Desmodium LKi:UMIN<">.i: 39 



calyx, rosy, blue or whitish ; standard long-clawed. Uppermost stamen 

 free or cohering only at the base. Pod '7-1 '3 cm. 1., lower margin 

 indented. 



[D. umbellatum DC. Pnxlr. //'. :>'2~> (l^'2^) ; shrub with terete 

 branches ; leaflets 3 ; flowers in dense shortly-stalked or sessile 

 axillary umbels ; pod with style persistent, upper margin slightly 

 notched; joints 5-1, elliptical, 7-10 mm. 1. B<tk. tout. cit. 161. 

 Hedysarum umbellatum L. tip. PL 747 (1753); Jacq. Hort. 

 Schoenbr. t. 297. Dendrolobimn umbellatum Bertth. in Miq. PL 

 218 (1852) ; Griscb. op. cit. 188. Meibomia umbellata 

 torn. cit. 197 (1891). Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



March \ Native of East Indies, Mascarene isles, Malaya, Philippines, 

 Polynesia. 



Shrub 5-G ft. high, rather showy ; branches, when young, densely 

 downy. Leaflets elliptical to roundish, 5-8 cm. 1. Calyx 4-5 mm. 1. 

 Corolla 1-1 - 2 crn.l. Pod 4-5 cm. L, lower margin indented to the middle, 

 silky or glabrescent. Naturalized according to Grisebach, but we have not 

 seen any specimen from Jamaica, except March's in Herb. Kew.] 



[D. Cephalotes Wall. Cat. n. 5721 (nomen) ; Wight & Am. 

 Prodr. 224 (1834) ; shrub with 3-angled villose branches ; leaflets 3 ; 

 flow r ers in dense shortly stalked axillary umbels ; pod shortly 

 beaked, upper margin slightly notched : joints 2-5, somewhat 

 square or elliptical, 4 mm. \.--WigJd Ic. t. 373-; Bale. toui. <-it. 161. 

 Hedysarum Cephalotes Ptoxb. Fl. Ind. Hi. 360 (1832). Meibomia 

 Cephalotes Kuntze torn. cit. 195 (1891). 



Introduced; above Gordon Town, 1200 ft., Harris ! Fl. Jam. 7889.- 

 East Indies, Malaya, Siam, China. 



A straggling shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high. Leaflets narrowly elliptical to 

 lanceolate, subacuniinate, 5-12 cm. 1. Calyx 4-4*5 mm. 1. Corona deep 

 red, 7-8 mm. 1. Pod - 8-l'5 cm. L, silky or glabrescent.] 



[D. triquetrum DC. Prodr. ii. 326 (1825) ; leaflet single ; 

 petiole winged. Bak. toui. cit. 163. Hedysarum triquetrum 

 L. Sp. PL 746 (1753). Meibomia triquetra Kuntze tout. cit. 197 

 (1891). Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



In fl. at end of year; naturalized; Mt. Airy, 3000ft.; between Mt. 

 Airy and Brandon Hill, 1000 ft. (growing on trees) ; Harris ! Prospect Hill, 

 2000 ft. ; Thompson ! Fl. Jam. 6373, 7460, 7957. Native of East Indies, 

 China, Philippines. 



t'/(b 3-4 ft. high ; branches more or less triquetrous. Leaflets lanceo- 

 late or ovate, -5-2 dm. 1. PMCCVICS terminal and axillary, 1 -5-3 dm. 1. 

 Flowers pink. Calyx 3 mm. 1. Corolla about 5 mm. 1. Pod thin, 

 indehiscent, splitting into joints, 2 '5-3 cm. 1., 5-7 mm. br. ; joints 

 nearly square.] 



[LOUREA Neck. 



Leaves 3 foliolate (reduced usually to a single 2-lobed leaflet 

 in L. vespcrtilioms Desv.). Racemes terminal. Calyx 5 -fid, at 



