36. Desmodittm.] 43. PAFILIONACE&1. 



b. Stems ereot or sub-erect. 



Lflts. longer than broad. Eacemea 

 lax. Pods glabrescent ... 9. gangeticwn. 



Lflts. broadly ovate. Eacemes dense. 

 Pods very pubescent. . . .10. latifolium. 



II. Pods continuously dehiscent along the ventral 

 suture. 



Undershrubs. Lateral lflts. very small or 0, 



linear . . . . . .11. gyrans. 



Large shrub. Lateral lflts. Bmall, oblong or 



ovate 12. gyroide$. 



Spp. 1-3 are frequent in pastures, waste-land and on roadsides. 

 They flower chiefly in the cold and rainy seasons. 



4. D. pulchellum, Benih. Bir kapi, 8. 



A shrub 3-5 ft. high with grey-hairy branches, easily 

 -recognised by the inflorescence which far exceeds the leaves 

 and bears double rows of- pinnately-2-foliolate coriaceous 

 bracts (the rachis of which ends in a filiform point), which 

 bear in their axils fascicles of small yellow flowers. 



Valleys not uncommon. All the districts. Fls. r. s. Fr. Nov.-Dec 



Lflts. shortly grey-hairy beneath and on the nerves above, end one ell.- 

 or ovate-oblong 3-5'', often sinuate. Sec. n. 7-10 prs. with parallel cross 

 nervules. Side leaflets about half as large. Bracts orbicular strongly 

 nerved on a short raohis ending in a filiform point. Joints of pod 1"3, 

 usually 2. 



5. 0. CephaloteS, Wall.< Ramdataon Kharw. (Bit 

 jhawar, 8. is almost certainly an error). 



A shrub 3-6 ft. high with much the habit of the last. 

 Branches distinctly 3-cornered, shaggy. Bracts minute 

 deciduous. Fls, numerous yellow (red. F.B.I.) in dense 

 axillary short-peduncled umbels, often running out into leaf- 

 less racemes. 



Valleys, not uncommon in Sal forests in Singbhum ; Manbhum ; 

 Eanchi, Wood; and Palamau, Haslett. Fls. Aug.-Oct. Ft. Dec-'Jany. 



Lflts. silkily hairy on the nerves beneath, nearly glabrous above, end 

 one ell. acuminate 3-6''. Sec n. fine strong 13-20 prs. with indistinct 

 parallel cross nervules. Side leaflets half to f ths as long. Pod £-f ' very 

 silky, joints 2-5, usually 3. 



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