162 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Desmodium. 
hairy.—Hedysarum gangeticum and maculatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1051-2. 
H. lanceolatum, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 360. 
Upper Guinea. Gold Coast, Thonning, Burton! Irving! Princes Island, Dr. 
Welwitsch! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schweinfurth! : 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi land, Dr. Meller ! 
A common Indian and Malayan species. 
6. D.lasiocarpum, DC. Prod. ii. 328. An erect undershrub 3-6 
ft. high, the branches robust, sulcate, scarcely woody, densely brown- 
nubescent. Stipules 8-4 lines long, subulate from a much dilated base. 
etioles stout, densely pubescent, 4—6 lines long; leaves simple, ovate, 
4—5 in. long, 2-3 in. pad the base much rounded, often cordate, 
slightly repand, point bluntish, coriaceous, upper surface scabrous, 
lower glaucous, soft with fine silky pubescence, the veins and veinlets 
raised. Racemes dense, sessile, narrow, axillary and terminal, the 
latter compound. SBracts minute, setaceous. Pedicels a line long, 
slender, erecto-patent. Calyx about the same length, densely silky, 
the teeth lanceolate, reaching about halfway down. Corolla reddish, 
twice as long as the calyx. Pod $—? in. long, } in. broad, with 4 or 2 
articulations, the lower suture waved quite halfway down, the faces 
densely hispid.—Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 207. D. latifolium, DC. 
Prod. lc. Hedysarum latifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 850. H. deltoides, 
Poir. Enc. Suppl. v.15. H. deltoideum, Schum. et Thonn. Pl}. Guin. 361. 
Anarthrosyne cordata, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 39, t. 7. 
Upper Guinea, Sierra Leone, Smeathmann! Afzelius! Senegambia, Leprieur 
and Perrottet! Heudelot! Guinea proper, Vogel! Barter! and others. 
Wile Land. Nubia, Petherick! Knoblecher. 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Golungo Alto, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Zanzibar and Mozambique, Dr. Peters! 
A common Indian and Malayan species, 
7. D. ascendens, DC. Prod. ii. 332. An undershrub 3-4 ft. high 
with ascending woody branches, thinly pubescent upwards. Stipules 
lanceolate acuminate, 3—4 lines long. Petiole } in. long, firm, subgla- 
brous; leatlets 8, obovate, $-1 in. long, sometimes nearly as broad as 
eee apex rounded, often emarginate, subcoriaceous, upper surface 
glabrous, lower nearly so or finely adpressed grey-silky. Racemes 
lax, axillary and terminal, stalked, ultimately half a foot long. Bracts 
ovate cuspidate, equalling the pedicels, which are very slender 4-6 
lines long, spreading ultimately from the rachis at right angles. Calyx 
s in. deep, thinly silky, the teeth linear, reaching down nearly to the 
base. Corolla reddish, twice as long as the calyx. Pod }~8 in. long, 
a line broad, the joints 3-6, the lower suture waved halfway down, the 
faces thinly hairy.—D. racemiferum, DC, Prod. l.c. D. oxalidifolium, 
G. Don, Gard. Dict. ii. 295; Fl. Nigr. 295. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Heudelot! (Guinea proper, Vogel! Fernando Po, 
Mann! St. Thomas, Don! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 
Lower Guinea. Highlands of Huilla, Dr. Welwitsch! 
A common American species, not known elsewhere in the Old World. 
