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



24. B. tilisefolium, G. Don. Gen. Syst. ii. 297; leaflets obtuse or sub- 

 acute densely hoary beneath, pedicels moderately long, bracts lanceolate, corolla 

 large, joints many thinly clothed with adpressed silky hairs. Wall. Cat. 5707. 

 D. nutans, Wall. Cat. 5706 ;. 'Sot. Mag. t. 2867. D. argenteuni, Wall . Cat. 

 5713. Hedysarum tiliaefolium, Don Prodr. 244. , 



All along the HIMALAYAS from the UPPER PUNJAB to TAVOY, temperate and tro- 

 pical zones, ascending to 9000 ft. 



Branches slender, terete, finely downy. Petiole 2-3 in ; leaflets thick, flexible, 

 subcoriaceous, green, glabrescent above, more or less densely persistently matted with 

 whitish silky hairs beneath ; end one broad obovate, 2 4 in. long, entire or obscurely 

 repand, base deltoid or rather rounded. Racemes copious, lax, often a foot long, ax- 

 illary and terminal, the latter often copiously panicled, with lower branches again 

 compound ; pedicels J-f in., ascending, finely downy. Calyx \ in., downy ; teeth del- 

 toid, shorter than the tube. Corolla ^^ in. Pod 2-3 in. long, | in. broad ; joints 

 6-9, longer than broad. 



* Joints of pod as in the last yroup, but the calyx-teeth narrower and 

 longer. (HET^ROLOMA, Benth.} 



t Leaves \-foliolate. % 



\ 25. X2. fleizuosum, Wall. Cat. 5691 ; leaflet membranous orbicular gla- 

 brous on theyipper surface. Benth. PL Jungh. 224. 



BIRMA ; Prome hills, Wallich. 



Stems slender, woody, flexuose, trailing, clothed throughout with spreading or de- 

 flexed bristly hairs. Leaflet 2-3 in. long and broad, obtuse, or obscurely cuspidate, 

 rounded or slightly cordate at the base, thinly coated^ with adpressed grey hairs be- 

 low ; petiole 1-1^- in. Eacemes terminal and lateral, distinctly peduncled, 2-3 in. long, 

 moderately close ; pedicels in., slender, ascending ; bracts setaceous, minute. Calyx 

 ~ in., bristly, teeth lanceolate. Corolla in. Pod glabrescent, 5-6-jointed, only 

 seen immature. % ( . 



2(1. r\ ..:: .yoticum, DC. Prodr. ii. 327; leaflet membranous or sub- 

 coriaceous oblong entire acute glabrescent on the upper surface. Wall. Cat. 

 5689. ;&V. $ A. Prodr. 225; Wialit Ic. 271; Dak. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 66. 

 B. latiibliimi, Wight Ic. t. 272, non t. 270. Hedysarum gangeticuin, Linn. ; 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 349. II. collinum, Roxb. loc. cit. 



- j ' ^fiflwi 



HIMALAYAS (ascending to 5000 ft. on the Chenab) to PKGU and CEYLOX. DJSTRIB. 



Trop. Africa, Malay isles, Philippines, China ; introduced in West Indies. 



$tcms . subercct, reaching 3-4 ft. high, woody, slightly angular, clothed with short 



grty down upwards. Leaflet oblong, usually 3-6 in. long, not more than 4 as 



broad, rounded at the base, narrowed gradually to an acute point, thinly clothed be- 

 >.neath with adpressed grey hairs, not reticulato-venose ; petiole ^-1 in. Racemes 

 -copious, ascending, lateral and terminal, the latter sublax, 6-12 in. long, simple or 



with a few short ascending branches in the lower part ; pedicels pr 5- in., ascending ; 



bracts minute, setaceous. Calyx under ~ in., finely downy; teeth lanceolate. Corolla 



jV-i in. Pod falcate, |~f in. long, fn. broad, 6-8-jointed, glabrescent or clothed 



with minute hooked hairs. 



VAR. maculatum; dwarf, a foot or less high, leaflet roundish-cordate 1 in. or 



less lonjr. Dill. Hort. Elth. t. 141, fig. 168. D. maculatum, DC. Prodr. ii. 327 ; Wall. 



Cat. 5690. Hed}*sarum maculatum, Linn. Sp. PL 1051. Rohilcund, Upper Bengal, 



&c. 



27. B. latifolium, DC. Prodr. ii. 327;, leaflet ovate thick subcoriaceous 

 obscurely repand usually subobtuse persistently scabrous with, adpressed bristly 

 hairs on'the upper surface. Wall. Cat. 5692 ; W. fy A. Prodr. 225 ; Wiaht Ic. 

 t. 270 ; Dais. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 66. D. collinum, Wall. Cat. 5693. D. 



