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Zornia pulchella Pers. Synops. II, 318. Dicerma pulcJiellum DC. Prodr. 

 11,339; Wall. Cat. 5737; Wight, let. 418. Phyllodium pidchellum 

 Desv. Journ. Bot. Ill, 123, t. 5, f. 24; Benth. PI. Jungh. 217; Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 260. 



Malacca ; Griflth. Pahang ; Ridley 2596 ! Johore ; Kunstler 376 ! 

 Perak ; Scortechvni ! 



SuBGEN. 3. Dendrolobidm W. & A. Shrubs with woody branches 

 and 3-foliolate leaves. Flowers in dense short-pedancled or sessile 

 axillary umbels, bracts minute deciduous. 



4. Desmodium umbellatum DC. Prodr. II, 325. A littoral shrub 

 5-15 feet high with densely downy terete young branches. Leaves 5-7 

 in. long, 3-foliolate, petiole 1 in. long, channelled above, rusty-puberu- 

 lous ; leaflets subcoriaceous, green glabrous above, paler and thinly 

 canescent underneath, ovate-oblong obtuse or rarely acute or subacute, 

 terminal 3-3"5 in. long, 2-2*5 in. wide on a petiolule '5 in. long, the 

 lateral pair similar but smaller 2-2*5 in. long, l-25-l"75 in. wide on 

 petiolules '2 in. long ; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs hardly raised beneath ; 

 stipels very small, subulate, half as long as petiolules ; stipules large '3 

 in. long, subscarious, closely parallel-veined, caducous with the unfolding 

 of leaf next above which they cover in bud. Inflorescence axillary, with 

 peduncles '35 in. long, in 6-12-fld. corymbs simulating umbels; pedicels 

 short '15 in. or less, elongating in fruit to '25 in., unequal, very close-§et. 

 Calyx with a broad scarious deciduous bracteole, '1 in. long '07 in. wide, 

 at its base, densely silky externally, •J5 in. long, teeth lanceolate, as 

 long as tube. Corolla '5 in. long, white. Pod 1*5-2 in. long, joints 4, 

 very rarely 5, *3 in. long, '25 in. wide, sparsely silky when young, 

 glabrous when ripe, thick and coriaceous almost turgid. W. & A. 

 Prodr. 224 ; Wall. Cat. 5687 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 161. Bendro- 

 lohium wuhellatum Benth. PL Jungh. 218 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 262. 

 Hedysarum umbellatum Linn. Sp. PI. 747. H. arboreum Roxb. Flor. Ind. 

 Ill,' 360. 



In all the provinces, common on the coasts. Distrib. On all coasts 

 from the Mascarene Islands to Polynesia. 



A curious variety of this species, with branches, leaves beneath, and ripe pods 

 softly silky, is var. hirsutum DC. It is known only from specimens cultivated in 

 Hort. Calcutta {Wall. Cat. n. 5687/D) and in Hort. Bogor. — the Buitenzorf? specimens 

 being marked " U horto Calcuttensi recepta." The original habitat of this variety 

 is unknown. 



D. umhellatum has been said to occur in Upper Burma ; this is a mistake caused 

 by Dr. Wallich having issued (as 5687/j8) a totally different species under the same 

 name. No one has ever sent specimens of D. umhellatum to Calcutta except from 

 sea-coasts and the shores of tidal rivers. 



5. Desmodium rugosum Prain. A large gregarious shrub with 



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