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A niediuin-si/.ed or large troe witli iicarlv gluhroiis loaves ami axillary 

 racemes of white flowers, 10 to 15 cm. long. Branches grayish brown, 

 glabrous. Leaves alternate, 15 to 20 cm. long, the rhacliis glabrous; leaflets 

 lanceolate-ovate, acuminate, alternate, 5 to 9 cm. long. 2 to 3.5 cm. wide, 

 the base inequilateral, on one side rounded, on the other acute, the apex 

 blunt acuminate, glabrous above, sparingly pubescent beneath; nerves 8 

 or 10 on each side of the midrib, spreading, anastomosing, the reticulations 

 lax; petiolules glabrous, 2 to 3 mm. long. Racemes rather densely flowered, 

 the rhachis and pedicels more or less pubescent, the latter 5 to 6 mm. long. 

 Sepals 4, reflexed, ovate, acute, 4 mm. long, 2.5 to 3 mm. wide. Stamens 

 10, the filaments 7 mm. long. Ovary densely hirsute-pilose, 2-ovuled; style 

 glabrous, 2 mm. long. Pod oblong, compressed, 3 to 4 cm. long, 1.5 to 2 cm. 

 wide, densely ferruginous pubescent. Seed usually solitary, compressed, 

 4 mm. in diameter, dark, shining. 



This species is represented by Nos. 2661 and 2908 Ahern's collector, 

 Bosoboso, Province of Rizal, Luzon, February, 1905, and the above descrip- 

 tion is here given to supplement that of Blanco, which is the only descrip- 

 tion of the species previouslj' published, and which is imperfect in many 

 details. 



Desmodium quinquepetalum (Blanco) Cytisns quinquepetalus Blanco, 

 Fl. Filip. ed. 1, 59S. 1837, Cajanus quinquepetalus Blanco, 1. c, 

 ed. 2, 417. 1845; ed. 3, 2:397. Desmodium cephalotes F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. 61. 1880; Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 27:38. 1905, non Wall. 

 ^ Dendrolobium. 

 A shrub 2 to 4 m. high with trifoliate leaves, the leaflets broadly lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, strongly veined beneath, axillary and terminal racemose 

 panicles, the flowers disposed in small umbels at the apices of the short 

 branches, and fulvous pubescent 6 to 7 jointed pods 3 to 4 em. long. 

 Branches slender, brown or light gi'ay, glabrous, lentieellate, the branchlets 

 somewhat pubescent. Leaves alternate, the rhachis pubescent, becoming 

 glabrous, the j^etiole 1 to 1.5 cm. long, swollen at the base; stipels lanceo- 

 late-subulate, about 2 mm. long; leaflets submembranous, 3 to 7 cm. long, 

 1 to 3 cm. wide, acuminate, narrowed somewhat below to the acute or 

 rounded base, glabrous and shining above, paler beneath and pubescent with 

 appressed or spreading soft white hairs, but not densely so; nerves rather 

 obscure above, very prominent beneath, ascending, about 9 on each side 

 of the midrib; petiolules pubescent, about 2 mm. long. Inflorescence of 

 narrow, pubescent, racemose axillary and terminal panicles 5 to 7 cm. long, 

 the branchlets very short, each terminated by from 3 to 8 flowers umbel- 

 lately disposed. Flowers white, about 1.8 cm. long, the pedicels densely 

 pubescent, 5 or 6 mm. long, the calyx subtended by two opposite, deciduous, 

 ciliate. ovate, bracteoles about 2 mm. long. Calyx appressed fulvous pubes- 

 cent, 4-lobed, the tube about 4,5 mm. long, scarcely narrowed below, the 

 lobes reflexed, broadly lanceolate, subequal, short acuminate, 5 mm, long. 

 Corolla white, the standard elliptical, tlie apex rounded, retuse, 1.7 cm. 

 long, about 1 cm. wide, narrowed below to the slender claw; wings about 

 as long as the standard. 5 mm. wide, the claws long, slender; keel about 

 14 mm. lono-. incurved above, nearly 1 cm, wide (when spread). Anthers 



