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DESMODIUM NUTANS. | DroopinG-FLOWERED 
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Class and Order. 
Diapevpuia Decanpria. 
( Nat. Ord. — Lecuminosz. ) 
: Generic Character. 
Cal. basi bibracteolatus ad medium obscure bilabiatus, 
Jabio superiore bifido, inferiore 3-partito. Corolla papi- 
lionacea vexillo subrotundo, carina obtusa non truncata, 
alis carina longioribus. Stamina diadelpha (9 et 1) fila- 
mentis subpersistentibus. Legwmen constans articulis plu- 
rimis ad maturitatem seudentibus compressis monospermis 
membranaceis coriaceisve, non aut vix dehiscentibus. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Desmopium* nutans, fruticosus ramosus, racemis compositis 
terminalibus axillaribusque ramisque pendulis, floribus 
eminatis bracteis acutis, foliis ternatis pendulis, foliolis 
ickitioidele integerrimis utrinque tomentosis, stipulis 
subulatis. , 
Hepysarum nutans. Wallich in Herb. Hook.—Graham in 
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Descr. A low slender shrub, much branched ; branches 
long, straggling, drooping: bark brown, cracked, scaling 
off. Leaves scattered, ternate, leaflets rotundato-rhom- 
boidal, undulate, mucronulate, reticulated, soft with a dense, 
‘short down on both sides, the terminal one twice the tt 
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* From d:cuos, a chain, from the bended or articulated appearance of the 
seed vessels. 
