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FLEMINGIA Roxb. 
Flemingia lineata (Linn.) Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 56; FI. Ind. 3:341; 
Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 228; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 67. 
Hedysarum lineatum Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1054. 
Flemingia blancoana Llanos Fragm. (1851) 80; Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 3, 4 1 :62. 
Luzon, Province of Bulacan, near Malolos, Mrs. Templeton, February, 1909. 
A species previously known from the Philippines only by F.-Villar’s record, 
and to which he reduced, and apparently correctly so, Flemingia blancoana. Llanos. 
India to Siam, the Malay Archipelago and northern Australia. 
DESMODIUM Desv. 
Desmodium retroflexum (Linn.) DO. Prodr. 2 (1825) 336; Baker in Hook, 
f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 170; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 
(1887) 176. 
Luzon, Province of Nueva Ecija, Cabanatuan, Bur. Sci. 5218 McGregor, Sep- 
tember, 1908. 
Himalayan region to Tenasserim and southern China; new to the Philippines. 
ERYTHROPHLOEUM Afzel. 
Erythrophloeum densiflorum (Elm.) comb. nov. 
Cynometra densiflora Elm. Lead. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 222. 
Arbor glabra, inflorescentiis exceptis, risque ad 25 m alta; foliis alternis 
abrupte bipinnatis, pinnis 1- vel 2-jugatis; foliolis oppositis, abrupte 
pinnatis, 3- ad 5-jugatis, subcoriaceis, nitidis, in sicco brunneis vel 
pallidis, usque ad 15 cnr longis, valde acuminatis, basi rotundatis vel 
acutis, leviter inaequalibus ; floribus parvis, spicatis, spicis pnbescentibus, 
in paniculis terminalibus vel subterminalibus dispositis; petalis 5, im- 
bricatis, circiter 4 mm longis; ovarium stipitatum, 4-ovulatum; legumi- 
nibus ligneis, oblongis vel anguste oblongo-obovatis, obtusis, compressis, 
basi angustatis, longitudinal] ter laxe retieulato-striatis, rectis vel leviter 
falcatis, dehiscentibus, usque ad 18 cm longis, 4.5 cm latis; seminibus 1 
ad 4, compressis, orbicularibus, circiter 3 cm diametro. 
The type of this species was collected by Mr. Elmer No. 9013, near Lucban, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, in flower, and described by him as Cynometra. densi- 
flora. It is represented by the following additional material; Luzon, Province of 
Tayabas, Bulin, For. Bur. 10272 Curran, with nearly mature fruit; Guinayangan, 
For. Bur. 12507 Rosenbluth ; Dugatan, For. Bur. 10215 Curran ; Apad, For. Bur. 
11513 Whitford. A sterile specimen from Mindanao, For. Bur. 9163 Whitford & 
Hutchinson, may be referable here. Locally known to the Tagalogs as Cainatog 
or Calamantao. 
A most interesting addition to our knowledge of the Philippine flora, the genus, 
up to the present time consisting of about six species, mostly in Africa and 
Madagascar, one in Australia and one in China. 
KINGIODENDRON Harms. 
K ingiodendron alternifolium (Elmer) Merrill & Rolfe, comb. nov. 
Cynometra alternifolia Elmer Leafl. Philip. Bot. 1 (1907) 223. 
Hardioickia alternifolia Elmer 1. c. (1908) 362. 
Arbor magna, glabra : foliis imparipinnatis, alternis, rariter oppositis, 
