228 : LEGUMINOS A. DEsMODIUM: 
sometimes wanting : petiole slightly margined : stipules acuminated, decidu- 
ous: racemes axillary and terminal, many-flowered: bracteas broadly ovate, 
pointed, pubescent, before expansion densely imbricated: pedicels nearly 
labrous: keel narrow, straight, incurved at the apex, longer than the ale: 
egumes erect, hispid, 5—6-jointed, straight on the one margin, notched into 
the middle on the other.— DC. prod. 2. p. 334 (not Wall.) ; Hook. and Arn.! 
in Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 180; Wight! cat. n. 780, 784, 786, 787, 791, a.—D. 
heterocarpum, DC. l. c. p. 337.—D. capitatum, DC. l. e. p. 336.—D. angula- 
tum, DC. l. c. p. 335 ; Wall.! L. n. 5729 (excl. 0).—D. tenue, Graham ! in 
Wall.! L. n. 5730.—D. serpens, Wall.! L. n. 5133.—D. purpureum, Hoo. 
and Arn. ! 1. c. p. 62.—D. siliquosum, DC. l. c. p. 336.—D. Hippocrepis, DC.? 
l. c. p. 338.—Hedysarum, n. 298, Linn.! fl. zeyl.—H. heterocarpum, Linn. 
sp. p. 1054 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 312.—Hedysarum polycarpum, Lam. ill. t. 628. 
J. 4 ; Poir. enc. meth. 6. p. 413; Spr. l. c. p. 314.—H. capitatum, Burm. Ind. 
p. 167. t. 54. f. 1 ; Spr. l. c. p. 320.—H. conicum, Poir. enc. meth. 6. p. 419.— 
H. siliquosum, Burm. Ind. p. 169. t. 55. f. 2.—H. purpureum, Rowb. fl. Ind. 
3. p. 358 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1279.—Hippocrepis barbata, Lour. ?—Burm. 
zeyl. t. 53. f. 1, 2 ; Pluk. t. 433, f. 3. 
. By an examination of numesous specimens from various parts of the Penin- 
sula and of Bengal, Ceylon, Nepaul, Penang, China, and Gambier's Island in 
the Pacific Ocean, we have now brought together this formidable number of 
synonyms: it is also probable that the list must be yet swelled out, seve 
additional allied species being deseribed by De Candolle without fruit, from 
which good characters in this intricate genus must be principally obtained. 
As to Hed. heterocarpum, Linn., it is remarkable that, among the five speci- 
mens in Hermann's herbarium, from which the original description was taken, 
none show the abortion of the upper joints of the legume: this is however à 
character of no importance, as it is an accident that happens to one raceme 
and not to another on the same branch ; and for this reason we have retained 
the specific appellation given by Lamarck and Poiret, in preference to tha 
by Linneeus. 
,104. (13) D. rufescens (DC.:) shrubby: branches, racemes, bracteas, pe- 
icels, stipules, petioles, and nerves of the leaves beneath, densely cloth 
with yellowish-brown tomentum: leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets oval, obtuse 
with a long bristle ; upper side glabrous; under densely clothed except t 
nerves with adpressed silky white hairs, especially when young: stipules c2- 
ducous: racemes axillary and terminal, many-flowered: bracteas ovate, ber 
pering to a long subulate point, before expansion densely imbricated, s008 
caducous : vexillum large, obcordate: ale as long as the broad keel: legum? 
pubescent, about 7-jointed, straight on the one suture, notched into the mid- 
dle on the other.— DC. prod. 2. p. 335 ; Wight! cat. n. 785.—D. ferrugineum, 
n ies L. n. 5732.—Hedysarum rufescens, Spr. syst. suppl. p. 292, —Neel- 
gherries. 
A very elegant species, with pretty large flowers. 
c. Leaves trifoliolate : legumes even or repand on the one margin, Very deeply 
notched on the other ; joints semi-oblong or rhomboid, longer than broad. 
705. (14) D. strangulatum (W. & A. :) herbaceous, erect ?: branches hairy, 
somewhat 3-angled, angles obtuse : leaves 3-foliolate, long-petioled : leaflets 
pubescent on both sides, lateral ones obliquely ovate, terminal one rhomboid : 
stipules scariose, oblong-lanceolate, concave, glabrous: racemes hairy, 
lary and terminal, panicled, at first oblong and imbricated with large oblong 
concave hairy bracteas, afterwards becoming very long and lax, few-flower- 
ed: flowers 2-3 together, on long filiform pedicels : ¢ yx campanulate, bila- 5 
biate ; upper lip emarginate, under deeply cleft: vexillum obovate ; ale e RU 
er than the keel: stamens monadelphous from the base to the middle, diad! TE 
eE 
phous towards the apex : ovary stipitate, about 4-ovuled : legume 2 
