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var. rig id urn, a woody strict plant about three feet tall. 

 Leaflets three stiff coriaceous, lanceolate, base rounded, 

 apex slightly narrowed, blunt 3 inches long, f inch wide, 

 or less giabrous shining above covered beneath with long 

 appressed hairs giving it a glaucous appearance. Eacemes 

 terminal strict 6 to 8 inches long hairy. Fruits half- 

 an-inch long shortly hairy, Kedah, Alor Sta (15147) 

 Lankawi (Curtis) and Penang, Ayer Hitam (Curtis 459) 

 sub. var. minor. A small form with leaflets coriaceous 

 like the last variety, but oblong obtuse f to 1 inch long dis- 

 tinctly reticulated, branches with appressed silky hairs. 

 Eacemes li inch long slender. A dwarf-form from the 

 Setul heaths (15148). 



Both of these seem to be xerophytic forms of the 

 common plant. 



D. ovalifolium, Wall. D. polycarpum, var. ovalifolium, Prain. 

 Kedah, Bukit Pinang, near Alor Sta (15144) and Gunong 

 Geriang. Common in the peninsula. 



I should hold this to be specifically distinct from D. 

 polycarpum on account of its persistent prostrate creeping 

 habit and its pale lavender white flowers. 



D. qanqeticum, Dec. Kedah, Gunong Geriang ( 15137) Perlis 

 ' Tebing T.inggi (15138). Setul (15139). Trang at Chong 

 (Native collector). Shrubby with yellow flowers. 



Distrib. Nicobars and Penang. 



I), triqiietrum, Eoxb. Setul. Kedah on Bnkit Pinang, at 

 Alor Sta (15141). Perlis, Kanga (15140) Distrib. Indo- 

 Malaya, absent from the peninsula. 



D. latifolium, Dec. Trang at Chong (Native collector) 

 Bangtaphan (Keith). Distrib. Africa, Indo- Malaya Siam, 

 absent from the peninsula. This resembles 7). qanqeticum, 

 Dec. but its flowers are pink 



Sophora tomentosa, L. Lankawi, Kwala Malacca, Burau 

 (Curtis, Eidley). 



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