Anarthrosyie.] LEGUMINOSZ (Harv.) 229 
gined, pubescent, joined by narrow bands. Wight. Ic. t.985. D. Caffrum, 
EH. & Z.! No. 1662. 
' Has. Makasani-river, Caffr., Z. g Z./ Port Natal, Gueinzius. (Herb. Sond.) 
“*3 feet high, simple.” Stem weak, angular, more or less pubescent or hispidulous. 
Leaflets 2-3 inches long, membranous, 1}—2 inches wide. Panicle a foot or more 
long, terminal, very lax. #. § Z.’s specimens are rather more robust and hairy than 
the Indian, but those from (ueinzius exactly agree with Ceylon individualsin Herb. 
pe The joints of the legume are almost half-moon shaped, but narrowed to 
one end. 
4. D. setigerum (Benth.!); subherbaceous, diffuse, the stem patently 
hirsute; leaves on shortish petioles, pinnately 3-foliolate; leaflets broadly 
obovate, obtuse, appressedly pilose on both sides ; stipules scarious, lanceo- 
late, acuminate, stipelle setaceous; racemes (paniculate) terminal and 
axillary, very long and lax, remotely flowered; pedicels 2—3 together, 
filiform, elongate; calyx setose, subequally 5-fid ; legume 4—5 jointed, 
joints ovato-subrotund, pubescent, the intermediate constrictions deep. 
Nicolsonia setigera, H. Mey.! 1. ¢. 
Has. Grassy places near Omsamwubo, Drege / Coast land of Natal, Sutherland ! 
Sanderson / (Herb. Hk., Sd., D.) 
Stems weak, suberect or spreading, 1-2 feet long, roughly pubescent, with foxy 
hairs. Leaflets 1-1} inch long, 3-1 inch wide, scarcely paler beneath. Racemes 
often 12 inches long, the pedicels an inch apart, and nearly or quite an inch long, 
very slender. Joints of the legume 1 line or rather more in diameter. 
5. D. natalitium (Sond. in Linn. vol. 23, p. 32); suffruticose, decum- 
bent, slender, hispido-pubescent ; leaves on longish petioles, wnifolro- 
late; leaflet. cordate-ovate, subacute, scaberulous above, sparsely pilose, 
netted veined, and paler beneath; stipules subulate, acuminate, stipelle 
setaceous ; racemes terminal, long and lax ; pedicels sub-binate, erect, 
scarcely longer than the flower; calyx pubescent, bilabiate ; legume 
5-8-jointed, joints ovato-subrotund, pubescent, the intermediate con- 
strictions deep. -- 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius/ (Herb. Sond.) es 
The smallest and most slender of the South African species. Stems filiform. 
Petioles nearly uncial ; leaflet an inch long, } inch wide at base. Racemes 5-6 inches 
long ; pedicels 2-3 lines long. Legumes moniliform, the ventral suture straight, the 
carinal deeply crenate. : 
XLIV. ANARTHROSYNE, E. Mey. 
‘Same as Desmodium, but: Legume compressed, linear-subfalcate, im- 
perfectly articulate, not spontaneously separating into one-seeded frag- 
ments. H. Mey. Comm. p. 124. 
Tropical and subtropical suffrutices and herbs, with the habit of Desmodium» 
from which they are distinguished by the unjointed legume, as the generic name 
(derived from a, privative, and ap@pow, to have joints) signifies. 
1, A. robusta (E. Mey. 1. c.); suffruticose, erect, densely and softly 
tomentose ; leaves on short petioles, 3-foliolate; leaflets broadly ellip- 
tical or oblong, obtuse, pilose above, paler, tomentose and penni-nerved — 
beneath, the lateral unequal-sided; racemes in a terminal panicle, 
cylindrical, elongating, closely flowered, villous; pedicels short; legumes — 
pubescent, slightly constricted. a ee 
