68 MERRILL. 



35. PSORALEA Linn. 



1. Psoralea badocana Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 416, ed. 3, 2: 395; 

 F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 58; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 107, Pvev. PI. 

 Vase. Filip. (1886) 105. 



Liparia badocana Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 597. 



Meladenia densiflora Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 2V (1848) 576. 



Luzon, Province of Abra, Bur. Sci. 7240 Ramos: District of Bontoc, Bur. Sci. 

 7011 Ramos: Province of Ilocos Sur, Cuming 11^9 : Province of Ilocos Norte, 

 Bur. Sci. 2234 M earns: Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. 4907 Ramos. Pan at, 

 (Cuming 1649). 



Endemic, 



3t). PAROSELA Cav. (Dalea Linn.) 



1. Parosela glandulosa (Blanco) comb. nov. 



Amorpha glandulosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 555. 



Dalea alopecuroides Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 389, ed. 3, 2: 351; F.-Vill. Nov. 

 App. (1880) 58, non Willd. 



Dalea nigra Mart. & Gal. in Bull. Acad. Brux. 10- (1843) 43; Rolfe in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 309; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 107, Rev. 

 PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 105; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 16. 



Dalea glandulosa Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 37, Philip. 

 Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 64. 



Parosela nigra Rose in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 10 (1906) 105. 



Luzox, Province of Abra, Bur. Sci. 7128 Ramos: Province of Ilocos Norte, 

 For. Bur. 15546 Merritt & Darling: Province of Benguet, Merrill 4351, For. Bur. 

 16226 Curran, Merritt, & Zschokke: Province of Union, Elmer 5601: Province of 

 Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. 4888 Ramos: Province of Bataan, Whitford s. n.: Province 

 of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 1844 Ramos, Merrill 1349, Hidalgo 366, Nieva 266. 



Native names: Agogo, sampaloc-sampalocan, chaang-parang (Rizal): duran- 

 parang, camangi, ex Blanco. 



A native of tropical America, introduced into the Philippines at an early date, 

 and now locally very abundant in many localities. First described from Philippine 

 material. 



The reasons for taking up the generic name Parosela for the species generally 

 known as Dalea are given by Rose, I. c, 8 (1903) 302, and the ease is not covered 

 by the list of nomina coiiservanda of the Vienna Botanical Congress. In con- 

 nection with Doctor Rose's argument, it may be well, perhaps, to call attention 

 to the fact that Dalea Gaertner (1788), antedates the restoration of the Linnean 

 Dalea, which was first taken up after the establishment of the binomial system 

 by Jussieu (1789) followed by Ventenat, Cramer, and Willdenow. According to 

 strict priority Dalea Gaertner is the oldest name for the plants usually placed in 

 the genus Microdon Choisy (1823), and as this case is not covered by the list of 

 nomina conservanda of the Vienna Botanical Congress, then according to the 

 principle of priority adopted by tiiat Congress, Dalea Gaertn. must displace 

 Microdon Choisy, and in thus becoming a "valid" genus must of necessity 

 invalidate the use of the same name for a ditferent genus. 



37. TEPHROSIA Pers. 



Pods about 8 cm long, densely covered witli rather long, brown hairs; leaflets 

 elliptic or narrowly elliptic, 3 to 4 cm long 1. T. vestita 



Pods 2 to 3.5 cm long, gray-puberulent or subglabrous; leaflets less than 2.5 cm 

 in length. 



