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Besmodium,^ 



L. LEGUMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) 



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Stejns caespitose, diffuse, 1-1^ ft,, densely clothed throughout with spreading brown 

 silky hairs. Leaves subcoriaceous, pale green, nearly glabrous beneath ; end leaflet 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, |-^ in. long; side ones smaller ; petiole^ in. Bace77ies tev- 

 minal, 2-3 in. long, the lower flowers in distant pairs, upper solitary ; pedicels |-| in, ; 

 bracts lanceolate, I in. Calyx ^ in., shaggy with silky hairs, like those of the stem; 

 teeth linear-setaceous, very long. Pod sessile, silky, under ^ by 3^ in., 4-5-jointed. 



, Sttbgen. 7. Sag^otia, Walp. Trailing herbs, with small 3-foliolate sti- 



i pelJate leaves, flowers in sparse lax racemes or 1-2 in the axils of the leaves, 

 aeciduoiis bracts and distinctly jointed pods. 



Flotcers all 1-3 toff ether ivithout a common jyeduncle in the anvils of the 

 imves. 



^. D. triflorum 



Bentk in 



JM. m. 353. H. stipulaceum, Burm, FL Ind, t. 54 , fig. 2. Nicolsonia reptans, 

 ^«m. in Limi. xxi. 260. Sagotia triflora, Wcdp. ^- Buck, in Linn, xxiii. 



Everywhere in the plains throughout India, ascending to 4000 ft. in Kl-maox and 

 D-7000 ft, in Kashmir and on the Chenab. — Disteib. Cosmopolitan in tropics. 



o!^m5 caispitose, very slender, trailing |~U ft., copiously branched, clothed with 



Jne spreading hairs. Stipules lanceolate, persi^stent ; petiole ^j in. ; leaflets obovate, 



Hj ni., truncate or emarginate, with a few adpressed hairs below. Pedicels ^-^ in. 



ta/y.r pubescent, y\-l in. ; teeth very long, setaceous. Pod |-i in. long, i in. br., 



^-jointed, pubescent; upper suture straight, lower slightly indented. 



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Flotcers some racemed, the others 2^^dicclled in the axils of the leaves. 



renlforme. DC. Prodr. ii. 327: leaves 1-foIiolate, leaflet broader 



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a: ^. .u. renlforme, DC. Prodr. ii. 327; leaves 1-foIiolate, lealiet broader 



S? n ^' calyx-teeth and pedicels short. Wall Cat. 5702 ; W. c^' A. Prodr. 

 "»^5 Dalz, (^ Gibs. Bomb. FL 67, Hedysarimi reuiforme, Linn. Sp. 1051; 



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East Hi:\ulatas, Lobb ; Pkome, Ava on the Banks of the Irrawaddi, Wallich ; 

 '^i^TEHx rRKixsuiA, Wight.— Disthih. Java. 

 half T ^ ^^' ^^ ^^^^' ^°"S' ^^n slender, glabrous. Leaflet rigidly subcoriaceous, 

 lino ^^ ,^^ ^&^^^ J^s long., ^-3 in. long, truncate or emarginate, glabrous ; stipules 

 ^„-!^r' ,^^°^*^e, deciduous: Detiole i in., iointed at the apex. Eacemes mostly ter- 



elaKiv. ^"luuLo; peaiceis g— ^in., nnauy cernuous. L.ary.r uuutx yo !"■» i-uxi^nitiu^, 



strai^i.?\ -^""^^ glal»rous, i-J in. by A in. ; joints 3-5, longer than broad ; upper suture 

 «^^ight, lower little indented. 



te.i^' ?• ^®*©ropliyllum, DC. Prodr. ii. 334; leaves 3-foliolate, coXyx- 

 mal^'itPo^*^'^^^^^ elongated. Wall Cat, 5701, Ay B, B. D. triflorum a. 

 ^m, ir. ^ A. Prodr. ^1'1\) ; Wiqht Ic. t. 2Ul. P. trifloriun, Wall Cat. 5734, 



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• ^yw;ie. D, caespitosiuu, DC. Prodr. ii. 333. Hetlysarum heterophyllum, 

 li S- "^^^ ^^- "^- 6201. II. reptans, Eoxh. Jlort. ' - - — - -' 

 . 'cerma i-epeng, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5740. 



Boiifj. 57 ; -F/. Ind. iii. 354. 





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and m! ^^^^"^"^^^ ^^^P^^^^l zone; Khasia and AssA:\r and along the gulf to Pkxaxo 

 'Winn. ^*^^''^^^^^'"s of PEj^iNsriA and CEyLOX.-DiSTRiB. Malay isles, China, Phi- 



*X ^««earene isles. . .„ 

 Jpw/a i^--~V^'^^^&<^opio"-'^ly branched, clot^^ dense spreading hairs. iSt- 



fi 4?Hfianccolate;acuminate, persi.^tent ; petiole f-i in., pubescent; leaflets 



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