Alysicarptis.] 



XLVII. LEGUMINOS^, 



605 



Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). Distrib. Indo-Malaya. Native name : 

 Akar Siliguri. Use : A decoction of the roots for colic. 



The two species are usually made varieties of one (Prain, I.e.), but are so 

 different in general appearance when typical that I think it advisable to 

 follow Linne and others in keeping them separate. A . nummnlarifolins is 

 prostrate, the branches often a foot long with purple flowers, A. vaginalis 

 erect with nearly white flowers. 



39. DESMODIUM, Desv. 



— Herbs or shrubs. Leaves i- or 3-foliate, stipellate. Flowers 

 small, white, pink, blue or yellow in racemes. Calyx campanulate, 

 upper two often sub-connate. Corolla exsert; standard broad; 

 wings adherent to keel ; upper stamen free from the other united 9. 

 Ovary sessile or stalked ; style incurved. Stigma minute capitate. 

 Pod of several i-seeded joints compressed, the joints separating. 

 Species 150, cosmopolitan. 



i. Sagotia : — Prostrate herbs with i to 3 axillary flowers ; leaves trifoliate. 

 Pedicels hardly exceeding petioles; leaflets 



obovate truncate •25 in. long 

 Pedicels '^ in. long; leaflets oblong or obovate, 



round -5 in. long 

 Pedicels -5 in. long; leaflets obovate, round, 



1-25 in. long, -75 in. wide '. 



(1) D. triflorum 



(2) D. heterophyllum 



(3) D. trifoliastrum 



-Shrubs. Bracts large 2-foliate, persistent; flowers in 



ii. Phyllodium 

 umbels. 



Plant downy ; leaves glabrous above 

 Plant velvety downy all over 

 iii. Dendrolobium : — Shrubs, bracts small 

 umbelled axillary. 



Leaflets smooth ; pods glabrous 

 Leaflets rugose ; pods strigose 

 iv. EuDESMODiUM : — Erect herbs or shrublets ; 

 flowers in racemes ; bracts deciduous. 

 Big shrubs ; racemes elongate. 



Racemes often panicled ; corolla violet 

 Racemes simple; flower white; pod joints 

 narrowed both ends . 

 Slender wiry shrublets. 



Racemes lax ; flowers pink ; leaflets ovate 



acuminate, 4 to 6 in. long . 

 Racemes lax; flowers scarlet; leaflets ovate 



blunt, 2 in. long 

 Racemes dense. 



Leaflets silky beneath, white, obovate 



cuneate ..... 



Leaflets not silky beneath, obovate cuneate ; 



flowers deep purple, rarely white . 



Leaflets elliptic or round, base round, 



white, silky beneath ; flowers pale 



lavender ..... 



Leaves i -foliate; racemes terminal lax. 



Petioles not winged. 



Joints of pod narrowed at the ends, 

 sticky ; flowers white . 



(4) D. pulchellum 



(5) D. vestitum 

 deciduous ; flowers small 



(6) D. 



(7) D. 



leaves ] 



umbellatum 

 rugosum 



- to 3-foliate ; 



(8) D. megaphyllum 



(9) D. laburnifolium 



(10) D. laxum 



(11) D. scalpe 



(12) D. capitatum 

 ;i3) D. polycarpum 



(14) D. ovalifolium 



[15) D. ormocarpoides 



