Desmodium 



LEGUMINOSvE 



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Fl. Ind. Occ. 1263. Meibornia adscendens Kuntze Bev. Gen. PL i. 

 195 (1891). 



In fl. May ; Wright ! Broughton ! Catherine's Peak, Macfadyen ! Hope- 

 well, St. Mary, McNabl Wilsonl Claverty Cottage, J.P. 1446, Hart I Port 

 Antonio, Hitchcock. — West Indies, tropical continental America. 



Branches to about 1 ft. high, pubescent, or minutely puberulous, with 

 spreading hairs, or glabrate. Leaflets elliptical, broadly elliptical, or 

 obovate-elliptical, puberulous with adpressed hairs, but few on the upper 

 surface ; stipules persistent, lanceolate, acuminate. Racemes long, 1-2 dm. 1., 

 terminal, laxly flowered. Bracts ovate, acuminate, soon falling. Pedicels 

 usually 2 together, -5-1 cm. 1. Calyx puberulous, 2-5 mm. 1. Corolla 

 about twice as long as the calyx ; standard purple marked with 2 whitish 

 spots near the base. Uppermost stamen free. Pod straight, lower margin 

 wavy to the middle, puberulous with minute hooked hairs. 



2. D. supinum BG. Prodr. ii. 332 (1825); stem suberect or 

 lecumbent ; leaflets 3, oblong-elliptical, whitish beneath ; stipules 

 united halfway, at length free ; flowers in lax racemes ; upper 



Fig. 10. — Desmodium supinum DC. 



A, Portion of flowering branch X |. 



B, Flower x 5. 



C, Wing X 5. 



D, Stamens and pistil X 7. 



E, Pod X f. 



margin of pod continuous ; joints 5-7, semielliptical to semi- 

 circular, about 4 mn. 1. — JJrh. loc. cit. D. incanum DG. lac. cit. ; 

 Benth. torn. cit. 98 ; Griseb. loc. cit. Oaobrychis americana &c. 

 Pluk. Phyt. t. 308, /. 5 & Aim. 270. Hedysarum foliis ternatis 

 &c. L. Hart. Glijf. 365. H. triphyllum fruticosum supinum &c. 

 Shane Gat. 73 & Hist. i. 185, t. 118, /. 2. H. canescens L. Sp. 

 IV. n 



