Merrill: The Flora of Sumatra 243 
LITSEA PERAKENSIS Gamble in Kew Bull. (1910) 359, Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. 75’ (1912) 160. 
Karoland, Kampong Lingga, Bartlett & La Rue 117, June 6, 
1918. 
Perak, Johore, Singapore. 
LEGUMINOSAE 
DESMODIUM Desvaux 
DE8MODIUM VIRGATUM Zoll. Nat. Geneesk. Archip. Ind. 3 (1846) 58; . 
Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66’ (1897) 142. 
Karoland, Bintang Mariah, Bartlett & La Rue 128, June 7, 
1918, with the local name gambir gambir. 
Chittagong, Burma, Perak, Java, and Luzon. 
DESMODIUM ZONATUM Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 1’ (1855) 250; Gagnep. in 
Not. Syst. 3 (1916) 297. 
Karoland, Sarinambah, Bartlett & La Rue 1U5, June 8, 1918. 
This species extends from Ceylon to the Philippines and New 
Guinea and in most recent literature appears as Desmodium 
ormocarpoides DC. The latter is, however, an entirely different 
species, as Gagnepain has shown. 
DESMODIUM LASIOCARPUM (Beauv.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 328. 
Hedysarum lasiocarpum Beauv. FI. Oware et Benin 1 (1804) 32, 
t. 18. 
Desmodium latifolium DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 328. 
Karoland, Soesoek, Bartlett & La Rue 321, July 8, 1918, with 
the local name gambir gambir. 
A common and widely distributed species in the tropics of 
the Old World. 
MIMOSA Linnaeus 
MIMOSA INVISA Mart, in Flora 20’ (1837) Beibl. 121. 
Asahan, Kampong Silau Meradja, Bartlett & La Rue 394; Oc- 
tober 24, 1918, with the local name si madoeridoeri. 
A native of Brazil, introduced here. 
PITHECOLOBIUM Martius 
PITHECOLOBIUM JIRINGA (Jack) Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66' 
(1897) 267, in nota. 
Mimosa jiringa Jack in Malay. Miscel. 1 ’ (1820) 14. 
Inga jiringa Jack op. cit. 2 ’ (1822) 78. 
Pithecolobium lobatum Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 3 (1844) 
208. 
Asahan, Silau Meradja, Bartlett & La Rue 148, 417, June and 
October, 1918, with the local names djering and djaring. 
164001 6 
