Benth. Fl. Austr. vol. ii. p. 235; Wight et Arn. Prodr. p. 227; Wight, Icon. t. 400. D. hetero- 
carpum, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 337. D. capitatum, DC. l.c. p. 336. D. angulatum, DC. 1l. c. p. 335. 
D. tenue, Grah. in Wall. Cat. n. 5730. D. serpens, Wall. Cat. n. 5733. D. purpureum, Hook. et 
Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 62. D. siliquosum, DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 336. D. Hippocrepis, DC. 1. c. p. 338? 
D. acrocarpum, Hance, in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. vol. vii. p. 414. Hedysarum heterocarpum, 
Linn. Spec. p. 1054. H. polycarpum, Lam. Ill. t. 628. H. capitatum, Burm. Ind. p. 167. t. 54. f. 1. 
H. conicum, Poir. Enc. Méth. vol. vi. p. 419. H. siliquosum, Burm. Ind. p. 169. t. 55. f. 2. H. pur- 
pureum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 358. H. tuberculosum, Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 72. Hippo- 
`- crepis barbata, Lour. Fl. Cochin. ed. Willd. p. 553.—Common in cultivated and waste places all over 
the Viti group (Seemann! n. 111; U.S. Expl. Exped.). Also collected in the Marquesas (Barclay!) 
and Society Islands (Banks and Solander! Forster! Barclay!). Diffused over tropical Australia, the 
East Indies, and the Indian Archipelago. 
VI. Uraria, Desv. in Journ. Bot. vol. iii. p. 122. t. 5. f. 19; Endl. Gen. n. 6610; Benth. 
Fl. Austr. vol. ii. p. 236. Calyx profunde bilabiatus, labio superiore 2-fido, inferiore 3-partito, 
fructifer haud mutatus. Vexillum obovatum v. orbiculatum; ale oblongs, transversim rugose, 
carina obtusa. Stamina 10, filamento vexillari libero diadelpha; anthere conformes. Ovarium 
sessile v. subsessile, 2—oc-ovulatum. Stylus adscendens, sursum incrassatus ; stigma terminale, 
capitatum. Legumen subsessile, articulis 2-6 ovatis plicato-refractis, intra calycem nidulantibus, 
l-spermis. Semina compresso-reniformia.— Herb: v. suffrutices; folis pinnatim 3—7 -foliolatis, 
rarius 1-foliolatis, foliolis prominule reticulatis stipellatis; stipulis liberis acuminatis striatis; race- 
mis terminalibus latis v. subspicatis; floribus purpureis v. flavis resupinatis ; bracteis latis acuminatis ; 
bracteolis nullis. 
> 
