Desmodium LEGUMINOSiE 39 



calyx, rosy, blue or whitish ; standard long-clawed. Uppermost stamen 

 free or cohering only at the base. Pod -7-1 -3 cm. 1., lower margin 

 indented. 



[D. umbellatum BC. Prodr. ii. 325 (1825) ; shrub with terete 

 branches ; leaHets 3 ; flowers in dense shortly-stalked or sessile 

 axillary umbels ; pod with style persistent, upper margin slightly 

 notched; joints 5-1, elliptical, 7-10 mm. 1. — Bah. torn. cit. 161. 

 Hedysarum umbellatum L. Sp. PI. 747 (1753); Jacq. Sort. 

 Schoenhr. t. 297. Dendrolobium umbellatum Benth. in Miq. PI. 

 Jungh. 218 (1852); Griseb. op. cit. 188. Meibomia umbellata 

 Kuntze torn. cit. 197 (1891). Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. 

 Mus. Brit. 



March 1— Native of East Indies, Mascarene isles, Malaya, Philippines, 

 Polynesia. 



Shrub 5-6 ft. high, rather showy; branches, when young, densely 

 downy. Leaflets elliptical to roundish, 5-8 cm. 1. Calyx 4-5 mm. 1. 

 Corolla 1-1-2 cm. 1. Pod 4-5 cm. 1., lower margin indent6d to the middle, 

 silky or glabrescent. Naturalized according to Grisebach, but we have not 

 seen any specimen from Jamaica, except March's in Herb. Kew.] 



[D. Cephalotes Wall. Cat. n. 5721 (nomen) ; Wight & Am. 

 Prodr. 224 (1834) ; shrub with 3-angled viliose branches ; leaflets 3 ; 

 flowers in dense shortly stalked axillary umbels ; pod shortly 

 beaked, upper margin slightly notched ; joints 2-5, somewhat 

 square or elliptical, 4 mm. 1. — Wight Ic. t. 373-; Bah. torn. cit. 161. 

 Hedysarum Cephalotes Boxh. Fl. Ind. Hi. 360 (1832). Meibomia 

 Cephalotes Kuntze torn. cit. 195 (1891). 



Introduced; above Gordon Town, 1200 ft., Harris \ Fl. Jam. 7889.— 

 East Indies, Malaya, Siam, China. 



A straggling shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high. Leaflets narrowly elliptical to 

 lanceolate, subacuminate, 5-12 cm. 1. CaZi/a; 4-4 • 5 mm. 1. Corolla dee-p 

 red, 7-8 mm. 1. Pod •8-1-5 cm. 1., silky or glabrescent.] 



[D. triquetrum DC. Prodr. ii. 326 (1825); leaflet single; 

 petiole winged. — Bah. torn. cit. 163. Hedysarum triquetrum 

 L. Sp. PI. 746 (1753). Meibomia triquetra Kuntze torn. cit. 197 

 (1891). Type in Herb. Hermann in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



In fl. at end of year; naturalized; Mt. Airy, 3000 ft.; between Mt. 

 Airy and Brandon Hill, 1000 ft. (growing on trees) ; Harris ! Prospect Hill, 

 2000 ft. ; Thompson ! Fl. Jam. 6373, 7460, 7957.— Native of East Indies, 

 China, Philippines. 



Shrub 3-4 ft. high ; branches mor6 or less triquetrous. Leaflets lanceo- 

 late or ovate, -5-2 dm. 1. Racemes terminal and axillary, 1-5-3 dm. 1. 

 Flowers pink. Calyx 3 mm. 1. Corolla about 5 mm. 1. Pod thin, 

 indehiscent, splitting into joints, 2-5-3 cm. 1., 5-7 mm. br. ; joints 6-8, 

 nearly square.] 



[LOUREA Neck. 



Leaves 3-£oliolate (reduced usually to a single 2-lobed leaflet 

 in L. veapertilionis Desv.). Racemes terminal. Calyx 5-fid, at 



