DesmodiumJ] L. LEGUMINOS.E. (J. G. Baker.) 171 



W. 8f A. Prodr. 227, ex parte. Hedysarmn capitatum, Burm. PL 2nd. 167, t. 



4-1 A . i* -I TT "*"* * T7 - - - A~\ f\ T~ 1 j 1 _ _ j j -r-r t 



Ear. 390. 



64," fig. 1. H. conicum, Poir. Encyc. vi. 419. Pseudarthria capitata, Hassk. 

 PL Jav. 



CEYLON, Burmann. PBOME hills, Wallich. DISTRIB. Malay isles, Philippines. 



Branches woody, terete, argenteo-canescent when young. Petiole ~-\ in. ; leaflets 

 subcoriaceous, green, glabrescent above, densely persistently coated with adpressed 

 white silky hairs below; end one 1-1| in. long, retuse. Racemes copious, axillary and 

 terminal, simple, dense, nearly sessile, 1-2 in. long ; pedicels -% in. ; bracts small, 

 ovate-cuspidate, ciliated. Calyx -^ in. glabrescent ; teeth deep, setaceous. Corolla 

 twice the calyx. Pod -| in. long, "glabrescent, 4-6-jointed, in. broad. 



35. D. Grriffithianum, Benth. PL Jungh. 222 ; herbaceous, trailing, 

 leaflets 3, pedicels deflexed at the tip, corolla small. 



IVHASIA, alt. 4-6000 ft.. Griffith, Hook. fil. $ Thomson. 



Stems 1-2 ft. long, moderate!^ robust, densely clothed upwards with fine spread- 

 ing hairs. Petiole -1 in. ; leaflets always 3, subcoriaceous, green, glabrous above, 

 clothed with short inconspicuous adpressed hairs beneath ; end one obovate-oblong, ob- 

 tuse, |-1 in. long. Racemes terminal, peduncled, 2-6 in. long, dense in the upper 

 part ; bracts ^-f in, ovate-cuspidate, densely silky ; pedicels - in., silky, erecto-pa- 

 teht. Calyx ^ in., densely silky ; teeth deep, setaceous. Corolla twice the calyx. Pod 

 -.V- j in. by ~ in., 4-5-jointed, obscurely downy. 



36. X>. brachystachyum, Grali. MSS. ; herbaceous, trailing, leaves 

 1-foliolate, pedicels reflexed at the tip. Benth. PL Jungh. 223. 



UPPEK GANGETIC PLAIN, Hamilton, Edgeworth, $c. 



.Stems caespitose, slender, a foot long, glabrous except at the top. Leaflets round- 

 er broad-oblong, cordate, f 1 in. long, obtuse or emarginate, subcoriaceous, glabrous 

 above, reticulato-venose and inconspicuous hairy below ; petiole ^ in. Racemes copi- 

 ous, close, under 1 in.' long, axillary and terminal, nearly sessile ; bracts lanceolate, 

 under ^ in. ; pedicel ^--^ in., abruptly cernuous at the tip, as in Uraria. Calyx ^ in., 

 clothed all over with dense white hairs; teeth long, lanceolate-cuspidate. Corolla 

 twice the calyx. Pod sessile, 2-jointed, glabrous, not longer than the calyx. 



37. D. rufescens, DC. Prodr. ii. 335? erect, shrubby, leaflets 3, pedicels 

 finally spreading or cernuous, corolla large. W.\ $ A. Prodr. 228 ; Wight Ic..t. 

 1)84 ; Illust. t. 79. D. ferrugineiun, Wall. Cat. 5732 ; Thwaites Enum. 87. 



NLLGHIRIS and CEYLON, up to 4000 ft. 



An erect undershrub, with young branches densely clothed with short ferruginous 

 silky hairs. Petiole 1-1^ in.; leaflets subcoriaceous, glabrous above, more or less 

 densely argenteo-canescent beneath ; end one obovate-oblong, 1-2 in. long, obtuse, 

 with a mucro. Racemes usually terminal, 3-6 in. long, dense in, the upper part; 

 bracts ovate-acuminate, ^-f in., densely silky ; pedicels | f in., densely silky. Calyx 

 -^ in. ; teeth lanceolate, exceeding the tube ; lowest linear. Corolla ^-^ in. Pod 

 short-stalked, 1-1 j in. by in., 6-8-joinfed, minutely downy. 



* 



1 Cat. 5729 <u- parte, non DC. J >. ovi'Jirblmm, Wall. Cat. 5730.' 1). siliquosum, 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 33C. D. lietorbeRrpum, DC. l\odr.\\. 337. D. retusum, G. 

 Don Gen, St/st. ii. 297. ]). gyrcade*;" Hassh. PL*' Jav. Ear. 3G2 ? non JDC. D. 



1054. II. piirpiireum, Roxb. Hart. Beiu/. 57; FL Incl iii. 358. H. retusum, 

 Dan Prod. 243. If. pa:ens, Eo.vb. FL Intl. iii. 362. 



