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MERRILL. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, .For. Bur. 1955 Borden, Merrill 3098, For. Bur. 5 If 
Barnes, Bur. Sci. 1611 Foxworthy: Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 3324 Ahern’s 
collector: Manila, McGregor 65. Panay, Yoder 31. 
Almost universally known in the Philippines as sincamas, ex Blanco also 
hicamas. 
A species now widely distributed in the Tropics of the world, probably of 
American origin; thoroughly naturalized in the Philippines and very abundant. 
The oldest generic name is Cacara (Rumph.) Thou. (1805), but Pachyrrhizus 
Rich. (1825) is here retained in accordance with the list of nomina conservanda 
of the Vienna Botanical Congress. 
90. PSOPHOCARPUS Neck. 
1. Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 403; Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 181; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 211; F.-Vill. 
Nov. App. (1880) 66; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 90. 
Dolichos tetragonolobus Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1763) 1020; Blanco FI. Filip. 
(1837) 576, ed. 2 (1845) 402, ed. 3, 2:374; Naves 1. c. ed. 3, pi. 293. 
Botor tetragonoloba 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 162. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bolster 183, For. Bur. 16605, 16159 Curran: 
Province of Pangasinan, Bur. Sci. 4860, 4864 Ramos: Province of Bataan, Merrill 
3313: Manila, Merrill 646, McGregor 41, 50: Masbate, Merrill 3401. Palawan, 
For. Bur. 3614 Curran. Negros, For. Bur. 13659 Curran. 
Native names: Cigcurrillos (widely used) ; segadella (Negros) ; amale (Caga- 
yan) ; calamismis, pal-lam, ex Blanco. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines, cultivated and naturalized; probably 
introduced. India to Malaya, etc., frequently cultivated. 
Psophocarpus palustris Desv. has been reported from the Philippines by 
F.-Villar (Nov. App. 66), but I have seen no specimens. 
The generic name Psophocarpus Neck. (1790), is retained instead of Botor 
Adans. (1763), in accordance with the list of nomina conservanda of the Vienna 
Botanical Congress. 
EXCLUDED GENERA. 
In the “Novissima Appendix” to the third edition of Blanco’s “Flora de Fili- 
pinas,” F.-Villar enumerates the following six species, representing six different 
genera. I have seen no Philippine representatives of any of these genera, and 
they are accordingly here excluded. 
Acrocarpus eraxinieolius Wight; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 74. Known 
from India and Sumatra. 
Cicer arietinum L. ; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 62. Said by F.-Villar to be 
cultivated in Luzon and Panay. If the species occurs in the Philippines at all, 
then it will be only' as an introduced plant. 
Dialium laurinum Baker; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1,882) 351. A species of the 
Malay Peninsula. 
Mecopus nidulans Benn. ; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 61. Burma to Malaya. 
Neptunia oleracea Lour.; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 73. Cosmopolitan in 
the Tropics. The specimen cited, Cuming 2352, was from Malacca, not from the 
Philippines. 
Parochetus communis Ham.; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 58. India to 
southern China and Java. 
