498 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



Branclilets sharply triquetrous. Pods glabrous or pubescent along the sutures 

 or all over. 



var. a genubmm. Pods more or less • greyish hirsute or villous, larger and 

 usually somewhat curved. Flowers larger. 



var. /i pseiido-tfiquctrum, DC. Pods glabrous or pubescent only on the edges, 

 shorter and straight. Flowers smaller. 



* * Flowers clustered or in sessile or pedimcled umbels in the axils of the leaves or in 

 the axils of hract-like floral leaves. 



Sub-genus Dendkolobit;!!, W. A. 



Flowers in dense sessile or peduncled axillary umbels or clusters. Bracts minute 

 or deciduous. Zmre's piimately 3-foliolate. Pods 5-1-jointed, apiH'cssed pubescent. 



"*■" Pods normally '2-1-jointed. Under shrubs {Dicerma). 



D. BiAETicrLATuii, F. Muell. Ava. Menghoon and Paglia-myo. 



Flowers by 2-4 or fewer, clustered in the leaf-asils, and passing into terminal 

 leafy racemes. 



* '■" Pods 2-5- {only occasionally \-) jointed. Shrubs or trees [Pendroluhium p'oper'). 



D. CEPHALOTES, "Wall. Arakau. Pegu. Ava. 



Hedysaruin umbellatum, Eoxb. 

 I), co/igestuin, Wall. 



Flowers in sessile clusters. Pod-joints only 2 lines long. 



D. uiuiELLAiuir, L. The Xicobars, Andamans and Tenasserim, re-appearing 



on the limestone hills of Segain (Ava). 

 Flowers in peduncled umbels. Pod-joints about 4 lines long. 



Sub-genus PnyLLonirii, Desv. 



Flowers clustered or umbellate, in the axils of bract-like large floral leaves, which 

 are comijlicately 2-foliolate, persistent, and placed disticliously. Leaves pinnately 3- 

 or rarely 1-foliolate. Pods 2-4-jointed. 



"'•' Pods pubescent or villoiis-pubesccnt. 

 D. GKAXDE, Kz. Ta-goung (Ava). 



Leaflets 3-5 inches long, acuminate. Pods villously pubesceut. 

 D. VESTITUM, Bth. Tenasserim, 



Leaflets 1-2 inches long, rounded or almost refuse. 



^'^ Pods fflabroHs except on the margin. 



D. PTjLCHEiLrM, Bth. All over Burma and the Andamans. 



Leaves pinnately 3- or occasionally 1-foliolate, the petiole only 2-3 lines long. 

 Pods glabrous, net-veined. 



Kurz also adds from the Xicobars : 



D. poLTCAEPrM, DC. Kamorta and Great Nicobar. 



D. HETEEOPHTLLDir, DC. Kamorta. 



The bark of several species of Desmodium yields a good fibre for ropes, and also 

 a material for the manufacture of paper. 



Altsicaepus, Keeker. 



Pod-joints more or less turgid. Calyx deeply divided and almost glumaceous. 

 Leaves often 1-foliolate. 



* Calyx shorter than the first pod-joint. 

 A. MoyiLiFEE, DC. Ava. Maulmain. 



Pod-joints inflated-globular, without wrinkles or veins. 



