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50. PYCNOSPORA R. Br. 
1. Pycnospora nervosa (Grah.) W. & A. Prodr. (1834) 197. 
Crotalaria ? nervosa- Grah. in Wall. Cat. (1832) no. 5428, nomen. 
' Pycnospora hedysaroides R. Br. ex W. & A. 1. e. ; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. 
Ind. 2 (1876) 153; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 60; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 
(1886) 108. 
Luzon, Province of Benguet, Williams 921, llfOl. Semeraba, Merrill If 145. 
Culion, Merrill 681. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens s. n. : District of 
Davao, Williams 2629, 2951. 
India and Ceylon to southern China and Formosa, and northern Australia, but 
not as yet reported from the Malay Peninsula or Archipelago. 
The earliest specific name for this species is possibly supplied by Flemingia 
polyspermia Moon Cat. (1824) 54, but the identity of Moon’s species appears to 
be doubtful, as it is questionably referred here both by Wight & Arnott, and by 
Trimen. The original use of Crotalaria ? nervosa Grah. is a nomen nudum, and 
has no standing, but Pycnospora nervosa was published by Wight & Arnott, and 
it ■ is considered that this name has precedence over the more commonly used 
P. hedysaroides R. Br., which was mentioned by Wight & Arnott only incidentally. 
51. ALYSICARPUS Neck. 
Calyx equaling several joints of the pod; pods glabrous, not at all rugose; leaves 
linear or lanceolate-linear; racemes slender, 8 to 15 cm long. 
1. A. bupleurifolius 
Calyx equaling the first or second joint of the pod only; pods glabrous or 
puberulent, distinctly rugose; leaves various, but never linear or linear- 
lanceolate; racemes less than 8 cm long. 
Erect or suberect, often 1 m high, the branches sometimes hirsute with long, 
scattered, spreading hairs, never puberulent; leaves elliptic to elliptic- 
oblong, usually retuse at both ends; racemes lax, pods entirely glabrous. 
2. A. vaginalis 
Prostrate or spreading, rarely ascending, the branches usually less than 50 cm 
long; branchlets minutely puberulent; leaves exceedingly variable, acute; 
acuminate, or at least apiculate at the apex, never retuse; racemes dense; 
pods puberulent 3. A. nummular if olius 
1. Alysicarpus bupleurifolius (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 352; Baker in 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 158; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1855) 232; F.-Vill. 
Nov. App. (1880) 61; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 108. 
Hedysarum bupleurifolium Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 745. 
Tetragonolobus sim plicif olius Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 397, ed. 3, 2: 
364 ? 
Fabricia bupleurifoliai O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PL (1891) 181. 
Luzon, Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. 4977 Ramos: Province of Tarlac, 
Merrill s. n. : Province of Rizal, Merrill: Manila, McGregor 62. Mindanao. 
District of Davao, Copeland 363, Williams 2988. 
India and Ceylon, the Mascarene Islands, to southern China, Java, Timor, and 
Polynesia; not reported from the Malay Peninsula. 
Tetragonolobus sim, plicif olius Blanco is referred here with doubt, as the short 
description does not apply in all respects; it is perhaps the same as A. tetragono- 
lobus Edgw., where it was referred by F.-Villar, but I have seen no Philippine 
material at all approaching the latter species, which is definitely known only 
from India. 
