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sbrab with elongated woody rounded branches, hoary-tomontose towards 

 their tips, sometimes reaching 6 feet in length. Leaves 2-2-5 in. long, 

 3-foliolate, petiole '6 in. long slightly grooved and glabrescent above, 

 adpressed-tomentose beneath ; leaflets subcoriaceous, green glabrescent 

 above, densely white-silky pubescent beneath ; obovate-cuneate apex 

 rounded, terminal 1"25 in. long, 1 in. across, lateral similar but smaller 

 •75 in. long, '5 in. across, lateral nerves about 8 pairs slightly visible 

 beneath ; stipels subulate '1 in. long, stipules linear "25 in. long. Jn- 

 fiorescence of dense axillary and terminal subsessile racemes 1-2 in. 

 long ; pedicels •2-*25 in., abruptly reflexed in fruit ; bracts small ovate- 

 cuspidate ciliate, bracteoles minute. Calyx 1 in., glabrescent, teeth 

 setaceous longer than tube. Corolla purplish -red, 2 in. long. Pods 

 faintly puberulous, ■5-*75 in. long '15 in. wide ; joints 6-8, dehiscent 

 along lower indented suture. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 241 ; Bak. in 

 Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 170. D. ohovatum Wall. Cat. 5722 B. JD. polycarpum 

 W. & A. Prodr. 227, in part. Hedysarum capitatum Burm. Fl. Ind. 167, 

 t. 64, f. 1. K. conicum Poir. Encyc. Meth. VI, 419. Pseudarthria capitata 

 Hassk. PI. Jav. Ear. 390. 



Pekak ; Durian, S. Batang, Kunstler S6l \ Thaipeng, Scortechini! 

 Pahang ; Pal6.n Tawa, Ridley 2598a .' 



9. Desmodium polycarpum DC. Prodr. II, 334. An erect or sub- 

 erect undershrub or shrub 2-5 feet high with woody angular slender 

 branches shortly tomentose towards their tips. Leaves 2-4 in. long, 3- 

 foliolate, petiole '6-1 in. long, slightly grooved glabrous above, sparsely 

 adiDressed-pubescent beneath ; leaflets subcoriaceous, pale-green glabrous 

 above, thinly adpressed-hirsute beneath, usually obovate-cuneate apex 

 round, sometimes ovate-acute (D. ovalifolium Wall.), l"25-3 in. long 

 1-1*5 in. across, lateral similar but smaller, •75-1-25 in. long •5-^75 in. 

 across, lateral nerves about 6 pairs indistinct; stipels subulate '2 in. 

 long, stipules linear '3 in. long. Inflorescence of dense axillary and 

 terminal subsessile racemes 1-4 in. long ; pedicels '2 in. long as- 

 cending; bracts ovate-cuspidate ciliate ^25 in. long, bracteoles minute. 

 Cahjx •! in., glabrescent, teeth setaceous longer than tube. Corolla pink- 

 ish-purple, "2 in. long. Vods usually faintly or (D. ovalifolium) densely 

 ciliate, •5-^75 in. long. •IS in. wide; joints 6-8, dehiscent along lower 

 indented suture. W. & A. Prodr. 227 ; Wight Ic. t. 406 ; Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, -242; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 171. D. angulatum Wall. 

 Cat. 5727 in part, not of DC. D. siliquosinn DC. Prodr. II, 336. D. 

 heterocarpum DC. Prodr. II, 337. B. retusum G. Don, Gen. Syst. II, 

 297. D. gyroides Hassk. PL Jav. Bar. 362, not of DC. D. Buergeri 

 Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. Ill, 45. B. nervosum Vogel, PI. Meyen, 28. 

 B. patens Wight Ic. t. 407. Hedysarum polycarpum Lamk. 111. t. 628. 

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