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MERRILL. 
The generic name Donia G. Don, has page priority over Clianthus, both genera 
having been published in the same work; the latter is retained in accordance 
with the list of noviina conservanda of the Vienna Botanical Congress. 
42. ORMOCARPUM DC. 
1. Ormocarpum cochinchinense (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Diphaca cochinchinensis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 454. 
Hedysarum sennoides Willd. Sp. PI. 3 (1800) 1207. 
Ormocarpum sennoides DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 315; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. 
Ind. 2 (1876) 152; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 60; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 
(1886) 106; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 17. 
Luzon, Province of Iloeos Sur, For. Bur. 5631 Klemme: Province of Ilocos 
Norte, For. Bur. 13956 Merritt <£• Darling. 
India, Ceylon, tropical Africa; Siam, southern China, Malaya to northern 
Australia and Polynesia. 
Ormocarpum DC. (1825) is antedated by Diphaca Lour. (1790), so far as 
the generic name is concerned, but the former is in the list of nomina conservanda 
of the Vienna Botanical Congress, and is here retained, although necessitating a 
change in the specific name according to strict priority. Loureiro cites Rumphius’ 
Herbarium Amboinense, 3 (1743) 200, t. 128, but the figure apparently represents 
Ormocarpum gldbrum T. & B. rather than 0. cochinchinense. O. Kuntze 43 has 
taken up Rumphius’ name Solulus for the species generally known as Ormocarpum, 
but this is inadmissable under all generally accepted rules. 
43. AESCHYNOMENE Linn. 
1. Aeschynomene indica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 713; Baker in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 151; Vid. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 107, Rev. PI. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 106. 
Aeschynomene aspera Vogel in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 
1 : 26, non Linn. 
Aeschynomene roxburghii Spreng. ; Llanos Fragm. (1851) 83. 
Luzon, Province of Pampanga, Merrill 1/235 : Manila, Merrill 31/10, Hernandez 
1/9: Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 11(23 Ramos. Polillo, Bur. Sci. 9021/ Robinson. 
A common and widely distributed weed in wet lands, rice paddies, etc.; widely 
distributed in the tropics, especially in the Old World. 
I have seen the Philippine specimen in the Berlin Herbarium determined by 
Vogel as A. aspera, and consider it to be rather A. indica. 
44. SMITH I A Ait. 
Calyx rigid, its veins close, parallel, simple, its lips acute, with few scattered 
hairs ; flowers yellow 1. S. sensitiva 
Calyx membranaceous, its veins not close and parallel, anastomosing, the upper 
lip truncate, very broad, prominently eiliate-bristly; flowers pale-blue. 
2. S. ciliata 
1. Smithia sensitiva Ait. Hort. Kew. 3 (1789) 496; DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 
323; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 148; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. 
(1904) 18. 
Damapana sensitiva O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 179. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Williams 969, 1211, Bur. Sci. 5533, 5928 Ramos, 
43 Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 205. 
