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examination of the type by Doctor Gagnepain shows that it is 

 identical with Roxburgh's species. Prain ^° thought that Lou- 

 reiro's description did not apply sufficiently closely to Derris 

 uliginosa to warrant reducing Loureiro's species to the latter. 

 The examination of the type by Doctor Gagnepain, however, 

 definitely settles this matter; and Loureiro's name, being the 

 older, should be retained for this very common, characteristic, 

 and widely distributed species. It occurs typically along the 

 margins of tidal streams more or less subject to the influence 

 of brackish or salt water, from tropical East Africa through 

 India to southern China and Formosa, southward through Ma- 

 laya to tropical Australia and Polynesia. 



DUNBARIA Wight and Arnott 



DUNBARIA ROTUNDIFOLIA (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Indifjofcra rotundifolia Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 458. 



Dolichos conspersus Grab, in Wall. Cat. (1831-32) No. 3342, nomen 



nudum. 

 Dunbaria conspersa Bentb. in Miq. PI. Jungb. (1852) 242. 

 Dunbaria punctata Bentb. 1. c. 

 Dolichos punctatus Wigbt & Arn. Prodr. (1834) 237. 



Loureiro's type was from the vicinity of Canton, and his 

 description applies closely to the species currently known as 

 Dunbaria conspersa Benth, except that the pods have more than 

 two seeds. No other leguminous species known from Kwang- 

 tung agrees at all with Loureiro's description, I have examined 

 the following Kwangtung specimens: Merrill 10146, Levine 1111, 

 334.5. Loureiro records the Cantonese name as o tain sin; that 

 recorded on one of Levine's specimens is chin tang, not very 

 different from Loureiro's name if the words be reversed. 



MUCUNA Adanson 



MUCUNA COCHINCHINENSIS (Lour.) A. Chev. in Bull. Agr. Inst. Sci. 

 Saigon 1 (1919) 91. 

 Marcanthus cochinchinensis Lour. Fl. Cocbinch. (1790) 461. 

 Carpopogon niveum Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 385. 

 Mucutia nivea Wigbt & Arn. Prodr. (1834) 255. 

 Stizolohium niveum O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 207. 



Kwangtung Province, Lin District, Levine 3283, with the local 

 name kau chau tau fang. 



Loureiro's material was from Cochin China, undoubtedly from 

 the vicinity of Hue where he resided most of the time while 



"Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66' (1898) 458. 



