Desinodium.~] L. LEGUMINOS2E. (J. G. Baker.) 173 



Stems csespitose, diffuse, 1-1^ ft., densely clothed throughout with spreading brown 

 nilky hairs. Leaves subcoriaceous, pale green, nearly glabrous beneath ; end leaflet 

 obovate-oblong, obtuse, f-^- in. long ; side ones smaller ; petiole \ in. Eacemes ter- 

 minal, 2-3 in. long, the lower flowers in distant pairs, upper solitary ; pedicels -f in. ; 

 bracts lanceolate, \ in. Calyx in., shaggy with silky hairs, like those of the stem ; 

 teeth linear-setaceous, very long. Pod sessile, silky, under ^ by ^ in.^ 4-5-jointed. 



STJBGEIS". 7. Sag'otia, Walp. Trailing herbs, with, small 3-foliolate sti- 

 pellate leaves, flowers in sparse lax racemes or 1-2 in the axils of the leaves, 

 deciduous bracts and distinctly jointed pods. 



* Flmvers all 1-3 together without a common peduncle in the axils of the 

 leaves. 



43. B. triflorum, DC. Prodr. ii. 334; Wall. Cat. 5734 excl. F, exports ; 

 Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras, xv. 95, t, 26 ; Dak. fy Gibs. JBomb. Fl. 67. D. tri- 

 florum /3. minus, W. $ A. Prodr. 229 ; Wight Ic. t. 292. D. heterophyllum, 

 Wall. Cat. 5701 0. Hedysarum triflorum, Linn. ; Roxb. Hort. Bern/. 57 ; Fl. 

 2nd. iii. 353. II. stipnlaceum, Burin. Fl. Ind. t. 54 , iig 1 . 2. Nicolsonia reptans, 

 Meissn. in Linn. xxi. 260. Sagotia triflora, Walp. fy Duch. in Linn, xxiii. 

 738. 



Everywhere in the plains throughout India, ascending to 4000 ft. in KUMAON and 

 6-7000 ft. in KASHMIR and on the Chenab. DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan in tropics. 



Stems caespitose, very slender, trailing i-li ft., copiously branched, clothed with 

 fine spreading hairs. Stipules lanceolate, persistent; petiole - in. ; leaflets obovate, 

 - in., truncate or emarginate, with a few adpressed hairs below. Pedicels -f in. 

 Calyx pubescent, ~-| in. ;~ teeth very long, setaceous. Pod |~^ in. long, | in. br., 

 3-5-jointed, pubescent ; upper suture straight, lower slightly indented. ^*^f 



** Floicers some racemed, the others pedicelled in the axils of the leaves. 



44. X&. reniforme, DC. Prodr. ii. 327; leaves 1-foiiolate, leaflet broader 

 than loner, calyx-teeth and pedicels short. Wall. Cat. 5702 ; W. # A. Prodr. 

 230; Dalz. ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 67. Hedysarum renifonne, Linn. Sp. 1051; 

 Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 52, fig. 1. 



EAST HiiiALAYAS, Lobb PROME, AVA on the Banks of the Irrawaddi, Wallwh ; 

 WESTERN PENINSULA, Wight. DISTRIB. Java. 



Stem 1 ft. or more long, very slender, glabrous. Leaflet rigidly subcoriaceous, 

 half as broad again as long., -f in. long, truncate or emarginate, glabrous ; stipules 

 linear, minute, deciduous; petiole^ in., jointed at the apex. Eacemes mostly ter- 

 minal, laxly 10-20-flowered and a few flowers, solitary in the axils of the leaves; 

 bracts linear, minute ; pedicels ^ in., finally cernuous. Calyx under ^ in., turbinate, 

 glabrous. Pod glabrous, - f in. by ^ in. ; joints 3-5, longer than broad! ; upper suture 

 straight, lower little indented. 



45. B. heterophyllum, DC. Prodr. ii. 334; leaves 3-foliolate, calyx- 

 teeth and pedicels elongated. Wall. Cat. 5701, A, B, D. D'. trifloruin" a. 

 majus, W. $ A. Prodr. 229 ; Wight Ic. t. 291. D. triflorum, Wall. Cat. 5734, 

 F, ex parte. D. crespitosura, DC. Prodr. ii. 333. Hedysarum heterophyllum, 

 Willd. Sp. PL iii. 0201. II. reptans, Roxb. Hort. Bern/. 57 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 354. 

 Dicernia repens, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5740. 



EAST HIMALAYAS, tropical zone; KnAsiA and ASSAM and along the gulf to PEXAXG 

 and MALACCA. Plains of PEXINSTJLA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. 'Malay isles, China, Phi- 

 lippines, Mascarene isles. 



Stems 1-2 ft. long, copiously branched, clothed with dense spreading hairs. Sti- 

 pules ^ in., lanceolate-acuminate, persistent- petiole -g-.] in., pubescent; leaflets 



