268 CALYCIFLOR^. 



with tlie shorter hairs hooked. Leaflets elliptic, obtuse, api- 

 culated, villous beneath with the hairs appressed, ciliated. 

 Stipules 2, broad-falciform, attenuate, coloured, ciliated: stipels 

 linear. Petiole terete, compressed, striated, hirsute with 

 hooked hairs. Racemes axillary and terminal. Common 

 peduncle terete, hirsute with hooked hairs. Pedicels 2-3 

 together, filiform. Bracteas small, linear. Flowers small. 

 Calyx irregularly 5-fid, iiairy. Standard and wings purple, 

 keel green. Legume 6-jointed, spirally twisted, hispid with 

 hooked hairs. 



According to De Candolle, the stem is somewhat glabrous. 



4. Desmodium ellipticum. Oval-leaved Desmodium. 



Stem sufFruticose rooting towards the base after- 

 wards ascending sub-glabrous, leaflets elliptic pu- 

 berulous, stipules subfalcato-lanceolate, racemes ter- 

 minal, pedicels solitary or 2-3 together, calyx 

 ebracteolated, legumes straight hispid with minutely 

 uncinate hairs. 



Hedysarum triphyllum fruticosum minus, Sloane, L 185. t. 

 118. f.l? 



HAB. Shady situations in the mountains. Neighbourhood 

 of St Catherine's Peak. 



FL. May. 



Stem procumbent and rooting at the base, afterwards ascend- 

 ing, about a foot in height, sufFruticose, branched : branches 

 subsimple, slightly compressed, minutely puberulous. Leaflets 

 petiolulated, (the terminal one the largest), elliptic, puberulous: 

 petiole sub-3-gonal, slightly channelled above, puberulous. 

 Stipules lanceolato-falcate (the side next to the petiole straight 

 the other curved), setaceo-attenuated at the apex, striated, 

 ciliated: stipels setaceous. Racemes terminal, elongated (about 

 8 inches in length), subsimple, many-flowered. Peduncle com- 

 pressed striated, hispid with minutely uncinate hairs : pedicels 

 1 or 2-3-4 together, about I an inch in length, filiform, hispi- 

 dulous. Bracteas at the base of the pedicels, broad-ovate, acu- 

 minate, ciliated, deciduous. Calyx ebracteolated, 24ipped ; 

 upper lip bifid, with the teeth minute and approximating ; under 

 lip deeply 8- partite with the divisions lanceolate, spreading ; all 

 of them partially hirsute on the back. Standard reflected, 

 roundish, emarginate, purple marked with 2 oblong whitish spots 

 near the base: wings auriculated on the upper edge near the base, 

 and adhering to the keel at the under: keel in 2 pieces, cohering 

 near the apex, of the same size as the wings. Stamens 9 and 1 : 

 anthers roundish, yellow. Ovary pubescent: style longer than the 

 stamens: stigma obtuse, sub-capitate. Legume 4-jointed, hispid. 



This plant agrees in some respects with the Hedysarum 



