.vhviii. LWiUMiNos.i:. 355 



broad us long, clothed with hooked liair.s, faintly reticulateiy veined, 

 n. B. I. V. 2, p. 109 ; Wight, Icon. t. 298 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 1 1 (1897) p. 423 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, p. 82. JJnly- 

 sanmi diffumim, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 3, p. 1180. — Flowers: 8ept. Veen. 

 Chikta. 



Bombay Presidency, without locality, Dalzcll ! Konkan : Stocks ! ; Bombay, Capt. 

 Gehurne I Ueccan : Poona, Woodrotv ; Nasik, Nairne. — Distrib. Throughout the 

 greater part of India. 



7. Desmodium triflorum, DO. Prodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 334. A 

 small perennial trailing herb ; steins slender, 6-18 in. long ; branches 

 numerous, prostrate, rooting at the nodes, sparsely hirsute with white 

 spreading hairs. Leaves 3-foliolate (the lower sometimes 1-foliolate) ; 

 petioles 4— i in. long ; stipules ovate, acuminate, g-^ in. long, persistent. 

 Leaflets membranous, obovate, cuneate, i-\ by ^-i in. (the terminal 

 slightly larger than the lateral), truncate or emarginate, rarely rounded, 

 glabrous above, more or less hairy beneath ; petiolules YS~y2 in. long. 

 Flowers 1-5 (usually 3), fascicled in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels 

 ^ in. long, hairy ; bracts ovate, acute, ciliate ; bracteoles minute. 

 Calyx g-^ in. long, clothed with long white hairs ; teeth lanceolate, 

 longer than the campanulate tube, ciliate with long white hairs. 

 Corolla j; in. long, pink or occasionally white ; standard yu ^^^' b^'oad, 

 broadly obovate, cuneate, produced into a long slender claw. Pods 

 g-| by g— g- in., the upper edge straight, the lower indented ; joints 3-5, 

 as broad as long, reticulateiy veined, more or less puberulous, the upper 

 edge straight, the lower rounded. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 173 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 49 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 67; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 54; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1897) p. 423 ; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 3, 

 p. 84. — Flowers : Oct. Vern. Bdn-metM. 



A very common plant throughout the Presidency. Konkan : Stocks ! Deccan : 

 widely, Woodrow; Mahableshwar, Cookel; Koin a valley, Cooke \ S. M. Country : 

 Belgaum, Eitchie, 187!; Castlerock, Cooke \ — Distrib. Common throughout India; 

 cosmopolitan in the Tropics. 



8. Desmodium triquetrum, DC. Prodr. v. 2 (1825) p. 326. An 

 erect shrub ; branches triquetrous, grooved, glabrescent. Leaves 

 1-foliolate ; petioles |-1-^ in. long, hairy, furnished on each side with a 

 leaf-like reticidately veined glabrous wing of variable breadth ; stipules 

 scarious, k-^ in. long, linear-lanceolate, acute, closely parallel-striate, 

 persistent. Leaflets 4-6 by 1-2 in., ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, glabrous above, slightly hairy on the nerves and reticulateiy 

 veined beneath, base rounded or subcordate ; main nerves 12-20 pairs ; 

 petiolules very short ; stipels adnate to the top of the petiolar wing, 

 curved, acute, nerved. Flowers in axillary and terminal racemes 6-9 in. 

 long, in fascicles of 1-3 in the axils of subulate bracts ^-f in. long ; 

 pedicels filiform, short ; bracteoles linear-subulate, ciliate. Calyx g in. 

 long, hairy ; teeth uneciual, the upper deltoid, the lower linear, acute. 

 Corolla g in. long, violet. Pods 1-2 by \ in., linear-oblong, with a long 

 apiculation, flat, continuous, scarcely indented, densely and persistently 

 strigose with appressed grey hairs ; joints 4-8, rather broader than 

 long. Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 163 (exclud. syn. D. uuriculatum, D. pseudo- 

 triquetrum, and D. alaturn, DC.) : Grab. Cat. p. 49 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 66 ; 

 Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 49 ; King, in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. v. 66 



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