1897.] D. Prain — Some additional Leguminosie. 401 



easily distinguishable are brought together in spite of very great and apparently 

 constant differences in foliage. Under this mode of treatment, if consistently 

 applied, D. sequax and D. sinuatum should have been united, as also should 

 .D. serriferwm and D. tilisefolium, and again D. reniforme and D. oblatum, 



40. Desmodium rotundipolium Bale. 



41. Desmodium parviflorum Bah. 



These two species do not accord at all well with the generic definition of 

 Desmodium, and are more conveniently referred to Ahjsicarpus, in which they were 

 originally placed by Dalzell. 



42 6. Desmodium birmannicum Watt; shrubby, suberect, leaflets 3, 

 pedicels long, spreading or deflexed, bracts large, flowers and joints of 

 pod small. D. oblongum Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xlv. pt. 2. 226, 

 229 not of Wall. 



Burma ; Pegu, rather frequent, Kurz n. 1677 bis. ! 2532 ! 



A suberect undershrub with woody slightly angular slender branches, sparingly 

 clothed upwards with longish adpressed whitish hairs. Petiole % in. ; leaflets mem- 

 branous elliptic, sparingly clothed with adpressed silky hairs on both surfaces, green 

 above, glaucescent beneath ; end-leaflet If in. long, 1 in. across, its petiolule £ in.. 

 long ; lateral almost sessile 1 in. long. Racemes in laxly spreading terminal panicles 

 a foot long or more ; bracts large membranons subpersistent ovate-acuminate ; 

 pedicels ^ in. long, almost glabrous. Calyx \ in., teeth aenminate twice as long as 

 the tube. Corolla under \ in. Pod ^-f in. long, £ in. broad, minutely puberulous, 

 splitting throughout along the lower suture ; joints 4-6, only occasionally separating 

 transversely. 



A very distinct species which Mr. Kurz at first appears to have considered a 

 variety of I). polycarpum, but which he afterwards treated and issued as D. oblongum. 

 Dr. Watt, who has placed a MSS. description of the plant in Herb. Calcutta, has, 

 however, very justly proposed to treat it as a species. It is most nearly related to 

 D. polycarpum, but the lax panicles, very long pedicels and very differently dehiscing 

 pods, amply distinguish it. 



44. Desmodium reniforme DC. 



Very nearly, perhaps too nearly, related to this is D. oblatum Bak. 



45. Desmodium heterophylldm DC. 



This seems to be the representative in Indo-China and Malaya of D. triflorum. 

 It occurs, but is rare, in S. India and Ceylon, while it is extremely common, as an 

 indigenous species, in Burma, the Andamans and Nicobars, Tenasserim and the 

 Malay Peninsula. D. triflorum, which is so common in India, is rare in Burma, and 

 in the Andamans and Malaya occurs only sparingly about the various settlements, 

 with all the appearance of being a quite recent introduction from India. 



49. Desmodium gyroides DC. 



Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Perak; Kinta river, Kunstler n. 765 ! 



56. SHLTTERIA W. & A. 

 I. Shuteria vestita W. 8f A. 

 Add to localities of F. B. I. : — Daphla Hills : Lister ! Naga Hills ; 



