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LEGUMINOSE/E-PAPILIONACE/E. 



Desmodium rotundifolium Baker] F.B.I, ii 1/2, L 40. 



A small plant with very slender stems and younger 



branches covered with sticky hairs. Leaves of one or of 



three leaflets intermixed, the lateral leaflets much smaller 



than the middle one, which varies from ^ to I inch, 



and is nearly round ; stipules, petioles and margin 



of leaf with long brown hairs. Racemes, slender 



terminal: pedicels often in pairs, very slender J^ to i 



inch, erect. Sepals strongly veined and shaggy with 



brown hairs. Corolla pink. Pod distinctly constricted 



between the seeds. 



Nilgiris : on the downs on moist hill side. Fir. September. 

 Fyson 6568 (figured) also on Western Ghats at 3,500 feet. 



Gen, Dist. Plains of Concan (F.B.I.). 



LEGUMlNOSEy^-C/ESALPINE/E. 



Acrocarpus fraxinifolius Wight; F.B.I, u (1/2 inch 

 space) a lac leaves doubly pinnate of about 5 pinnate 12 

 inches long each of about 8 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets 

 2^ to 3J4 inches by 1/4 to 2 inches, obovate, cuspidate, 

 entire, glabrous. Flowers in stiff spikes 5 to 10 inches 

 long. Calyx % inch, shallow-cup shaped. Corolla J^ 

 inch, cream-coloured stamens 10, filaments red very 

 conspicuous fruit. 



Nilgiris : Coonoor possibly only planted, at bridge at foot 

 of Tiger Hill Road, Sims Park, etc. Fir. March-April. 



Gen. Dist. Lower levels on these hills. 



Osbeckia Sp. (p. 49)- 



Mr, Ranga Achariyar, the Government Lecturing and Systematic Botanist, 

 who is in charge of the Madras Herbarium at Coimbatore, tells me that 

 this plant has hitherto been regarded as a variety of O. octandra, and was 

 apparently so considered by Gamble in the F.M.P. pt. 3, for no reference 

 is made to it ; but that he himself thinks it is probably a good species. 

 The petals and calyx-lobes, as may be seen in the figure, vary from 4 to 5, 

 on the same plant. The colour is quite distinctly a pure pink, whereas O. 

 octandra is described in G. F.M.P. as having purple floTfers. 



