38 FLORA OF JAMAICA Desmodium 



torn. cit. 174. Hedysarum gyrans Linn. f. SuppL 332 (1781). 

 Meibomia gyrans Kuntze torn. cit. 196 (1891). 



Naturalized ; Mt. James, 1000 ft. ; Plato Road, 3500 ft. ; Temple Hall, 

 St. Andrew, 600 ft. ; Harris ! Castleton Eoad, 600 ft., Thompson ! PI. Jam. 

 5811, 6644, 8078, 12,133. Native of East Indies, Malay isles, Philippines. 



Herbaceous or shrubby, 1-4 ft. high ; branches subterete. Leaflets 1-3, 

 oblong-lanceolate; ternainal leaflet, 5-7 cm. 1., sometimes longer; lateral 

 leaflets 1 to nearly 2 cm. 1. Bacemes and panicles axillary and terminal. 

 Flowers hidden at first by the large ovate deciduous bracts. Calyx 2 mm. 1. 

 Corolla about 6 mm. 1., yellow; standard veined with violet. Pod 2-5-4 

 cm. 1., curved, puberulous or glabrescent.] 



9. D. triflorum DC. Prodr. ii. 334 (1825); stem much 

 branched, prostrate or creeping, slender, more or less pubescent ; 

 leaflets 3, small, obovate or obcordate, 4-8 mm. 1. ; flowers in 

 clusters of 2-4, opposite a leaf ; upper margin of pod continuous ; 

 joints 3-6, somewhat square, net-veined, tardily dehiscent, 

 3-3-5 mm. \.—Benth. torn. cit. 95, t. 26,/. 1. ; Mac/. Jam. i. 272 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 292 ; Griseh. op. cit. 186 ; Urh. torn. cit. 289. Hedy- 

 sarum triflorum L. Sp. PL 749 (1753); Sw. Obs. 288, t. 6,/. 1. 

 Meibomia triflora Kuntze torn. cit. 197 (1891). Type in Herb. 

 Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



By roadsides, in pastures and in cane-piece intervals ; in fl. Nov. ; 

 Morant Bay, Broughton ! Macfadyen 1 Prior ; Hope grounds, Fawcett ! 

 also Harris I Golden Spring, Tlwmpson 1 Constant Spring, Port Antonio, 

 Lucea, Hitchcock ; in pastures. Tyre, near Troy, 2000 ft. ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 

 6798, 7473, 8052, 9084.— Florida, West Indies, tropical continental America, 

 tropical Africa, south-east Asia. 



Stipules persistent. Calyx pilose, 2-3 mm. 1., segments lanceolate, the 

 two upper united to the middle. Corolla red to purple ; standard long- 

 clawed, 4 mm. 1. Uppermost stamen free or united only at the base. Pod 

 1-1*5 cm. 1., lower margin indented. 



10. D. barbatum Bentli. in Miq. PI. Jungh. 224 (1852) ; stem 

 erect or procumbent with ascending branches, pubescent or 

 villose ; leaflets 3 ; flowers nodding, crowded in dense corymbose 

 terminal racemes, 2 under each large scarious bract, with hirsute 

 calyx ; pod reflexed, upper margin continuous ; joints 2-4, some- 

 what rhomboidal, transversely veined, tardily dehiscent, 3 mm. 1.— 

 Benth. loc. cit. 95, t. 26, /. II. ; Griseh. loc. cit. ; Urh. torn. cit. 290. 

 Hedysarum barbatum L. Syst. ed. 10, 1170 (1759), Amoen. v. 403 & 

 Sp. PI. ed. 2, 1055 ; Sw. Ohs. Bot. 287. H. villosum Miller Gard. 

 Diet. ed. 8 (1768). Nicolsonia barbata DC. Prodr. ii. 325 (1825) ; 

 Macf. Jam. i. 264. Meibomia barbata Kuntze torn. cit. 195 (1891). 



Clarendon Mts., Broughton\ Macfadyen; St. Ann, Purdiel Wilson [ 

 Westphalia, J.P. 1477, Campbell ! St. George, 2500 ft. ; Mt. Hybla, B500 ft. ; 

 Savanna, Upper Clarendon, 2500 ft. ; Harris I Spanish River, seven miles 

 from Buff Bay, Moore 1 — West Indies, tropical continental America. 



Plant low-growing to 2 ft. Leaflets, terminal oblong-elliptical, 

 1-3-3 cm. 1., lateral a little smaller; stipules persistent. Bacemes 

 1-5-3 cm. 1. Bracts hirsute. Calyx 4: m.m.. \. Corolla shorter than the 



