494 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIONS. 



P. HEDYSAEOiDEs, R. Br. Tenasserim. 



P. nervosa, W.A. 



f f Pod compressed. 



PsEUD.UJXnRIA. 



Tods flat with straight sutures. Fowcrs in terminal racemes. Herbs. 

 P. TiscTDA, L. Upper Tenasserim. 



° ° Pods distinctly jointed. 



f Pod-joints in a line, not folded itp. 



Desmodium, Besratix. 



Pod joints flat or slightly convex, dehiscent or indehiscent. Puccmes terminal or 

 axillary and terminal. Leaves 3- rarely 1-f'oliolate. 



A. Pod joints dehiscing along the ventral suture. 



Suh-genus PLEUEOLOBruir, DC. 



Pod-joints dehiscing along the more or less indented suture, distinctly separated 

 or continuous, and the separation indicated by a transverse line only. Injlorescetice in 

 a young state conspicuously imbricate-bracted. 



* All bracts deciduous. Pods contiiiiioiis, the joints marked only ly transverse lines. 

 Erect shrubs or herbs. 



D. GYEOiDES, DC. Arakan, Pegu, and Tenasserim. 



D. pseudo-ffyroides, Miq. 



Shrub, the leaflets one-coloured. Flowers pui'ple. Pod-joints 2J- lines long by 

 3 broad, densely and shortly hirsute. 



D. GTRANS, Lamk. From Chittagong to Tenasserim. 



Annual or biennial, the leaves as often 1- as 3-foliolato, with the two lateral 

 leaflets much reduced, leaflets white variegated. Flowers pale yellow, turuiug pale 

 brick-coloured. Pod-joints about '2A- lin. long and broad, shortly aud sparingly hirsute. 



** Lowermost bracts of youiiy inflorescences more or less persistent. Pods distinctly 

 jointed. 



D. nETEROCAErUM, L. 

 J), polyeurpum, DC. 

 Iledysarum pnrpurcum, Roxb. 

 I), patens, Wight. 



Leaves 3-foliolato, the leaflets elliptical to oblong. Fruiting pedicels erect. 

 Racemes elongate. 



var. a genuinum. Brandies and leaves beneath only thinly appressed-pubescent. 

 Pods glabrous with fringed edges, or sparingly and minutely stitf-luiirj-. 



var. ft trichocaulon, Bak. Branches densely and spreadingly pilose, tlie leaves 

 beneath appresscd jiilose. The rest as in var. o. 



var. 7 cdpitatum, DC. Branches and leaves beneath more or less silvery 

 pubescent, the leaflets smaller. Pods jniberulous. 



var. n common in all leaf-shedding forests, especially the mixed ones, entering 

 also the savannahs and cultivated lands, all over Burma and the adjacent islands. 

 var. ft Ava hills, var. 7 Arakan. 



D. EETEOFLEXUM, L. Tcuasserim. 



Leaves 1-3-foliolate, the leaflets more or less orbicular. Frniting pedicels 

 refracted. Racemes shorter than the leaves. 



Sub-genus Sagotia, Walp. 



Pod-joints dehiscing along the lower more or less indented suture. Young 

 inflorescence not conspicuously bracted. 



