Desmodium.'] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 165 



NORTH- WEST PROVINCES, Hoyle\ BUNDELCUND, Edgeworth. DISTRIB. Trop. 

 America, Africa, Polynesia. 



A csespitose erect annual, ^-2 feet high, with very slender glabrous stems. Leaves 

 distinctly petioled, 3-foliolate,~green, membranous, subglabrous ; end one ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, -l in. long. Racemes copious, axillary and terminal, the latter much pa- 

 nicled ; bracts minute, setaceous ; pedicels filiform, patent, glabrous, f~| in. Calyx 

 in. ; teeth as long as the tube. Pod f- in. long, ^-^ broad, 4-6-jointed, glabrous. 



: * Joints of pod indehiscent, longer than broad, the loivest one distinctly 

 stalked, the constrictions reaching from the lower nearly to the upper suture. 

 (PoDOCARPiUM, Benth.) 



13. D. podocarpum, DC. Prodr. ii. 336 ; corolla small, bracts linear 

 ^minute, stalk of pod 3^4 times as long as the calyx, ..pedicels short, pints 

 truncate at the apex. Wall. Cat. 5711, non Hook. 8f Am. Bot. Beech 't. 98^ 

 D. japonicuni, Miq. Ann. Mm. Lucjd. Bat. iii. 46. 



Temperate and tropical HIMALAYAS, alt. 2-7000 ft. ; from SIMLA and GuifWj-i&L- to 

 KHASIA and SIKKIM, DISTRIB. China, Japan. 



Stems 2-3 ft., herbaceous, angular, erect, finely pubescent. Stipules small, seta- 

 ceous ; petiole 1 membranous, both surfaces subglabre,cent, the lower 

 one pale ; end oneroundisl, 2-3 in. long, with a deltoid base. Racem es few, 

 very lax, axillary and terminal; flfe* latter reaching a foot long, copiously pauicled ; 

 bracts minute, linear ; pediceli under i in. Calyx turbinate, ~ in., slightly bristly ; 

 teeth deltoid, very short. Corolla in. Joints 1-2, % in. long by half as broad, 

 half-rhomboicUd, pxibescent, the upper suture flattened. 



VAR. laxum; leaflets larger, the end one 2-3 times as long as broad narrowed 

 gradually to a point. D. laxum, DC. loc. cit. Hedysarum laxum, Spreng. Syst. App. 

 292. D. t, W<(ll. Cat. 5720. Kumapn, Nipal and Sikkim. 



1 -L -D. Ca-ardnesi* Benth. PI. Jungh. 226; corolla small, bracts setaceous 



ininutf, stalk ;;' pod 8-ii? times the calyx, pedicels moderately long, joints ob- 

 lique or truncate at tin' apex. 1>. bambusetormn, Miq. Flor. 2nd. Bat. i. 256? 

 I), podocarpum, Miy. Ann. Max. Lit yd. Bat. iii. 46, non DC. 



WEST PEXINSULU, Shevagerry hills, Dr. Wight. CEYLON, Gardner. DISTRIB. 

 Japan. 



Ci r tvf the last, of which it is perhaps a mere southern variety. Stipules 



,- in. ; petiole 2-3 in. ; leaflets 3, membranous, subglabrescent, the end one 



narrow-ovate, 4-6 in. long, narrowed gradually to a point. Pedicels \^ in. -'bracts, 



calyx and corolla of D. podocarpum. Joints 2-3, -i | in. long, in. broad, cut away 



in an oblique Hue from opposite the point to the base ; stalk of pod | | in. long. 



15. D. delator iforme, Benth. PL Jungh. 226 ; corolla small, bracts mi- 

 nute setaceous, stalk of pod 2-3 times as long as the calyx, pedicels short, joints . 

 oblique' at the apex. 



WESTERN PENINSULA, CARNATIC, near Courtallum, Wight Tinnevelley, Beddome. 



Leaves crowded on an erect stem a few inches high. Stipules small, lanceolate, 

 persistent ; petiole 1-1^ in. ; leaflets 3, membranous, both surfaces green, lower ob- 

 scurely pilose, end one ovate, narrowed gradually to an obtuse point, twice as long as 

 broad, 1^-2 in. long, base deltoid. Racemes simple, lax, long-peduncled, terminal, 2-3 

 in. long f pedicels - in., finally patent. Calyx ^ in., turbinate ; lower tooth lanceo- 

 late, as long as the tube, upper deltoid. Joint solitary, half-rhomboidal, | in. long, 

 three times as long as broad, narrowed gradually from above the middle to the tip and 

 stalk. 



16. D. Scalpe, DC. Prodr. ii. 334 ; corolla large* bracts large ovate, pe- 

 dicels very long, stalk of pod twice as long as the calyx. D. strangulatum, W. 

 $ A. Prodr. 228 ; Wight Ic. t. 985. D. trichocaulon, Hassk. PI. Jav. Ear. 367, 



