380 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosfe. [No. 2, 



shape of those of TJ. picta, but have a very different venation, and are of some- 

 what different texture. The pods, however, which Mr. Kurz has described in a 

 rather misleading manner, and the pedicels, are exactly like those of TJ. crinita • 

 if it be necessary to reduce Mr. Kurz's species to another it must be to TJ. crinita not 

 to TJ. picta that it should be referred. But in the light of the ample material 

 recently received, it seems clear to the writer that either reduction would be un- 

 justifiable. 



2c. Uraria macrostachya Wall PI. As. Bar. ii. t. 110 ; leaflets 

 broadly ovate, subacute, not clouded ; pedicels clothed with long soft 

 spreading hairs ; joints of pod straw-coloured dimpled shining, perfectly 

 glabrous. Wall. Gat. 5675 I. 



Upper Burma: Hills south of Kyali, Prazer ! Tenasserim: Endine 

 Ghor, Gallatly ! Distrib. China, whence seeds were sent to Dr. Wallich. 



General habit of the three other species, of the group. Leaflets 7-8 in. long 

 by 3 in. across, with the thin texture and wide venation of those of TJ. acuminata. 



Dr. Wallich, when he firsc obtained seeds of this plant, supposed it to be a dis- 

 tinct species and had it figured for the PI. As. Bar. as TJ. macrostachya. Subse- 

 quently he obtained from Silhet very fine specimens of TJ. crinita, and came to 

 the conclusion (see his note on Wall. Cat. Lith. n. 5675 D. and his remarks in the 

 text of PI. As. Rar. ii. 8) that his TJ. macrostachya was the same as TJ. crinita ; 

 his Chinese plant (Cat. 5675 I.) he therefore subsequently issued as TJ. crinita var. 

 macrostachya. It is worthy of remark that his Calcutta Garden specimens were 

 all gathered without any of them being permitted to set their fruits, and most 

 unfortunately Dr. Wallich has allowed himself to add as the fruit of the plant 

 delineated on t. 110, a figure obviously derived from his Silhet specimens. In 

 August 1835, he again sowed seeds sent him from China by Mr. Deard in January 

 of that year; these flowered and fruited iu Nov. 1836, and so for the first time 

 it became possible to see that his reduction of his TJ. macrostachya to TJ. crinita 

 was altogether unnecessary. And although in the Index Kewensis. Dr. Wallich'a 

 erroneous identification has been followed, it will be noticed that the Flora of 

 British India has omitted the PI. As. Rariores citation. As there was then no 

 evidence that TJ. macrostachya was an Indian plant, Mr. Baker does not quote 

 the species at all ; its recent discovery both in Upper Burma and in Tenasserim 

 renders it now necessary to supply a diagnosis. 



* * Leaves 1- and S-foliolate intermixed. 

 3. Uraria lagopoides DG. 



This species is very easily recognised owing to its having been founded on the 

 excellent figure by Burmann — nor is there now any doubt that the Hedysarum 

 lagopodioides of Linnaeus is the same, excellent Chinese specimens agreeing in every 

 respect with the Indian plant having recently been sent from Hainan by Dr. Henry. 

 Dr. Roxburgh's coloured drawing at Calcutta and Kew is an excellent representa- 

 tion also. 



The species extends from Bengal and Assam throughout Indo-China to South 

 China on the one hand and to the Nicobars (where it was collected by Mr. Kurz) 

 and the Malay Archipelago on the other.' In Burma it is remarkably common, and 

 the flowers are there as often white or yellow as they are pink. For the plant, as it 

 occurs iu Java, Dr. Otto Kuutze has proposed the varietal name " rhomboidea ; " 



