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CAPPARIDACEAE. 
CAPPARIS L. 
CAPPARIS CORDIFOLIA Lam. Encycl. 1 (1785) 609. 
Capparis mariana Jacq. Hort. Schoenbr. 1 (1797) 57, t. 109; Blanco 
FI. Filip, ed. 2 (184-5) 305; F.-Vill. Noviss. App. (1880) 11; Safford 
in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 212. 
Capparis baducca Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 438, non Linn. 
Capparis spinosa var. mariana K. Scb. in Engl. Jabrb. 9 (1887) 201; 
K. Scb. & Lauterb. Deutscb Scbutzgeb. Siidsee (1901) 335. 
Blanco knew tbis species only from Paranaque, where it was cultivated 
in bis time, tbe seeds having been brought from the Marianne Islands; it 
is still cultivated in Paranaque (Guerrero, Sept., 1911), although not in 
great quantities, but I have seen no specimens from any other place. It is 
reported from the Marianne Islands, Guam, from the Caroline Islands, 
Kuschai and Ualan, from the Marshalls Islands, Nawodo, and from Timor. 
It may be only a variety of the European Capparis spinosa L., as considered 
by K. Schumann, but whatever its status, Lamarck’s specific name is 
unquestionably the oldest one, and the type of Capparis cordifolia was from 
the Marianne Islands. 
LEGUMINOSAE. 
DUNBARIA W. & A. 
DUNBARIA PUNCTATA (W. & A.) Benth. PI. Jungh. (1852) 242. 
Dolichos punctatus W. & A. Prodr. (1834) 247. 
Dolichos conspersus Grab, in Wall. Cat. (1831-32) no. 5542, nomen 
nudum. 
Dunbaria conspersa Benth. 1. c. 241; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 
2 (1876) 218. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Malapad na bato, near Manila, Phil. PI. iS3 
Ramos, September, 1910. 
What is the oldest valid name for this species is here adopted, for 
Dolichos conspersus Grab., as originally used, is only a nomen nudum. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines. India to China, south- 
ward to northern Australia. 
SESBANIA Pers. 
SESBANIA SESBAN (L.) comb. nov. 
Aeschynomene sesban L. Sp. PI. (1753) 714. 
Coronila sesban Willd. Sp. PI. 3 (1806) 1147. 
Sesbania aegyptiaca Poir. in Lam. Encycl. 7 (1806) 128; Pers. Syn. 
2 (1807) 316; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 114; Prain 
in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 ^ (1897) 367. 
Emerus sesban O. Ktze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 180. 
Manila, Shaw, September, 1911. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines; widely distributed in the 
tropics of the Old World, and according to Prain 1. c., the var picta 
(Sesbania picta Cav.), a native of tropical America, introduced in India. 
The Philippine specimen is without doubt the variety typica of Prain, its 
flowers uniformly yellow. The above new combination is necessary if the 
oldest specific name is to be used, for it scarcely forms a “duplicate 
binomial” excluded by the Vienna Code. 
