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Stamens 9 and l. Ovary with one ovule only ; pod flat, 

 one-seeded, and opening in two membranous valves. 

 Species two or three only. 



Lcptodcsmia congesta Benth. ; F.B.I. ii 152, XLI i. 

 Leaves roundish, % inch. Heads of flowers ^4 — Vi inch. 

 4,000 to 7,000 feet. Fyson 1476, 4423. Bourne 2556. 



ALYSICARPUS. f.b.i. 50 xlvii. 



Herbs with slender stems, with one-foliate leaves, 

 conspicuous stipules, small flowers in terminal racemes ; 

 and cylindrical pod constricted between the seeds like a 

 row of beads, which separate into one-seeded, indehiscent 

 parts. 



Species about 20, weeds in the tropics. 



Alysicarpus raccmosus Benth. ; F,BJ. as var of A. 

 belgaumensis, II 60, XLVII 9. A small erect plant with 

 golden pubescence. Upper leaves sometimes three- 

 foliate, lower one-foliate. Leaflet under one inch. 

 Flowers purple, pedicelled in long racemes. Pod of three 

 or four joints, not much exserted from the calyx. 



Nilgiris, 3,000 to 7,000 feet. 



Gen. Dist. Northern Circars, Deccan, Western Ghats, Nilgiris, Ana- 

 malais, etc. ICF.M.P.] 



Alysicarpus parviflorus Dalz. ; G.F.M.P,, p. 39, as 

 Desmodium parviflorum, Baker in F.B.I. ii 172. t. 314. 



DESMODIUM. 



See Vol. I p. 114, and also appendix to this volume. 



Desmodium rufesccns DC; Vol.1 p. 115. Flowers 

 purple to deep blue. Pods curved reflexed, in dense 

 spikes below the still open flowers, t. 313. 



VICIA. 



Vicia sativa L. ; Vol. I page 1 17 and II t. 88, but 

 stipules not large, often deep, two-lobed Corolla red, 

 fading blue. 

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