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22. ZORNIA Gmel. 



1. Z. diphylla Pers.; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Jnd. 2 (1876) 147. 

 (3787 MerriU) January. In open grass lands at 75 ni. Cosmopolitan in the 

 Tropics. 



23. DESMODIUM l)esv. 



1. D. capitatum (Bunn.) DC; Baker, 1. c. 170. 



(Whitford) Se]>teniber. In open wet lands, widely distributed in the Philip- 

 pines. Britisli India and Malaya. 



2. D. gangeticum (Linn.) DC; Baker 1. c. 108. 



(406 Whiff ord) June; (6852 Elmer) November; (3104 Merrill) October. In 

 open thickets below 75 ni. Widely distributed in the Philijipines. Tropical 

 Asia, Africa, and Malaya. 



3. D. latifolium DC; Baker, 1. c. (?) 



(2231 Meyer) December. In open lands and borders of tliickets l)elow 75 m., 

 distribution of the ])receding. 



4. D. laxiflorum DC; Baker I. c. 1G4. 



(2218 Meyer) December. ^Yitll the preceding. Tropical Asia and Malaya. 



5. D. polycarpum DC. var. ovalifolia (Wall.) Prain in King Mat. Fl. Malay. 

 Penin. 2 (1897) 141. 



(227 Whitford) May; (3115 Meyer) May. On exposed ridges above 1,000 m. 

 Malayan Peninsula and Sumatra. 



6. D. pulchellum (Linn.) Benth.; Baker 1. c. 162. 



(3310 Merrill) October; (292 Copeland) January; (2185 Meyer) December. 

 Abundant in open places below 75 m., common and widely distributed in the Phil- 

 ippines. Tropical Asia and Malaya. 



7. D. scorpiurus Desf. Journ. Bot. 1 (1813) 122. (?) 

 (3101 Merrill) October. In waste places below 50 m. 



The above specimen agrees with No. 385 Merrill, so identified by Perkins, but 

 there appears to be some doubt as to the correctness of the identification. Desnio- 

 diuni scorpiurus Desf., is a native of the West Indies. 



8. D. triflorum (Linn.) DC; Baker, 1. c. 173. 



{Whitford) Jime. In open grass lands below 75 m., widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. Cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 



9. D. umbellatum (Linn.) DC; Baker. 1. c. 161. 



(2026 Borden) October. A shrub on the seasliore, widely distributed in the 

 Philippines. Tropical Asia, Alalaya, and Polynesia. 



24. ALYSCICARPUS Neck. 



1. A. vaginalis (Linn.) DC; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 158. 



{407 Whitford) June; {Cu7S Elmer) November; (3091 Merrill) October. Com- 

 mon in open grass lands below 75 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. Trop- 

 ical Asia, Africa and ISIalaya, introduced in America. 



35. PHYLACIUM Benn. 



1. P. bracteosum Benn. PI. .lav. Rar. (1840) 159. t. 33. 



(2734 Borden) March; (6701 Elmer) November; (295 Copeland) January; 

 (3777 Merrill) January. Abundant in thickets along the river belo\v 150 m., 

 widely distributed in the Phili])|)ines. ^Malaya. 



26. DALBERGIA Linn. f. 



1. D. ferruginea Roxb.; Prain, Ann. Bot. Card. Calcutta 10 (1904) 101. i)l. 86. 

 (90 Whitford) April; (2493 Merrill) Jvme; (6028 Leiberg) July. Abundant 

 in thickets below 100 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. Malaya. 

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