378 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. [No. 2, 



ful analysis of examples of all the forms hitherto reported, the writer feels unable 

 to accept this extreme view. He cannot, however, quite follow Mr. Hoissier, I.e., in 

 keeping A. graecorum Boiss. as a species apart from A. maurorum and would propose 

 the recognition in the genus of only two species, viz. : — 



1. A. maurorum Toarnef. Cor. 54; DC. Prodr. ii. 352; ovaries silky. 



2. A. camelorum Fisch. I.e. ; ovaries qnite glabrous. 



The name given by Desvaux to the first-named species was A. mannifera ; he 

 did not anywhere use the name cited in the Flora of British India. 



All our Indian specimens of Alhagi have glabrous ovaries and hence belong to 

 the second species; those from the Paujab, North- West Frontier and North -West 

 Himalaya are indistinguishable from the Persian and Armenian species of A. camel- 

 orum, while curiously many of those from Rajputana have the broader leaves character- 

 istic of the form from Turkestan and Soongaria which Schrenk proposed to recog- 

 nise as a species under the name A. Kirghisorum. 



34. HEDYSARUM Linn. 



6. Hedysarum sibiricum Poir. Encyc. Meth. Suppl. v. 17. 



Specimens of this species grown in the Imperial Garden, St. Petersburg, as well 

 as others collected by Turczaninov and named by Dr. Kegel, are indistinguishable 

 from the plant named H. laxifiorum by Mr. Bentham. 



38. SM1THIA Ait. 



1. Smithia sensitiva Ait. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Andamans and Nicobars ; common, 

 but only in the convict settlements, and evidently a recently introduced 

 weed. 



lb. Smithia flava Bah. MSS. ; stems not bristly, leaflets small, 

 16-20 ; flowers in short simple racemes, calyx-lips equal, corolla yellow ; 

 flowers much larger than in 8. sensitiva. S. sensitiva var. flore majore 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.SfT. 



Western India; Concan, Law ! Stocks! Canara, in damp rice fields 

 Talbot n. 257 / 



General habit of S. sensitiva, but with much stouter sparingly branched stems 

 and very much larger flowers. 



This is only accorded specific rank because S. javanica Benth., from Java and 

 Sumatra, which has corolla and pods very like those of 8. sensitiva and mainly differs 

 in having no bristles on the calyx and bracts, is so recognised. 



5. Smithia bigemina Dalz. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. :— Scinde ; Stocks! Rajputana; on 

 Mt. Abu, very common, King ! Duthie n. 6627 ! 



7. Smithia ciliata Boyle. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Naga Hills ; Kohima, Clarke n. 

 41705! Burma; Pegu, Bookee ridges, Kurz n. 1633 ! Distrib. Formosa 

 (Henry n. 1521!) 



10. Smithia salsuginea Fiance, Journ. Bot. vii. 164 (1869). S. 

 dichotoma Dalz. ex Bak., in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 150 (1876). 



