166 L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) [Desmodium. 



non DC. D. caffrum, EcU. $ Zey. Herb. Cap. No. 1662. D. Schimperi, Hochst. : 

 A. Rich. FL Abyss, i. 205. D. abyssinicmn and repandum, DC. Prodr. ii. 33 

 and 334 ? 



Hills of the WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay and Masparen- 

 isles, Abyssinia, Natal. 



Stems 3-4 feet high, erect, woody in the lower part, densely downy. Stipules 

 \-^ in., lanceolate, persistent ; petiole 2-3 in. ; leaflets 3,, membranous, finely downy 

 on both surfaces, often slightly repand ; end one 2-4 in. long, roundish- or obovate-rhom- 

 boidal, base and apex subdeltoid. Racemes very lax, mostly terminal, often a foot 

 long, simple or forked at the base ; bracts boat-shaped, enclosing the buds, soon falling ; 

 pedicels capillary, permanently ascending, lower 1-1^ in. long. Calyx | in., downy; 

 lower tooth lanceolate, as long as the tube ; upper deltoid. Corolla f | in., bright red. 

 Joints 1-3, half-rhoiuboidal, in. long by half as broad ; apex oblique ; upper 

 suture rather recurved. 



2>. obcordatum, Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 229; co- 

 n ear-subulate caducous, stalk of pod not longer than 

 L'raria obcordata, Miq'Flor. Ind. Bat. Sujppl. 114, 305. 



TKXAShp-KiM, Kurz. 



A twitting perennial, 3-4 ft. high, with puberolous stems. Stipules lanceolate, 

 in. ; petiole ^~1 in. ; leaflets chartaceous, pale, thinly downy and prominently 

 veined benath, end one obcordate-lunate, ^-2 in. broad, emarginate with a mucro, 

 lateral ones smaller, deltoid. Racemes slender, pubesqent, axillary and forming a 

 terminal panicle; bracts very caducolis. Calyx ~ in., pubescent; teeth lanceolate, 

 acuminate. Corolla purple, under \ in. Joints of pod 1-3, round-hastate, -g- in. 

 long and broad, flat, puberulous. 



*** Joints of pod indehiscent, once or twice as loin/ as broad; upper suture 

 straight or slightly indented \ calyx-teeth deltoid) never exceeding the tube (DoL- 

 LINERA, Endl) All shrubby. 



t Leaves \-foliolate. 



18. p. oblong-urn, Wall. Cat. 5714; leaflets 3-4 times as 1 lonpr as "broad 

 thinly silky beneath. Benth. PL Jungh. 224. 



AVA. ; Taong-dong mountains, Wallich. 



Stems slender, woody, finely downy. Leaflet oblong, 3-5 in. long, obtuse, rounded at 

 the base, subcoriaceous, green, glabrous above; petiole | | in. Racemes very lax, 

 axillary and terminal, copiously panicled, 4-6 in. long, most of the flowers in distant 

 pairs ; pedicels -|- in. ; bracts \ in., ovate-cuspidate. Calyx ~ in., lowest tooth 

 lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla f in. Pod |-1 in. long, in.- broad, 6-7- 

 jointed, thinly closely silky, the upper suture slightly indented. 



19. D. oblatum, Baker; Kurz in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 2, 230 ^ 

 leaflet broader than long glabrous beneath. 



BIRMA ; forests of Pegu, Ava and Martaban, Kurz. 



Stems slender, woody, glabrous. Leaflet membranous, |-1 in. long, 1-J in. broad, 

 green above, grey-green beneath ; petiole | in. Racemes very lax, axillary and ter- 

 minal, the end one panicled ; pedicels erecto-patent, - f in. Calyx ~ in., thinly 

 silky ; teeth as long as the tube, lowest l^pceolate, the others deltoid. Corolla 3-4 

 times the calyx. Pod ^^ in. long, in. broad, 3 4-jointed, subglabrous, distinctly 

 stalked ; upper suture slightly indented. Very near D. reniforme, DC., from which it 

 differs by its longer pedicels and more deeply indented pod. 



ft Leaves 3-foliolate. 



20. 2>. glnuatum, Blume MSS. ; leaflets repand, pedicels short, corolla 

 small, bracts setaceous, joints many small clothed with minute hooked hairs. D. 

 strangulatum var. sinuatmn, Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. i. 255. 



