Desmodium.] 



XL. LEGUAllXOS^. 235 



W Australia. Islands of tlie Gulf of Carpentaria, R.Brown; Arnhem's Land, F. 



Mueller; fQxt^&smgton, Armstrong. 

 Queensland. Endeavour river, Ba7iks and Solander ; E. coast, A. Cunningham. 



14. D. polycarpum, DC. Trod. ii. 334. An erect decumbent or as- 

 cending perennial or undershrub, 1 to 2 or 3 ft. high or rarely more, more or • 

 less pubescent with short appressed or scarcely spreading hairs. Leatiets 3, 

 the terminal one obovate or elliptical, \\ to 2 in. long, the lateral ones usually 



• smaller. Stipules striate, acuminate. Eaceraes terminal, dense, 1 to near 3 

 m. long, often several together forming a short panicle. Bracts broad lan- 

 ceolate, imbricate at first, but falling off before the flowers expand. Flowers 

 purple,^ crowded, 3 to 4 lines long. Pods crowded, erect, hairy or glabrous, 

 about jj to f in. long, the upper suture continuous, the lower indented ; arti- 

 cles about 4 to 6, flat, usually opening at the lower edge when ripe.— W. and 

 Arn. Prod. 227 ; Wight, Ic. t. 406. 



Pr?M^*''^^u-n'*" ^'""^y '-'^P^' ^'■°^*^ Sound, and Northumberland Island, R. Brown ; 



loudciice Hill, F. Mueller .- Rockhamptou, T/iozet. Extends over the whole of E. India, 



ine Archipelago, and the Pacific Islands. To the numerous svnonvms adduced by Wight 



and Araott must probably be added Hedysarum tuherculomm. Labill. Sert. Austr. Caled. 



15. D. trichocaulon, DC. Prod. ii. 335. Very nearly allied to B. po- 

 ycarpum, with a similar foliage and tiie erect pods the same, but the stems 



• ,1^^ generally decumbent, more slender, and clothed as in D. Muelleri with 



o"g soft spreading hairs, and the racemes much looser and slender. 



BiiSm^^'^*^*^*^" ^"^''™^ river, Moretou Bay, F. Mueller, Leichhardt, C. Stuart. Not 

 thoiir>-!,"f'^ "* ^'"^^'^' "^'^'■^ *'^'^ above-mentioned ditferences appear to be constant, al- 

 "oQ It may possibly prove to be a \ariety only of D. polycarpum. 



cpn r' ^* ^^®^^®", Bentli. Steins branching at the base, apparently as- 

 nuing or erect, clothed as well as the racemes with long soft spreading hairs, 

 ne joung shoots almost silky. Leaflets 3. oblong, obtuse, ^ to 1^- in. long, 

 Kauious or loosely pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, softly hairy, 

 ^cemes terminal, slender; pedicels distant, solitary, filiform, spreading. 

 bfSI" ti "''a ' ^''^"^^o^''»te, acuminate, imbricate at first, but falling off long 

 loh I "9^^'cr expands. Calyx nearly 1 line long, the subulate-acuminate 

 11- ,7^g'^^ t'lan the tube. Pod sessile, rather broad, the upper suture 

 seS ■ ^lig^itly thickened, the lower very slightly indented between the 



witl R '^^^^""^"^^ 4 to 6, as broad as long, tmncate at both ends, thin and flat, 

 ]^rl . ^''ansverse veins, separating but apparently opening sometimes at the 

 lower sut ure when ripe. 



Oue^« ^*'■*!j*• ^PP^*" Vi^'toria river, F. Mueller. 



wen river, Bowman. 



fui; Parvifolium, DQ. Prod. ii. 334. A very much-branched dif- 

 *e or prostrate slender annual or perennial, sprinkled with a few silky hairs, 

 obW ^Tf"^ ^'"''•'1 ""^^ crowded ; leaflets 3 or rarely solitary, obovate or 

 tiole Q^r f^"'"^^ » ^^- lo»S or rarely more, on a short filiform common pe- 

 form P"'^^ acuminate, brown and scarious. Flowers small, m short fili- 

 filifnr J''^'^-'"^^' ^^^''^ly terminating short lateral branches ,- pedicels solitary, 

 flowpr """l^' ^'■^^'^ts membranous, acuminate, falling off long before the 



^ expands and seldom seen. Calyx about 1 \ lines long, the lobes acu- 



