1876.] Knowledge of tlie Burmese Flora. 237 



Eoxb. Fl. Ind. III. 36S ; U. repanda, Wall. Cat. 5G77 ; Bth. in PL Jungh. 

 1.269; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 156). 



Hab. Along the banks of the Irrawaddi in Prome and Ava. — Fl. ES. 



9. U. lagopoides, DC. Prod. II. 321 ; Wight Icon. t. 289 ; Hf. 

 Ind. Fl. II. 156 {JELecly sarum lagopoides, L. sp. pi. 1057 ; Burin. Fl. Ind. 

 6S. t. 53. f. 2. ; Doodia lagopodioides, Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 366). 



Hab. Chittagong ; most probably in other parts of Burma. — Fl. BS. 



Zornia, G-mel. 



1. Z. diphtlla, Pers. Sjn. II. 318 ; Bth. Fl. Austr. II. 228 and in 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. XV. 80. t. 21-22 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 147 {Kedysarum diphyl- 

 lum, L. sp. pi. 560 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 353.) 



Hats. Not unfrequent on sandy or gravelly pastures and in grassy 

 places of the eng and dry forests, all over Arracan, Pegu, and Prome ; also 

 Ava.— Fl. Fr. BS. 



Araehis, L. 



•1. A. HTPOGJ3A, L. sp. pi. 1010 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 280 ; WA. 

 Prod. I. 280 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. I. 281. 



Hab. Cultivated all over Burma. — Fl. Fr. B. and CS. 



Smithia, Ait. 

 Conspectus of Species. 



* Fruiting calyx simply striate, not reticulate, the lobes more or less acute ; joints 



of pod more or less globular. 

 Calyx- lobes quite glabrous and nude ; flowers in slenderly peduncled naked heads or 



short racemes S. sensitiva. 



Calyx-lobes more or less hairy-fringed on the keel beneath ; flowers in dense sessile 



heads involucred by the uppermost leaves, S. conferta. 



Calyx-lobes minutely toothed, the teeth all excurrent into long stiff bristles ; flowers 



in dense slenderly peduncled naked heads, S. ciliata. 



* * Fruiting calyx urceolate-bell- shaped, striate and net-veined, the lobes more or 



less truncate ; pod-joints [cmd also the seeds) much compressed. 

 Leaflets in 4 to 2 pairs; upper part of stipule about 3 lin. long ; pod-joints 10 — 12, 



about a line long, papillose, S. dichotoma. 



Leaflets in 10 — 15 pairs ; upper part of stipule nearly an in. long ; pod-joints 20 — 25, 



2 lin. long or longer, veined, 3. grandis. 



1. S. seitsitiya, Ait. Hort. Kew. III. 496 t. 13 ; Eoxb. Fl. Ind. 

 III. 342 ; Salisb. Parad. Bond. t. 92 ; Hf . Ind. Fl. II. 118. (8. Javanica, 

 Bth. in PL Jungh. I. 211 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 271). 



Hab. Very frequent in moist pasture-land, along grassy borders and 

 in fallow fields, especially in diluvial lands, all over Burma, from Chitta- 

 gong, Pegu, and Martaban down to Tenasserim. — FL Fr. ES. 



