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Burma ; Pinmona, in forest, Collett ! King's Collector ! 



Branches stout woody, densely clothed with short spreading hairs. Leaves 5 in. 

 in diam., shortly hairy on the raised nerves beneath, secondary nervation very promi- 

 nent, petiole l|-2 in. Racemes 4-6 in. long forming copious terminal panicles with 

 densely pubescent peduncles, bracts ovate- cuspidate pubescent, pedicels |—§ in., 

 densely crinite. Calyx £-£ in., teeth setaceous nearly equal. Corolla slightly 

 exserted. Joints of pod 2-4, pubescent with short straight hairs. 



This combines the leaves of the preceding with the panicles and bracts of 

 Lourea campanulata ; like U. latifolia it is very nearly related to U. cordifolia, all 

 three having very similar flowers. In U. cordifolia, however, the bracts are very 

 different being narrrowly lanceolate, and the inflorescence though paniculate is 

 subdigitately so as in U. hamosa not laxly so as in Lourea campanulata and Uraria 

 Collettii. 



47. ALYSICARPUS Neck. 



2. Altsicarpus hamosus Edgew. 



Add to synonyms : — Hedysarum procumbens Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 56; 

 Flor. Ind. iii. 315. 



The identity of this species with Roxburgh's H. procumbens has been overlooked 

 in the F. B. I. ; in the Index Kewensis Roxburgh's species is given as a synonym of 

 Desmodium retrofiexum which it does not much resemble. 



6. Alysicarpus rugosus DC. 



At first sight it seems hardly possible to think that Alyricarpus rugosus and its 

 VAR. styracifolius Bak. can be conspecific, but a very careful examination of the 

 large suites of specimens at Calcutta shows that Mr. Baker's treatment of this 

 species is amply justified. It is however necessary in the writer's opinion to re- 

 cognise two other well-marked varieties besides those defined by Mr. Baker. These 

 are : — 



Var. 4. minor ; dwarf, diffuse, stems and leaves below glabrous, leaflets small 

 oblong, ovate, or orbicular, obtuse or subacute, racemes short dense, bracts and calyx 

 glabrous. 



N. W. Himalaya ; Griffith ! Panjab ; Pathankote, Clarke n. 22006 ! Rajputana ; 

 Abu, King ! Kattiawar ; Rajkote, McNaghten ! Western India; Gibson! Bengal; 

 Lohardugga, Gla7'he n. 33937 ! Seebpore, Kurz ! Assam ; Nowgong, Simons ! Burma ; 

 Shan States, King's Collector ! 



This variety combines the habit of var. styracifolius with the glabrous leaves 

 and stems, and the inflorescence of the true A. rugosus. It has been identified with 

 var. Heyneanus by Mr. Kurz, but it has not the hirsute leaves and stems, nor has 

 it the elongated racemes of that form ; it has been referred to var. styracifolms by 

 Mr. Clarke in which it is equally difficult to place it. It does not occur among Dr. 

 Wallich's specimens at Calcutta. 



Var. 5. pilifer ; ascending, stems and leaves below finely pubescent, leaflets 

 lanceolate, racemes short dense, calyx conspicuously ciliated. A. pilifer Wall. Cat. 

 5675. A. scariosus Herb. Ind. Or. H. f. fy T. viz Grah. 



S. India ; Wall. Cat. 5675 ! G. Thomson ! Burma ; Shan Hills, King's Collector ! 



This combines the habit of true A. rugosus with the inflorescence, etc., of var. 

 styracifolius, and the recent communication of a large suite of specimens from 



