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Native names: Malacarios (Zambales) ; nagtan-urang (Masbate) ; miagos 
(Tieao) ; cabay-cabay (Tayabas). 
Along the seashore throughout the Philippines; from the Mascarene Islands 
through India, southern China, Malaya, northern Australia and Polynesia. 
4. Desmodium quinquepetalum (Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 
35 (1906) 20. 
Gytisus quinquepetalus Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 598. 
Glycine cajanoides Walp. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 
324; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 62. 
Cajanus quinquepetalus Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2 ( 1845 ) 417, ed. 3, 2 : 397. 
Desmodium cephalotes F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 61, non Wall. 
Luzon, Province of Abra, Bur. Sci. 7256 Ramos: Province of Ilocos Norte, 
For. Bur. 13819, 13912, 13960, 15521 Merritt & Darling: Province of Ilocos Sur, 
For. Bur. 5259 Klemme: Province of Benguet, For. Bur. 14118 Merritt & Darling, 
Williams 930, Bur. Sci. 5573 Ramos: Province of Nueva Ecija, Bur. Sci. 5270 
McGregor : Province of Zambales, Bur. Sci. 5122 Ramos, For. Bur. 5808, 6963, 
6958 Curran: Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. 4909 Ramos: Province of Pam- 
panga, For. Bur. 9613 ZschoJcke: Province of Bulacan, Yoder 113: Province of 
Rizal, For. Bur. 1841, 2154, 3296 Ahern’s collector, Bur. Sci. 1498 Ramos. With- 
out locality (Vidal 245, 246, 247, 1063; Loher 2368, 2369, 2370) in Herb. Kew. 
fide Prain in lit. 
Native names: Pangardisan, pangaldisan (Ilocos, Benguet) ; payispis, baquis- 
quis (Rizal). 
Widely distributed in Luzon at low and medium altitudes in open thickets; 
endemic. I have examined the type of Glycine cajanoides Walp. in the Berlin 
herbarium and find that it is identical with the above species. 
§ Scorpiurus. 
5. Desmodium laxiflorum DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 335; Baker in Hook. f. FI. 
Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 164; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 61; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. 
(1904) 18; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 65. 
Desmodium recurvatum Grah. in Wall. Cat. (1832) no. 5717; Benth. PI. Jungh. 
(1852) 225. . 
Meibomia laxiflora 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 196. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 15685 Merritt & Darling: District 
of Lepanto, Merrill 4464-' Province of Benguet, For. Bur. 14411 Darling, Merrill 
4394: Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 2218 Meyer, Williams 269: Province of La- 
guna, Eallier s. n., Bur. Sci. 6025, 6090 Robinson: Province of Rizal, Loher 2363, 
Merrill 1348, For. Bur. 1976 Ahern’s collector: Province of Bulacan, Yoder 27. 
Palawan, Bur. Sci. 239 Bermejos. Ticao, For. Bur. 12556 Rosenbluth. Negros, 
For. Bur. 5608 Everett. Mindanao, For. Bur. 9230 Whitford & Hutchinson. 
Basilan, Eallier s. n. 
Native names: Mamgquit (Rizal); Manquit-labuyo (Laguna). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines in thickets and ravines from sea level 
to an altitude of at least 1,000 m; India to Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and 
Archipelago. 
6. Desmodium scorpiurus (Sw.) Desv. Journ. Bot. 1 (1813) 122; DC. Prodr. 
2 (1825) 333; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 18; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
1 (1906) Suppl. 65. 
Hedysarum scorpiurus Sw. Prodr. (1788) 107. 
Meibomia scorpiurus 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 198. 
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