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examination of the type by Doctor Gagnepain shows that it is 
identical with Roxburgh’s species. Prain 10 thought that Lou- 
reiro’s description did not apply sufficiently closely to Derris 
uliginosa to warrant reducing Loureiro’s species to the latter. 
The examination of the type by Doctor Gagnepain, however, 
definitely settles this matter; and Loureiro’s name, being the 
older, should be retained for this very common, characteristic, 
and widely distributed species. It occurs typically along the 
margins of tidal streams more or less subject to the influence 
of brackish or salt water, from tropical East Africa through 
India to southern China and Formosa, southward through Ma- 
laya to tropical Australia and Polynesia. 
DUN BAR! A Wight and Arnott 
DUNBAR! A ROTUND! FOLIA (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Indigofera rotundifolia Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 458. 
Dolichos conspersus Grah. in Wall. Cat. (1831-32) No. 3342, nomen 
nudum. 
Dunbaria conspersa Benth. in Miq. PI. Jungh. (1852) 242. 
Dunbaria punctata Benth. 1. c. 
Dolichos punctatus Wight & Arn. Prodr. (1834) 237. 
Loureiro’s type was from the vicinity of Canton, and his 
description applies closely to the species currently known as 
Dunbaria conspersa Benth. except that the pods have more than 
two seeds. No other leguminous species known from Kwang- 
tung agrees at all with Loureiro’s description. I have examined 
the following Kwangtung specimens: Merrill 10116, Levine 1111, 
331,5. Loureiro records the Cantonese name as o tam sin; that 
recorded on one of Levine’s specimens is chin tang, not very 
different from Loureiro’s name if the words be reversed. 
MUCUNA Adanson 
MUCUNA COCHINCH I NENSIS (Lour.) A. Chev. in Bull. Agr. Inst. Sci. 
Saigon 1 (1919) 91. 
Marcanthus cochinchinensis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 461. 
Carpopogon niveum Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. 2, 3 (1832) 385. 
Mucuna nivea Wight & Arn. Prodr. (1834) 255. 
Stizolobium niveum 0. Kuntze Rev. Gen. PI. (1891) 207. 
Kwangtung Province, Lin District, Levine 3283, with the local 
name kau chau tau fang. 
Loureiro’s material was from Cochin China, undoubtedly from 
the vicinity of Hue where he resided most of the time while 
10 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1898)' 458. 
