Desmopium. LEGUMINOS A. 229 
(occasionally from abortion 1-jointed), much contracted on one suture be- 
tween the joints, even on the other, hispidly pubescent ; joints semi-oblong, 
nearly equal at both ends.—Wight! cat. n. 772, 778, 774. 
We have not been able to find this in Wallich’s List, although n. 772 was 
sent to him by Dr Wight. Its nearest affinity is with D. podocarpum (Wall.! L. 
n. 5711), but in that species the leaflets are acuminated, and the joints of the 
legume semi-obcordate: in both, as well as in some allied North American 
species, as D. nudiflorum and D. canadense, the stamens are monadelphous 
at the base; but that character is not, we fear, exclusively connected with 
the structure of the legume ; at least some species with a similar legume, as 
D. paniculatum, have the stamens distinctly diadelphous from the base: in 
the North American species little attention has, however, been paid to the 
presence or absence of large imbricating bracteas, or to the stamens being 
monadelphous at the base. 
$3. Peduncles axillary or terminal, 1-8-flowered, or bearing a capillary diva- 
ricating raceme. Calyx deeply divided ; segments lanceolate-subulate. 
Stamina monadelphous. Legumes 3-6-jointed, even or repand on the 
one suture, notched into about the middle on the other, dehiscent : joints 
as broad as long.—Suffruticose, Stems procumbent, diffuse, branched, 
filiform. Leaves simple or trifoliolate, small. 
706. (15) D. triflorum (DC.:) procumbent, diffuse: leaves trifoliolate ; 
leaflets orbicular, obovate, or obcordate, more or less pubescent or hairy: 
stipules scariose, lanceolate ; peduncles axillary, solitary or fascicled, 1-3- 
owered: calyx-segments acuminated: vexillum obovate with a long claw : 
style bent acutely near the summit, and tumid at the angle: legume hispidly 
pubescent, 3-6-jointed, notched into the middle on the lower margin, even 
on the other; joints truncated at both ends.—Wall.! L.n. 5134.—Hedysa- 
rum, n. 297; Linn.! fl. Zeyl.—H. triflorum, Linn. sp. p. 1057.—2, majus ; 
stems hairy ; leaflets roundish or obovate, pubescent ; peduncles usually so- 
itary, sometimes in pairs, longer than the leaves, 1-3-flowered ; legumes 3—4- 
Jomted, straight.— Wight ! cat. n. 779 (partly), 781.—D. heterophyllum, DC. 
prod. 2. p. 334 ; Wall. L. n. 5101 .—Hedysarum heterophyllum, Willd. sp. 3. 
P. 1201.—H. reptans, Roa. fl. Ind. 8. p. 354. Burm. Zeyl. t. 54. f. 1.—6, mi- 
nus ; stems hairy ; leaflets obcordate, glabrous on both sides * peduncles sim- 
ple, 3-6, fascicled, shorter than the leaves ; legumes 5—6-jointed, slightly re- 
curved.— Wight ! cat. n. 777, 779 (partly).—D. triflorum, DC. I. c.—Hedysa- 
rum triflorum, Willd. l. c. p. 1202; Spr. syst. 3. p. 318; Roxb. l. c. p. 353; 
n E. I. C. mus. tab. 405.—D. stipulaceum, Burm. Ind. t. 54. f. 2.—/Eschy- 
nomene triflora, Poir.— Burm. Zeyl. t. 54. f. 2.—y, villosum; whole plant, 
except the upper surface of the leaves, covered with long white silky hairs ; 
ets obovate, emarginate ; peduncles simple, fascicled, about 3 together, 
shorter than the leaves ; legume recurved.— Wight! cat. n. 778. ? 
most common and widely distributed plant, which in India supplies the 
place of the species of Trifolium and Medicago in Europe, springing up in all 
Soils and situations, varying much in size and degree of pubescence as well 
4s In inflorescence according to its place of growth and the season of the 
year: we have therefore no Wealtation in following Linnzeus in the Flora Zey- 
lanica; and we feel convinced that its subdivision into species originated in 
a practice among authors of making descriptions from solitary specimens of 
erent forms, instead of from a series of them. 
707. (16) D. parvifolium (DC. :) procumbent, diffuse: branches triangular, 
usually very hairy Marce red escis leaves trifoliolate ; leaflets from 
. Oval to orbicular, mucronate, clothed with adpressed white hairs principally on 
e lower side : stipules scariose, about the but of the petiole, lanceolate, 
le-pointed : racemes terminal or leaf-opposed, lax few-flowered, capillary, 
