162 L. LEGUMINOS2B. (J. G. Baker.) [Desmodiurt. 



Prodr. 224 ; Wiyht Ic. t. 373 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 87 ; Anal. Gen. 1. 12, fig. 4. Den- 

 drolobium cephalotes, Benth. PI. Jung. 218. Hedysarum cephalotes and umbel- 

 latmn, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 360. D. congestuin, Wall. Cat. 5723 ; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 224 ; Wight Ic. t. 209 ; Dak. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 66. D. austr_ale, 

 Hassk. PL Jav. Ear. 356, nan DC. D. sericatum, Presl, Bot. Bern. 39. D. 

 lineatum, ^<m. wi Linn. xv. 193. 



EAST HIMALAYAS, tropical zone. NIPAL to CHITTAGONG, ascending to 4000 ft. ; 

 through India proper to CEYLON and SIAM. DISTRIB. China, Malay isles. 



A shrub, several ft. high, with densely grey-silky acutely-angled zigzag branches. 

 Petiole 1-2 in., thickened, deeply fun-owed down the face ; leaflets oblong or obovate- 

 oblong, subcoriaceous, green and glabrous above, grey-silky with conspicuous parallel 

 raised main veins below, the end one 3-6 in. long. Flowers 20 or more, in dense um- 

 bels ; pedicels unequal, silvery, jointed at the apex. Calyx ^ in. ; teeth lanceo- 

 late, as long as the tube. Corolla deep red, twice the calyx. Pod under an inch 

 long, glabrescent or silky ; joints 4-5, square, slightly indented, mainly at the lower 

 suture. 



r,x. 2. P&yllodium, Desv. Shrubs with woody branches, 3-foliolate 

 leaver, {'Lover.-; umbellate, the umbels in long continuous rows and each hidden 

 by o, pair of persistent bracts. 



: J>* pulcfeellum, Benth. MSS. ; leaves finely downy beneath, bracts 

 small, dose coriaceous plicate giabrous above, joints usually 2. Hedysa- 

 rum pulchellum, Linn. ; Ro.cb. FL Ind. iii. 361. Dicerma pulchellmn, DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 339 j Wall. Cat. 5737 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 230 ; Wight Ic. t. 418. 

 Zornia pulcliella, Pers. Syn. ii. 318. Phvllodiuni pulchellum, Desv. Journ. Bot. 

 iii. 123, t. 5, fig. 24; Benth. PL Jmigh.^17. 



EAST HIMALAYAS and through India proper to CEYLOX, BIJBMA, and PEGU. DISTRIB. 

 China, Philippines, Malay isles. 



A shrub, 3-6 ft. high, with -slender terete finely grey-downy branches. Petiole 

 in. ; leaflets rigidly coriaceous, green, glabrous above ; end one much the largest, 

 oblong, 3-6 in. long, obtuse or pubacute, rounded at the base, sometimes slightly repand. 

 Racemes ^1 ft. long, composed of 12-50 umbels; bracts the same texture as the 

 leaves, orbicular, rather obliqxve, f-^- in., long, with a short petiole ending in a long 

 bristle; umbels 2-6-flowered -pedicels ^-^ in., downy. Calyx T \ in. ; teeth lanceolate, 

 shorter than the tube. Corolla 3 times the calyx. Joints of poet rarely 1 or 3, glabrous 

 or downy, in. long, constricted at -both sutures. 



' 4. D. grande, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. SGC. Beng. xliii. 2, 184 ; leaves finely 

 downy beneath, bracts large coriaceous plicate glabrous above not close, joints 

 3-4. 



AVA, Kurz. Griffith No. 1690, the exact station not known, probably TEXASSERIM. 



Closely allied to the preceding, but considerably larger in most of its parts. 

 Branches slender, terete, finely grey -downy. Petiole 1-1 ^ in ; leaflets ovate, narrowed 

 gradually to an acute point, the end one 4-5 in. long. Racemes reaching a foot long, 

 with a downy zigzag rachis ; bracts like those of the last in texture, f-1 in. long, more 

 cordate at the base ; pedicels -\ in. long. Calyx in., finely downy ; upper teeth 

 deltoid ; lowest lanceolate. Joints of pod ^ in. long and broad, finely downy. 



5. D. vestitum, Benth. MSS. ; leaves densely downy beneath, bracts 

 large membranous not plicate pubescent on both sides. Dicerma vestitum, Wall. 

 Cat. 5739. Phyllodiuin vestitum, Benth. PI. Jungh. 217; Mia. FL Ind. Bat. i. 

 261. 



MARTABAN, Wallich. Tpy^ss^nr, near.Mergui, Griffith. 



BrancJies slender, clothed with'dens'e snort *pub'escence. Leaflets oblong, 3-4 in. 

 long, at first densely pubescent on both sides, glabrescent above, obtuse or subacute, 



