88 MERRILL. 



211. Desmodium lasiocarpum (Beauv.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) .328. 



Hedysarum lasiocarpum Beaiiv. Fl. Oware & Benin 1 (1804) 32, t. 18; Poir. in 

 Lam. Encycl. Suppl. 5 (1817) 15. 



Hedysarum latifolium Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 57. 



Desmodium latifolium DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 328; Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 2 (1876) 168; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 62, excl. syn. Naves pi. 372; Vidal 

 Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 107. 



Hippocrepis mitUisiliquosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 584. 



Desmodium gangeticum Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 408, ed. 3, 2: 384, non DC. 



Meibomia lasiocarpa O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 196. 



Luzon, ProAince of Benguet, For. Bur. 15915 Bacani, Williams lJf05 : Province 

 of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 1833 Ramos, For. Bur. 2008 Ahern's collector: Province of 

 Laguna, Hallier s. 7i. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Merrill 5466. Negros, 

 For. Bur. 13120 Curran. 



Tropical Africa and Asia to southern China and Formosa, through Malaya to 

 New Guinea; introduced in the West Indies. 



The specimens from Rizal Province sometimes have simple leaves, sometimes 

 two leaflets, and sometimes three; the additional leaflets, when present, are very 

 much smaller than the normal single one. The specimens are all manifestly 

 referable to this species. 



The Blancoan sjiionyms are referred here, and under D. gangeticum, above, 

 after F.-Villar; the descriptions are too imperfect 'to be absolutely sure of the 

 correctness of the identifications. 



DOUBTFUL AND EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



Desmodium i'ilosiusculum DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 335. 



The origin of the material on which this species was based is doubtful. 

 DeCandolle says "in Philippicis ? (v. s. ex herb. Thibaud.)." Mr. C. DeCandolIe 

 has kindly supplied me with a photograph of the type; it is not matched by 

 any recently collected Philippine material, nor among the extra-Philippine species 

 represented in this Herbarium. Mr. C. DeCandolle suggests that the specimen 

 may have come from' America. 



Desmodium kingianum Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66- (1897) 398. 



The type of this species was from Burma. Usteri " has reported it from Cebu 

 and Panay, but 1 have seen no Philippine specimens that agree with Prain's 

 description. The Philippine reference may have been based on erroneously 

 identified material. 



Desmodium keniiorme DC; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 62. 



A species not definitely known from the Philippines. It is reported from India 

 and Java. 



Desmodium Desv. (1813) is antedated by Meibomia Adans. (1763), and 

 Pleurolobus St. llil. (1812), but is here retained in accordance with the list of 

 nomina conservanda of the Vienna Botanical Congress. 



48. MONARTHROCARPUS gen. nov. 



Calycis tubus brevi.s; lobi 2 supcriores altc connati, 3 iuforiores sub- 

 ,caudato-acuminati. Corolla ut in Desmodio; vcxillum orbiculari-obova- 

 •tuni hasi angustatuni ; able oltloncfae, carinao adbaerentes. Stamen vexil- 



*'Beitr. Ken. Phil. Yog. (1905) 115. 



