400 D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosee. [No. 2, 



on the upper surface ; corolla 3-4 times the calyx, pod densely clothed 

 with minute hooked hairs. D. latifolium Bah. in Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 

 168 not of DC. D. latifolium vae. virgatum Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 247. 

 D. gangeticum VAR. acuminatum Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i, 248. 



Chittagong ; Rangamati, Clarke! Bukma ; Prome, Wallich {Gat. 

 n. 5692 G. in part) ; Pegu, Kurz ! Shan Hills, Gollett ! Perak ; Scorte- 

 chini n. 1594 ! Distrib. Malay Archipelago. 



Stems suberect reaching 3-4 feet high, woody, slightly angular. Leaflet oblong 

 5-6 in. long, thinly clothed beneath with grey hairs. Racemes copious ascending 

 4-8 in. long, slender. Pod |-f in. long, ^ in. broad, 4-6 jointed. 



This plant in habit and foliage resembles D. gangeticum ; in flowers and fruits, 

 D. latifolium. 



27. Desmodium latifolium DC. ■ 

 Delete the synonym D. virgatum Zoll. 



31. Desmodium sequax Wall. 



Very nearly related to D. sinuatum Blume, to which it bears the relationship 

 that D. serriferum bears to D. tilixfolium. The specimens from Mishmi collected 

 by Dr. Griffith apparently include both " species,'' those at Kew being referred by Mr. 

 Baker to D. sinuatum. All the Mishmi specimens at Calcutta belong on the con- 

 trary to D. sequax, the end-leaflets being narrowed gradually to a point. 



32. Desmodium concinnum DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Burma; Bookee ridges, Kurz ! 



The Burmese specimens are referable to var. amoena Bak., but intermedi- 

 ates from the Khasia Hills are so plentiful that the existence of this variety cannot 

 be satisfactorily maintained. 



33. Desmodium retroflexum DC. 

 Delete the locality " Tenasserim." 



34. Desmodium capitatdm DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Perak ; common, Kunstler n. 361 ! 

 Scortechini n. 45 ! Tenasserim ; Heifer. 



35. Desmodium Griffithianum Bth. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. :— Burma ; Chin Hills, King's Collectors ! 

 38. Desmodidm polycarpum DC. • 



Some of the forms included by Dr. Wight and Prof. Walker-Arnott in this 

 species are at least varietally distinct, notably that issued by Dr. Wallich as 

 D. ovalifolium, in which the leaflets are narrowed to an acute apex and have some- 

 times a truncate or even subcordate base. This form is plentiful in Tenasserim, the 

 An damans, the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra. The D. polycarpum of the F. B. I. is 

 rather a group of forms aggregated for convenience, than a well-defined species. 

 The object of the aggregation. is readily appreciable : it will be noticed, however, 

 that the reasons for adopting it are the reverse of those made use of in the similar 

 D. triquetrum group. There, all the forms whose foliage happens to be similar are 

 grouped together in spite of their having somewhat different flowers and totally 

 different fruits. Here, a number of forms with flowers and fruits that are not 



