19211 REIIDER, NEW SPECIES, VARIETIES AND COMBINATIONS 41 



Desmodium Franchetii, nom. nov. — D. cinerascens Franchet, PI. 



Delavay. 174 (1890), not A. Gray. 



Franchet's name for this species cannot stand on account of the 

 older D. cinerascens A. Gray (PL Wright n. 48 [1853]), a Mexican species 

 of the Sect. Heteroloma. Desmodium Franchetii seems most closely re- 

 lated to D. tiliaefolium G. Don, but differs according to Franchet's descrip- 

 tion chiefly in the smaller obtuse leaflets rounded at the base, in the del- 

 toid-lanceolate calyx-teeth as long or longer than the tube and in the 

 standard being somewhat longer than the wings. 



Desmodium spicatum, nom. nov. — D. tiliaefolium Craib in Sargent, 



PL Wilson ii. 104 (1914), not G. Don. — D. cinerascens Hutchinson in 

 Bot. Mag. cxlv. t. 8805 (1919), not Franchet nor A. Gray. 



As already pointed out by Mr. Hutchinson in the Botanical Maga- 

 zine the specimens of Desmodium from western Szech'uan referred to 

 D. tiliaefolium do not belong to that species, but his identification of the 

 plant from western Szech'uan with D. cinerascens Franchet does not seem 

 to be correct. Though I have not seen the type specimen of Franchet's 

 species, his description differs in several important characters, as in the 

 short-attenuate obtuse leaflets, in the terminal panicle with pubescent 

 branches, and in the calyx divided to the middle or below into deltoid- 

 lanceolate teeth. In D. spicatum the leaflets are not attenuate at the 

 apex, the inflorescence is an unbranched spike and the calyx-teeth are 



broadly ovate, shorter than the tube and subacute or obtuse; occasionally 

 the terminal spike may be augmented by lateral spikes at its base, but 

 these lateral spikes are in the axils of foliage leaves and do not form a 



part of the terminal spike proper. 



As stated by Mr. Hutchinson the plate in the Botanical Magazine 

 was prepared from material sent by Miss Willmott from Warley Place 

 and raised from Chinese seed collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson. He prob- 

 ably collected the seed in western Szech'uan in one of the localities where 

 he collected the species in flower under Nos. 2936, 2937 and 2940 of his 

 herbarium collection. The plant introduced by M. de Vilmorin in 1896 

 and distributed as D. cinerascens also represents D. spicatum, as speci- 

 mens show which I collected in 1911 in Vilmorin's Fruticetum at Les 

 Barres and in Chenault's nursery at Orleans. 



MISCELLANEOUS GENERA 



Pinus resinosa Sol. f. globosa, forma nova. 



A typo rccedit habitu humiliorc densa globosa, foliis paulo tenuioribus. 



Ilort. Mrs. George A. Carpenter, Wolfeboro, New Hampshire; her- 

 barium specimens collected March 23, 1921, and photographs of the 

 original plants preserved at the Arnold Arboretum. 



