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pules very much acuminate, racemes axillary and 

 terminal elongated lax, legumes somewhat erect with 

 joints roundish tortuous hispid. 



Hedysarum erectiim triphyllum, Sloane, I. t. 116. f. 9. — H. 

 caulescens erectum triphyllum, floribus minimis, Browne, 301. — 

 H. tortuosum, Sivartz, Fl. hid. Occ. 1273. — H. B. et Kunth, 

 VI. 521. — Desmodium tortuosum, De Cand. Prod. II. 332. 



HAB. Common. 



FL. After the May and Autumnal rains. 



Herbaceous, suffrutescent at the base, erect, about two feetbigh, 

 subdivided, angulose, striated, hispid. The terminal leaflet the 

 largest, ovali-oblong, with the apex obtuse and terminating in 

 a setaceous awn, hispid on both sides with minute hooked 

 hairs, hirsute with straight hairs along the under surface of the 

 nerves, ciliated : common petiole of the same length as the 

 middle leaflet, striated, hispid with minutely hooked hairs : pe- 

 tiolules short, hispid. Stipules an inch in length, ovato-falcate, 

 very much attenuated at the apex, oblique, purpureo-striatu- 

 lated, ciliated : stipels lineari-lanceolate, 8-nerved, ciliated. 

 Racemes axillary, and terminal, very long, loose, many-flower- 

 ed. Pedicels in twos, about an inch in length, capillary, his- 

 pidulous with resinous amber-coloured globules intermixed, 

 one-flowered. Bracteas at the base of the pedicels, lineari- 

 lanceolate, ciliated, deciduous. Flowers small in proportion 

 of a pale azure colour. Calyx hispid, and with resinous 

 globules among the hairs ; segments lanceolate, attenuato-acu- 

 minate, ciliated. Pod somewhat erect, elongated, twisted ; 

 joints roundish, hispidulous with hooked hairs. 



The above description diff^ers in no material respect from 

 that of Swartz. Bertero was the first to point out that the 

 hairs were hooked. It is a very common weed in the intervals 

 of cane-pieces. 



3. Desmodium molle. T^iUous Desmodium, 



Stem erect roundish hirsute with hairs straight 

 and hooked, leaves ovate attenuated villous beneath 

 with the hairs appressed, racemes terminal and axil- 

 lary, pedicels 3-nate, legumes when young tortuous 

 hispid with hooked hairs, joints rhomboid, the ter- 

 minal one suborbiculate larger at length glabrous. 



Hedysarum molle Vahl, Sijmb. II. p. 83. 

 HAB. Common weed in the Cane pieces of Guanaboa, St 

 John's. 



FL. End of Year. 



Stem suffruticose, 2-3 feet higli, sub-ramose, terete, hirsute 



