Desmodium 



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Fl. Lid. Oci-. 1263. Meibornia adscendens Kuntze R< 3 v. Gen. PL i. 

 195 (1891). 



Infl. May; Wrirjlitl B rough ton ! Catherine's Peak, Macfadyen ! Hope- 

 well, St. Mary, McMzft ! Wilson ! Claverty Cottage, J.P. 1446, Hart \ Port 

 Antonio, Hitchcock. West Indies, tropical continental America. 



Branches to about 1 ft. high, pubescent, or minutely puberulous, with 

 spreading hairs, or glabrate. Leaflets elliptical, broadly elliptical, or 

 obovate-elliptical, puberulous with adpressed hairs, but few on the upper 

 surface ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, acuminate. Racemes long, 1-2 dm. 1., 

 terminal, laxly flowered. Bracts ovate, acuminate, soon falling. Pedicels 

 usually 2 together, -5-1 cm. 1. Calyx puberulous, 2-5 mm. 1. Corolla 

 about twice as long as the calyx ; standard purple marked with 2 whitish 

 spots near the base. Uppermost stamen free. Pod straight, lower margin 

 wavy to the middle, puberulous with minute hooked hairs. 



_'. D. supinum DC. Prodr. ii 332 (1825); stem suberect or 

 lecumbent ; leaflets 3, oblong-elliptical, whitish beneath ; stipules 

 united halfway, at length free ; flowers in lax racemes ; upper 



Fig. 10. Desmodium supinum DC. 

 \ . Portion of (lowering branch x . D, Stamens and pistil x 7. 



B, Flower x f>. 

 ''. \Vin- X 5. 



E, Pod X I;. 



margin of pod continuous ; joints 5-7, semielliptical to semi- 

 circular, about 1 nun. 1. Urb. loc. cit. D. incanum DC. he. <//. , 

 Benth. ioni. <-/t. 98 ; Grixcb. loc. cit. Onobrychis americana tfec. 

 Plulc. Phijt. t. 308, /. 5 & Aim. L'70. Hedysaram foliis ternatis 

 &c. L. llort. Cliff. 3G-"). H. triphyllum fruticosum supinum itc. 

 Shane Cut. "'! i\r Hixt. I. 185, /. 118, /. 2. H. canescens L. Sp. 



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