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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Tcninsula. 



Pod distinctly divided into several separating one-seeded 

 joints : — 



Leaves 3-foliolate : — 



Small trailing herbs with 1-3 axillary flowers (1. 

 Sagotia) : — 



Pedicels hardly exceeding the petioles ; leaflets 

 obovate-cuneate, truncate or emarginate 

 Pedicels distinctly longer than petioles ; leaflets 

 oblong rounded at apex 

 Undershrubs or shrubs with woody branches : — 

 Bracts large, 2-foliolate, persistent (2. Phyllocliiim).. 

 Bracts small, simple, deciduous : — 



Flowers in dense short-peduncled axillary umbels 

 (3. Dendrolohium) : — 

 Leaflets smooth, veins beneath indistinct ; pods 

 glabrous 



Leaflets rugose, reticulate-veined beneath ; 

 pods strigose 

 Flowers in more or less elongated racemes: — 

 Lowest joint of pod distinctly stalked, constric- 

 tions between joints reaching from loicer almost 

 to upper suture (ia. Eudesmodium § Podocar- 

 piu]n} 

 Lowest joint of pod sessile : — 



Joints of pod not manifestly longer than 

 broad : — 



Joints of pod indehiscent, leaflets large 

 acuminate (4^. Eudesmodium § Dollinera).. 

 Joints of pod opening along lower suture, 

 leaflets small (4c, Eudesmodium § Nichol- 

 soniu) : — 



Leaflets obovate-cuneate silvery beneath ; 

 pedicels always ultimately reflexed ; 

 stems prostrate . . 



Leaflets obovate-cuneate or obovate- 



acute, not silvery beneath ; pedicels 



erect or ascending; stems erect 



Joints of pod 4 times as long as broad (4(Z. 



Eudesmodium § Scorpiurus) ... 



Leaves 1-foliolate : — 



Petioles not winged : — 



Joints of pod 4 times as long as broad (4d. 

 Eudesmodium § Scorpiw'us) 



Joints of pod not manifestly longer than broad 

 (4e Eudesmodium § Heteroloma) : — 

 Eacemes lax, pods glabrescent 

 Racemes dense, pods densely pubescent 

 Petioles broadly winged (5. Pteroloma) : — 

 Pods thin, densely strigose 



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1. D. triflorum. 



2. D. heterophylliun. 



3. D. pulchellum. 



4. D. umhellatum. 



5. -D. rugosum. 



6. D laxum. 



7. D. megaphyllum. 



8. D, capitatum. 



10. 



12. 

 13. 



D. polyC'irpum, 

 D. laxifiorum. 



11. D. ormocarpoides. 



D. gangeticum. 

 D. virgatum. 



14. D. triquetrum. 



