\i,\ni. Li;(.LMiN()S^. 353 



p. 423; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. SL— Flowers : Aug.-Oct. 

 ViORN. Lapoti. 

 D. Cephalotes (typical) is Subliimalayau, rare in India proper. 



KoNKAN : Law \, stocks'. ; Island of Caranja, X'rt/^c//^- frifisow; hills near Mallieran, 

 Kaiiith-arl; Matheran Q\vM, H. M. Birdwood. S. M. Country: Belgauui, /I'lVcA/e, 

 188.'; Castlerock, Cooke \ Kanaka: Ycllapur (N. Kanara), 7h/^o^.'— Distkib. 

 Througliout, tlie jilains of India; Ceylon. 



3. Desmodium pulchellum, Benth. c.r Bake); in JJool-.f. Fl. B. I. 

 V. 2 (1870) p. 102. iV shrub 4-5 ft. high ; branches slender, terete or 

 sometimes slightly angled, grey-downy. Leaves 3-foliolate, 3-7 in. 

 long ; petioles g-| in. long, chatnielled above, densely downy ; stipules 

 -^ in. long, ovate, long-acuminate. Leaflets coriaceous, ovate-elliptic, 

 obtuse or subacute, subglabrous and subrugose above, tiuely downy, 

 reticulately veined and pale beneath, repand or undulate on the margins, 

 base rounded or subcordate (the terminal 2-5 by 1-2| in., equilateral, 

 the lateral 1-3 by ^-Ig in. oblique) ; main nerves 8-lU pairs, oblique, 

 prominent beneath ; petiolules j-^-\ in. long ; stipels subulate. In- 

 florescence axillary or terminal; dowers in racemes 3-10 in. long, com- 

 posed of solitary, fascicled or umbellate flowers in the axils of 12-40 

 compound leafy bracts ; bracts 2-foliolate, tlieir leaflets orbicular, sti- 

 pellate, ^ in. across, glabrous on the upper, finely downy on the lower 

 side, placed back to back on a very short densely villous common petiole 

 which is stipulate at the base. Calyx y^ in. long, puberulous ; teeth 

 lanceolate, shorter than the tube. Corolla | in. long, yellow. Pods 

 g-j in. long, indented on both sutures ; joints usually 2 (rarely 1 or 3), 

 shghtly longer than broad, reticulately veined, pubescent. Trim. Fl. 

 Ceyl. V. 2, p. 48 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. p. 69 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 11 (1»97) p. 423 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 83. Dicerma 

 pulchellum, DC. Prodr. v. 2, p. 339 ; Wight, Icon. t. 418.— -Flowers : 

 Aug.-Oct. 



KoNKAN : Stocksl Kanaka: common in N. Kanara as undergrowth in the high 

 timber deciduous forests of the Yellapur Ghats, Talbot. — Distrib, Throughout India ; 

 Ceylon, Malaya. 



4. Desmodium laxiflorum, DC. Prodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 335. An 

 erect undershrub 2-5 ft. high ; stems slender, woody, obtusely angled, 

 clothed when young with short white subappressed hairs, at length 

 glabi'escent. Leaves 3-foliolate; petioles l-2g in. long, channelled 

 above, pubescent with appressed hau"s ; stipules § in. long, linear- 

 lanceolate, very acute, striate. Leaflets membranous, ovate-elliptic or 

 sometimes broadly lanceolate, acute or subobtuse, green and glabrous 

 above, appressedly hairy, reticulately veined and paler beneath, base 

 rounded or acute (the terminal 3-6 by l|-2-j in., the lateral l|-4 by 

 1-1 1 in.) ; main nerves 7-12 pairs, slender, prominent beneath ; petio- 

 lules Y^ in. long ; stipels | in. long, linear-subulate. Flowers in ter- 

 minal and axillary racemes 6-10 in. long, usually arranged in distant 

 few-flowered fascicles (rarely solitary) along a slender hairy rhachis ; 

 pedicels filiform, pubescent, ultimately ^-J in. long, finally spreading; 

 bracts and bracteoles linear-acute, hairy. Calyx jy— g in. long, campa- 

 nulate, strigose ; teeth lanceolate, slightly longer than the tube. Corolla 

 I in. long; standard white : wings and keel blue. Pods 1-1| in. long, 

 scarcely constricted between the seeds, clothed with minute hooked 



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