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2. Alysicarpus vaginalis (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 353; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. I 1 (1855) 231; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 158; Trimen FI. 
Ceyl. 2 (1894) 44; Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1897) 132. 
Luzon, Province of Ilocos Norte, Bur. Sci. 2302 Mearns: Province of Bataan, 
Williams 166: Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. 4866 Ramos: Province of Rizal, 
Cuzner 11. 
India and Ceylon to the Malay Archipelago; other distribution doubtful on 
account of more or less confusion, by various authors, with the next. 
3. Alysicarpus nummularifolius (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 353. 
Hedysarum nummularifolium Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 746, in part, excl. FI. Zeyl, 
288, which is Indigofera echinata Willd., fide Trimen. 
Alyscicarpus vaginalis var. nummularifolius Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1855) 232; 
Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 158; Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. 
Beng. 66 2 (1897) 133. 
Fabricia nummular iaefolia O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 181. 
Batanes Islands, Sabtan, Bur. Sci. 3735 Fenix, Bur. Sci. 10133 McGregor. 
Luzon, Province of Zambales, Merrill 320, 320a: Province of Pampanga, Bolster 
48: Province of Bulacan, Yoder 250: Manila, McGregor 71, Merrill 65, 3462, 
Santiago 50: Province of Bataan, Elmer 6778, Merrill 3091, Whitford 407, 
Williams 59: Province of Rizal, Cuzner 12. Mindoro, McGregor 321. Palawan, 
Bur. Sci. 893 Foxworthy. Balabac, Bur. Sci. 413 Mangubat. Cebu, Barrow 
14 ■ Negros, For. Bur. 13717 Curran. Panay, Copeland s. n., Yoder 10. Bohol, 
Bur. Sci. 1243 McGregor. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 8, s. n. : District 
of Cotabato, Copelamd s. n. : District of Zamboanga, Williams 2101. Basilan, 
DeVore & Hoover 37. 
Native names: Manimanihan, Manimani (Manila); banig-usa (Bataan). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines at low altitudes; India and Ceylon to 
southern China and Formosa, the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to Polynesia ; 
introduced in tropical America. 
This was reduced by Miquel as a variety of Alysicarpus vaginalis, in which 
he has been followed by later authors. Prain states that the distinguishing 
characters are the spreading habit and condensed racemes of nummularifolius, and 
the ascending stems and lax racemes of vaginalis, and that the leaf characters 
depended upon by many botanists are not sufficiently constant; so far as our 
material goes, other apparently good characters are the much larger size, retuse 
leaves, and glabrous pods of vaginalis, and the smaller size, acute, acuminate or 
apiculate leaves, and puberulent pods of nummularifolius. 
Specimens identified by Perkins 48 as A. vaginalis are rather A. nummularifolius, 
as well as those so determined by myself. 49 The leaves are exceedingly variable, 
elliptic, ovate, oblong, and even lanceolate ones being sometimes found on the 
same specimen; while on some plants, only elliptic, or ovate, or oblong leaves are 
found. 
The original Hedysarum nummularifolium Linn, is a mixture, but I consider 
that it is typified by the reference to Petiver Gaz. 41, t. 26, f. 4, “Onobrychis 
maderaspat. nummulariae folio, ” from which the specific name was taken. 
Mr. Oakes Ames has kindly supplied me with a tracing of this figure, and it 
unquestionably represents the species as here interpreted. Linnaeus’ first reference 
is to “FI. zeyl. 288,” and the specimen in Hermann’s Herbarium is Indigofera 
echinata Willd. 60 
48 Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 19. 
49 This Journal 1 (1906) Suppl. 65; 1. c. 3 (1908) Bot. 410. 
60 Trimen FI. Ceyl. 2 (1894) 21. 
