1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosse. 389 



peduncles short. Calyx a in., teeth twice as long as tube. Pods |-1 in., 2-4-jointed ; 

 strigose. 



A very distinct species, resembling D. umoellatum in its inflorescence and D. 

 Wallichii in the reticulated under-surface of its leaves, but differing extremely 

 from both in the shape of its leaflets. Like D. Wallichii this is an inland species. 

 2. Desmodium Cephalotes Wall. 



Var. typica; pod silky. D. Cephalotes Wall. Cat. 5721; W. 8f A. 

 Prodr. 224. Hedysarum Cephalotes Roxb. Flor. Lid. iii. 360. 



Sub- Himalayan tract from Dehra Dun (King ! Duthie!) eastward. 

 Very common throughout Indo-China, extremely rare in India proper. 



Var. congestum ; pod glabrescent, leaves and branches glabrous 

 or only slightly silky. D. congestum Wall. Cat. 5723; W. 8f A. 

 Prodr. 224. Hedysarum umbellatum Roxb. Flor. Ind. iii. 360 (not of 

 Linn. ) 



Very common from Canara and the Concan southwards, also in 

 Ceylon. Mishmi ; Griffith ! Upper Burma ; Anderson I Pegu ; Wallich ! 

 Kurz! Tenasserim; Parish! Chittagong; Hooker! Clarke! 



The two varieties are very distinct ; there is however little doubt that Mr. 

 Baker is right in refusing to follow Drs. Roxburgh, Wallich and Wight in treating 

 them as specifically separable. The typical D. Cephalotes is as rare in India as the 

 variety " congestum " is in Indo-China. 



26. Desmodium olivaceum Prain ; branches triquetrous, leaflets 

 acuminate twice as long as broad, joints of pods small, broader than long. 

 Upper Burma ; Chindwin Hills, Prazer ! Maymyo, King's Collector ! 

 Shan Hills, King's Collectors ! 



A shrub or small tree, with sharply triangular branches, densely clothed, 

 especially along the angles, with long patent greenish-yellow hairs ; petioles 1-1| in., 

 deeply channelled, densely villous, leaflets glabrous except midrib above, densely 

 uniformly velvety beneath, end-leaflet 8 in. long, 3| in. across. Flowers in dense 

 globose heads, on short, angled, villous pedicels ; calyx £ in., teeth \ as long as tube ; 

 corolla white, § in. Pod J in. long, sparsely strigose, joints 2 only, each broader 

 than long. 



Near to D. Cephalotes but larger in all its parts and with different tomentum 

 and a very different pod. 



4. Desmodium grande Kurz. 



Apparently a rare species ; the specimens originally described by Kurz were not 

 collected by him but by Dr. J. Anderson, f.r.s., at Tagoung. The specimens 

 previously collected by Dr. Griffith, which the F. B. I. suggests may have come from 

 Tenasserim, came from Upper Burma ; they were collected during the journey made 

 by Griffith from Upper Assam through the Huknng Valley to Ava. The only recent 

 collection of this species is from Mingyin, where it was obtained by Prazer. 



7. Desmodium laburnifolium DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Upper Burma ; Maymyo. King's 

 Collector ! 



