76 MEllRILI.. 



The generic name Donia G. Don, has page priority over Cliantlttis, both genera 

 liaving been published in the same work; the latter is retained in accordance 

 with the list of nomina conservanda of the Vienna Botanical Congress. 



42. ORMOCARPUM DC. 



1. Ormocarpum cochinchinense (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Diphaca cochinchinen>iis Lour. Fl. Cochincli. (1790) 454. 



Hcdysarum sennoides Willd. Sp. PI. 3 (1800) 1207. 



Ormocarpum sennoides DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 315; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 2 (1876) 152; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 60; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 

 (1886) 106; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 17. 



Lrzox. Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 5631 Klemme : Province of Ilocos 

 Norte, For. Bur. 1395G Merritt cC- Darling. 



India, Ceylon, tropical Africa; Siam, southern China, Malaya to northern 

 Australia and Polynesia. 



Ormocarpum DC. (1825) is antedated by Diphaca Lour. (1790), so far as 

 the generic name is concerned, but the former is in the list of nomina conservanda 

 of the Vienna Botanical Congress, and is here retained, although necessitating a 

 change in the specific name according to strict priority. Loureiro cites Rumphius' 

 Herbarium Amboinense, 3 (1743) 200, t. 128, but the figure apparently represents 

 Ormocarpum glahrum T. & B. rather than 0. cochinchinense. 0. Kuntze " has 

 taken up Rumphius' name Solulus for the species generally known as Ormocarpum, 

 but this is inadmissable under all generally accepted rules. 



43. AESCHYNOMENE Linn. 



]. Aeschynomene indica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 713; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 151; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 107, Rev. PI. Vase. 

 Filip. (1886) 106. 



Aeschynomene aspera Vogel in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 

 1 : 26, non Linn. 



Aeschynomene roxhurghii Spreng. ; Llanos Fragm. (1851) 83. 



Lrzox. Pi-ovince of Pampanga, Merrill 1/235: Manila, Merrill SlflO, Hernandez 

 'fO : Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 11/23 Ramos. Polillo, Bur. Sci. 9021/ Robinson. 



A common and widely distributed weed in wet lands, rice paddies, etc. ; widely 

 distributed in the tropics, especially in the Old World. 



I have seen the Philippine specimen in the Berlin Herbarium determined by 

 Vogel as A. aspera, and consider it to be rather A. indica. 



44. SMITHIA Ait. 



Calyx rigid, its veins close, parallel, simple, its lips acute, with few scattered 



hairs; flowers yellow 1. 8. sensitiva 



CslIvx membranaceous, its veins not close and parallel, anastomosing, the upper 

 lip truncate, very broad, prominently ciliate-bristly; flowers pale-blue. 



2. 8. ciliata 

 1. Smithia sensitiva Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 (1789) 496; DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 

 323; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1870) 148; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. 

 (1904) 18. 



Damapanu sensitiva O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 179. 



Luzon, Province of Benguet, Williams 960, 1217, Bur. Sci. 5533, 5928 Ramos, 



"Rev. Gen. I'l. dS!)!) 205. 



