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* Flowers in many-jloicerei terminal anS, axillary racemes which often form terminal 

 panicles. Erect annual herbs. 



D. OBLONGUM, "Wall. Ava and Pogn. 



Stems and under side of leaves sparingly and appressedl)' greyisli pubescent. 

 Panicle glandular-puberulous. Pods glabresceut. 



D. ArRiCA>-s, Grab. Coast of Arakan and Tenasserim. 



-D. aarieomiini, Grab., Wall. Cat. .570-1. 



Stems and peduncles spreadingly tawny pilose. Pods tawny pilose. 



** Flowers few, axillary or in leaf-opposed racemes. Front rate or diffuse herbs. 



D. MicEopnyLLUM, Thbg. Toonzaleen at 2500 feet. 



D. parvifolium, DC. 



Flowers in leaf-opposed and spuriously terminal simple or branebed racemes. 

 Lcaliets very small. 



D. KEPTANS, Burm. Pegu and Tenasserim. 



D. heferophylluni, DC. 

 1). trijiorum, W.A. 



Flowers usually yellowisli, by 1-4 on a longer or sborter axillary peduncle, wbicb 

 is longer than the leaves. 



D. TKiFLORirar, L. From Chittagong to Tenasserim ; 



Hedysarum siipulaccum, Burm. (introduced into the Andamaus). 



Flowers usually puq)le or rose-coloured, by 1-G in the leaf-axils. 

 B. Pod-joints not dehiscing in any way. 



* Flowers in terminal and axillary racemes, often collected into panicles. Bracts 

 small, deciduous or rarely persistent. 



Sub-genus Eu-desjiodium, DC. 



Shrubs, under shrubs or herbs, the leaves 1-3-foliolatc. Petiole not winged. Fods 

 various, many-jointed, the joints variously shaped, but never quite sc^uare. 



* Fods and ovary quite glabrous, the joints more or less deeply indented on the loiver 

 suture, the basal one very shot tly stalked. 



X Leaves simple, broader than long, oblate to reniform. 



D. oiiLATUM, Bak. Along streams in Ava, Pegu Ilills and Martaban. 



F). reniforme, Wall. Cat. " vix DeCan. certissime non Burm." 

 Flowers 3 lines long, sky-blue, on capillary glandular pedicels J--} inch long. 

 Pod-joints deeply indented at the lower suture. 



D. KENIFOKME, L. 



Flowers small, white, on pedicels l|-2 lines long. Pod-joints slightly iudenled 

 at the lower suture. 



All Burmese .specimens seen by me belong to tlie preceding species. I myself 

 gathered the true Burmaunian plant only in the Terai-lands of Sikkim (Kurz). 



X X Leaves oblong to oblong -lanceolate. 



D. SUBSTIPULACEUM, Bl. Nat-toung East of Toung-ngoo {fide Mason). 



D. stipulaceum, Miq. 

 Sedysarum mucronatum, Bl. 



Leaves simple, or the lower ones 3-foliolate. Eacomes slender, in dilfusc 

 terminal panicles. Pod-joints elliptical, 2 lines long by l.V broad. 



This species greatly resembles the American D. stipulaceum, DC. It diflVrs in 

 its stouter stature and its broad ovate (uot linear-subulate) calyx-lobes. The pod- 



