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Desmodium podocarpum De Candolle, var. szechuenense Craib, n. 

 var. 



A typo recedit foliolis multo angustioribus. 



Western Szech'uan: Ya-chou Fu, grassy places, alt. 300-1000 

 m., September 1908 (No. 2933; bush 0.6-1 m. tall, flowers purple); 

 without precise locality, 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4830); Mt. Omei, 

 A. Henry (No. 167). 



Desmodium serriferum Wallich, Cat. No. 5708^ (nomen nudum) 

 (1831). 



Desmodium oxyphyllum De Candolle, var. serriferum Baker in Hooker f., 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 167 (1879). 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 1000-1300 m., No- 

 vember 1908 (No. 1236; bush 1-1.3 m. tall, flowers red-purple); near 

 Tachien-lu, roadside thickets, alt. 2300-2500 m., October 1908 (No. 

 1236^; bush 1-1.6 m. tall); Kiatmg Fu, thickets, alt. 300-600 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 2927; bush 0.6-1 m. tall, flowers rose-purple); 

 same locality, alt. 300-1000 m., September 1908 (No. 2928; bush 

 0.6-1 m. tall, flowers violet-purple). 



Desmodium sinuatum Blume apud Baker in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. 11. 166 (1879). 



Desmodium strangulatum, var. sinuatum Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 255 (1855). 



Western Szech'uan: Tung Valley, thickets, alt. 600-1200 m., 

 1908 (No. 2941; shrub 1-1.2 m. tall, flowers purple). 



Desmodium tiliaefolium G. Don, Gen. Syst. II. 297 (1832). 



Western Szech'uan: south-east of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 

 1300-1600 m., June 1908 (No. 2936; bush 1.3-2 m. tall, flowers 

 crimson); Hongkong Ting, descent Hsao-chin Ho, alt. 2300-2600 m., 

 June 1908 (No. 2937; bush 0.6-2 m. tall, flowers deep yellow); Mupin, 

 thickets, alt. 1000-1600 m., June 1908 (No. 2940; bush 1-1.2 m. tall, 

 flowers purple). 



URARIA Desv. 



Uraria hamosa Wallich, var. sinensis Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. 

 XXIII. 177 (1887). 



Western Szech'uan : Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 2935; bush 1-1.3 m. tall, flowers violet-purple). 



