206 



Rep. Washington, March, 1910, pp. 60-61. — -'"Useful Facts regarding 

 the Ground Nut," in Agric. News, Barbados, 1910, pp. 68-69, from 

 Bulletin No. 21, Station Agronomique, Mauritius. " The Cultiva- 

 tion, Preparation, and Utilisation of the Ground-Nut," in Bull. Imp. 

 Inst. 1910, pp. 153-172. 



ZORNIA, Gmel. 



Zornia diphylla, Pers., Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 158. 



Ill— Rheede, Hort. Mai. ix. tt. 82-83 (Nelam-Mari) ; Mart. Fl. 

 Bras. xv. pt. 1, t. 21 (vars. elatior, gracilis), t. 22 (vars. latifolia, 

 leptophylla). 



Vernac. name. — Rekureku (Lagos, MacGregor). 



Katagum ; Nupe ; Lagos. Known also from Sierra Leone, Loanda, 

 Nubia, Abyssinia, Uganda, and Mozambique. 



Stored like clover in Europe, by the Foulahs and those people who 

 keep horses, as provender for the dry season (Barter, Herb. Kew. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e. ; Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 314). 



Found growing abundantly in sandy soils in Nupe (Barter, Herb. 

 Kew), dry grass land, Uganda (Wilson, Herb. Kew), and frequently 

 with short herbage, in exposed rocky places, Pungo Andongo 

 (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL i. p. 239). 



Desmodium, Desv. 



Desmodium triflorum, DC. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 166. 



III. — Burman, Fl. Indica. t. 54. f. 2 {Hedysarum stipulaceuni) ; 

 Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. Or. i. t. 291 ; Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 1, t. 26, f . 1. 



Ibadan : cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 



Valued as a medicine for the cure of dysentery (Thwaites, PL Zeyl. 

 p. 86 ; Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 315). 



Recommended as cover for ground, preparatory to setting out a 

 rubber plantation ; the best time to establish it at a minimum cost 

 being immediately after the land has been burned off. Lalang or 

 other weeds do not then start so readily, and there is no immediate 

 necessity of putting in the rubber plants, as the ground will improve 

 under the growth of the Desmodium, and the cost of cutting it away 

 when the rubber plants are ready to be put out is comparatively 

 little (Philippine Agric. Rev. 1909, p. 289). The plant is also suitable 

 for growing as green manure in any plantation. In India it helps to 

 form good turf ; and cattle like it (Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



It may be propagated by seeds, but as these are not readily 

 obtained, perhaps the best way is to transplant it from the roadsides 

 or from any waste place where it may be found growing in a wild 

 state. The plant is usually abundant. It is found abundantly on 

 dry paths in sandy soil ; Mahela, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Herb. 

 Kew) ; covering the ground with a dense mat, Onitsha (Barter, Herb. 

 Kew), in dry sandy soil at an altitude of 1100 feet, Stanley Pool, 

 Congo, (Fr. Hens, Herb. Kew). 



Uraria, Desv. 



Uraria picta, Desv. ; FL Trop. Afr. II. p. 169. 



111. — Jacq. Ic. PL Rar. iii. t. 567 (Hedysarum pictum) ; Wight, Ic. 

 PL Ind. Or, ii. t, 411. 



