1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosss. 391 



Roxburgh has left no figure of his Hedysarum alatum, but his description fits 

 D. triquetrum and D. triquetrum only. The account of his own Hedysarum triquetrum 

 is incomplete because it does not fully describe the pods. Its prostrate habit, how- 

 ever, should almost have sufficed to indicate that this is the plant intended, and 

 Roxburgh has fortunately left a drawing which proves that his Hedysarum triquetrum 

 is not that of Linnaeus bat is the Desmodium -pseudo -triquetrum of De Candolle. Wight 

 and Arnofct (Prodromus 225) clearly never saw D. alatum DC, the plant which they 

 supposed to be that species is D. auriculatum. 



9. Desmodium ormocarpoides DC. 



Var. typica; leaves inconspicuously downy beneath. DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 327. Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 164. Add to synonyms of F. B. I. :— 

 D. teres Clarke, Journ. Linn. Soc. xxv. 16 not of Wall. 



Add to localities : — Assam ; Grauhati, G. Mann ! Nichuguard, Clarke ! 



Mr. Clarke has indentified his plant with D. teres Wall, which mainly differs 

 from D. ormocarpoides in having a very short petiole and is perhaps not specifically 

 distinct ; even in that case, however, D. ormocarpoides is the older name. 



Var. velutina Prain, Journ, As. Soc. Beng. lxvi. 2. 142 ; leaves 

 densely velvety beneath. 



S. Andamam ; Goplakabang, Hobdaypur, etc., King ! King's 

 Collectors ! Pahang ; Kwala Tembeling, Ridley n. 2605 ! Selangor ; 

 Ridley 7295 ! 



10. Desmodium teres Wall. 



This is evidently very rare or at least very local in Upper Burma. Mr. Prazer 

 has sent to Calcutta a solitary specimen from Mingyin, the only one received since 

 Dr. Wallich first found the plant. 



13. Desmodium podocarpum DC. ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 165, 

 excl. syn. D. japonicum. Leaflets broadly ovate, terminal rhomboid, 

 lateral subrhomboid, sparsely puberulous above and below. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — Desmodium rhomboideum Sweet, 

 Hort. Brit. ed. ii. 151. D. Harwickianum Voigt, Hort. Calcutt. 223. 

 Hedysarum rhombifolium Roxb. Hort. Beng. 57 not of Elliott. 



Amend localities : — North-West Himalaya ; very common from 

 Kashmir, Clarke, to Kamaon, Blinkworth, etc. 



The locality given by Roxburgh for Genl. Hardwicke's plant is " Cawnpore ; " 

 this probably only means that it was from Cawnpore that Hardwicke despatched 

 the seeds to Roxburgh. It is usual to suppose that the plants which were introduced 

 to the Calcutta garden through the kindness of Genl. Hardwicke, came from the 

 plains of Upper India ; the writer has already had occasion to point out that, 

 in the majority of instances, Genl. Hardwicke's contributions that proved unfamiliar 

 to Dr. Roxburgh have heen found eventually to have come from Dehra Dun, the 

 Garhwal Babur and the lower slopes of the North-West Himalaya. 



Dr. Wallich sent this plant to Geneva among the specimens from Nepal that 

 were described by M. De Candolle in the .volumes of the Prodromus published 

 before 1828, the year in which the dispersal of the Hon'ble East India Company's 



