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sum DC. Prodr. II, 335, non 336. Hedysarnm recurvatum Roxb. Horfc. 

 Beng. 57 ; Fl. Ind. Ill, 358 ; Wight, Ic. t. 409. M. diffusum Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. Til, 357, not of Willd. H. Boxbarghii Spreng. Sysfc. App. 292. 

 E. Bottleri Spreng. Syst. Ill, 320. 



Andamans ; Great Coco, Prain ! Nicobars ; Kondil, Kurz ! Distrib. 

 Throughout India, Irido-China and Malaja. 



11. Desmodium ormocarpoides DC. Prodr. II, 327. An erect 

 Tindershrub 2-5 feet high with woody slender obtusely angled sterns, at 

 first densely clothed with short hairs at length glabrescent. Leaves 5-7 

 in. long, 1-foliolate, petiole '75 in. long, pubescent with spreading hairs, 

 channelled above ; leaflet subcoriaceous, green and glabrous above, 

 sparsely pubescent to closely silky beneath, ovate-acute, base rounded or 

 truncate, 4-6 in. long J •5-2-25 in. wide, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs visible 

 beneath; stipels subulate, '2 in. long; stipules ovate long-acuminate 

 scarious, "3 in. long, subpersistent. Inflorescence in terminal or rarely 

 axillary racemes 6-10 in. long, of 12-20 distant solitary flowers or 

 few-fld. fascicles ; bracts and bl-acteoles minute linear or setaceous ; 

 rachis pubemlous with rusty tomentum as ure the u^^imately patent 

 pedicels •25-'35 in. long. Calyx 'I in. pubescent, tube campanulate, 

 teeth short deltoid. Corolla white, '2 in. long. Pod 3-4 in. long, pendu- 

 lous, "15 in. wide; joints 6-8, "6 in. long, indehiscent, constricted at both 

 sutures, longitudinally ribbed, closely beset with short hooked hairs. 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 249 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 164. Eedysarum 

 adhaerens Poir. in Lamk. Encyc. Meth. V, 15 not of Vahl. E. ormocar- 

 poides Desv. ex DC. Prodr. II, 327. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. YI, t. 66. 



Var. vehitina ; leaves softly silky beneath. D. zonatum Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 250. 



Andamans ; common in the interior of the Islands. Selangor ; 



Itidley 7295 ! Pahang ; Kwala Tembeling, Ridley 2605 ! Distrib. Java. 



The typical form of this species has leaves very sparsely hairy beneath ; it 



occurs in Java {fide De CandoUe), and is common in India from Ceylon and the 



Pulney Mts. northvpards to Assam. 



§ Heteroloma Bth. Joints of pod indehiscent, hardly longer than 

 broad ; upper suture straight or slightly indented ; calyx-teeth exceed- 

 ing tube. 



12. Desmodium gangeticdm DC. Prodr. II, 327. A slender 

 undershrub 1-4 feet high with woody obtusely angled glabrescent stems 

 and angled adpressed-puberulous branches. Leaves 4-6 in. long, 1- 

 foliolate, petiole '75 in. long channelled and with a few adpressed hairs 

 above ; membranous or rarely subcoriaceous, green and glabrous above, 

 a little paler adpressed-puberulous beneath ; ovate-acute, base lounded 

 or truncate, 3-5*5 in. long 1-2 in. wide, lateral nerves 8-9 pairs sliglitly 



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