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(11) ) Flowers all 1-3 together without a common peduncle in the axils 



of the leaves D. triflorum. 



/3) Flowers some racemed, the others pedicelled in the axils of the 



leaves. (12) 

 j-) Flowers all in lax racemes. (13) 



(12) Leaves 1-foliolate, leaflets broader than long, reuiform. . . D. reniforme. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate, calyx-teeth and pedicels elongated. . . D. heterophyUum. 



(13) D. parvifolium. 



(14) Branches scarcely woody, terminal leaflet usually 4-6 times as long as 



broad, pod glabrescent or inconspicuously downy D. gyrans. 



Branches woody, and leaflets 2-3 times as long as broad, pod loosely 

 but copiously pubescent D. gyroides. 



Species not mentioned in the Key. 



Very graceful, very slender, nearly filiformed, leaves simple, triangularly 

 cordate, thinly chartaceous Z>. cjraciltimum. 



Desmodium Cephalotes WALL. ; BAKER et HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 

 p. 161; HANCE in Journ. Bot. (1880), p. 260; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XII. p. 

 438 ; WIGHT Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 373 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 171 ; MATSUM. et HAY ATA Enura. PL Formos. p. 106. 



HAB. Takow. 



DISTRIB. Common in tropical Asia. 



Desmodium floribundum G. DON ; BAKER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 II. p. 167 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 172. 

 HAB. 

 DISTRIB. China and India. 



Desmodium formosanum HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa 

 p. 77. Branches nearly straight, albicant, dark-tomeutose remotely foliate. 

 Leaves trifoliolate, broadly ovate in outline, 10 cm. long including petioles, 

 7 cm. broad, terminal leaflet oblong-obovate, 6J cm. long, 3| cm. broad, 

 rounded at the apex, aristate at the extremity, (arista 4 mm. long) obtuse at 

 the base, slightly cuueate, entire, depressingly pilose above, shortly villose be- 



