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



16. Desmodium Scalpe DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. .—Manipur; Clarke n. 42029 ! 



17. Desmodium obcordatum Kurz. 



Add to distribution : — Sumatra (Teysmann u. 3909 !) 



18. Desmodium oblongum Wall. 

 Var. typica ; leaves oblong, obtuse. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. :— Manipur, Watt n. 5083 ! 



Var. acutifolium ; leaves larger, ovate-lanceolate acute, flowers 

 rather smaller, whole plant larger and stouter. D. substipulaceum 

 Kurz, Journ. As. Soc. Beng. pt. 2. xlv. 230 not of Bl. 



Burma ; Nattoung Mts., Bevd. Cross ! Mogouk, Cooper ! 



It is just possible that this variety may be specifically distinct from D. obtusum; 

 this at least was the opinion of Mr. Kurz. Its fruits, however, are exactly like 

 those of D. oblongum and are not like those of the plant to which he has referred 

 it. The plant with which Mr. Kurz has united it has, besides, 3-foliolate leaves, while 

 all our specimens of this have simple leaves. The latter difference, however, may 

 not be of specific importance, since D. oblongum proper is described by Mr. Baker 

 as having simple leaves, which is true of all our specimens at Calcutta except Wall. 

 Cat. n. 5714 itself, where the leaves are 3-foliolate. 



19. Desmodium oblatum Bah. 



This, as the F. B. I. points out, is very close to n. 44. D. reniforme, which is also 

 cited as occurring in Burma. Mr. Kurz has doubted {Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. 

 2. 230) that D. reniforme is Burmese ; certainly all Kurz's specimens from Burma, as 

 well as the only Wallichian one at Calcutta ( Wall. Gat. n. 5702 — the Prome portion 

 only) are D. oblatum rather than D. reniforme; recently, however, genuine D. 

 reniforme has been received from Maymyo and elsewhere. But the plants do not 

 appear to the writer to differ even as varieties; D. oblatum does not always have 

 longer pedicels than D. reniforme, and some of our Maymyo specimens are interesting 

 on account of their having the slightly indented pods of D. reniforme and the deeply 

 indented ones of D. oblatum on the same branch. 



20. Desmodium sinuatum Blume. 



Add to localities of F. B. I.: — Upper Burma; Mogouk, Cooper! 

 Add to distribution: — Szecbuen, Pratt ( n. 422 !) 



This appears to be no more than the representative in the Eastern Peninsula of 

 the Himalayan D. sequax (n. 31). Except for the rather closer tomentum on the 

 leaves beneath, and for the fact that the end-leaflet is rhomboid and obtuse in 

 this plant, instead of ovate-oblong and acute as in D. sequax, it would be impossible 

 to distinguish the two. From their position in the F. B. I. it might be gathered 

 that the two plants differ as regards calyx. This, however, is not the case, the 

 calyx in the two is indistinguishable, as are the corollas and the pods. 



Pratt n. 422 has been issued as D. grossicrenatum Franch. If this identification 

 be correct then Mr. Franchet's name becomes a synonym of D. sinuatum. There 

 is not, however, any authentic example of D. grossicrenatum at Calcutta. 



21. Desmodium sambuense DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I.: — Burma; common from the Chin 

 Hills to the Shan Plateau. 



