270 CALYCIFLORiE. 



shady places, especially at the base of rocks having a northern 

 aspect. 



FL. Summer months, after rain. 



Stem prostrate, sending off roots opposite to each leaf, siib- 

 tei'ete, hispid with minute hooked hairs. Leaves distant, larger 

 than in the greater number of the genus ; leaflets shortly petio- 

 lulated, obovato-elliptic, wedge-shaped at the base, somewhat 

 rounded and emarginate, with an awn at the apex (the lateral 

 leaves somewhat unequilateral) nerved, subglabrous above 

 (puberulous towards the margin), pale and velutino-pubescent 

 beneath : petiole elongated, sub-'3-gonal, hispidulous with the 

 hairs minutely uncinate. Stipules ovate, acuminate, scariose. 

 Peduncles axillary, subradical, longer than the leaves, about 

 8 inches in length, compressed, striated, coloured, hispidu- 

 lous, with minute uncinate hairs. Racemes about 6 inches 

 in length, of many rather showy purple-crimson flowers : 

 rachis angulose, striated, hispidulous with hooked hairs : 

 pedicels in pairs, nearly an inch in length, filiform, angu- 

 lose, puberulous with minute hairs, which are pellucido-capita- 

 to-glandulose. Bracteas small, one to each pair of pedicels, 

 ovate with the apex attenuated, concave internally, keeled on 

 the back, puberulous, deciduous. Calyx externally puberulous, 

 distinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip ventricose, slightly bifid, with 

 the divisions setaceo-subulate ; under lip 3-partite, with the 

 divisions deltoideo-ovate, attenuated, divaricating. Standard 

 obovate, rounded and slightly emarginate, convex, crimson- 

 purple, with 2 yellow spots near the base ; wings oblong, con- 

 cave ; keel bifid at the apex. Stamen diadelphous ; filaments 

 €i'imson : anthers globular, yellow. Ovary linear, compressed, 

 puberulous : style somewhat hooked : stigma obliquely obtuse. 

 Legume pedicelled, apiculated with a persistent portion of the 

 style, 2-jointed, hispidulous with minute pellucid hooked hairs ; 

 joints rather broad, semiorbiculate. 



7. Desmodium oblongifolium. Ohlong-leafed Des- 



modium. 



Stem herbaceous diffuse terete vllloso-hispid as 

 also the petioles, stipules scariose ovate acuminate, 

 leaflets ovato-oblong acuminate pubescenti-villous, 

 peduncles subradical elongated loosely racemose at 

 the apex, lower pedicels in pairs. — De Cand. 



Bertero, De Cand. Prod. II. 332. 

 HAB. Woods in the higher mountains. 



FL. ? 



This has evidently a great resemblance in character to the 

 preceding species. 



