344 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Desmodium. 



lanceolate, vip to 4 in. long 1 , the side ones very small and moving in 

 jerks ; flowers large ; stamens diadelphous 24. gyrans. 



1. DESMODIUM CEPHALOTES, Wall. ; F. B. I. ii. 161 ; W. & A. 

 244 ; Wt. Ic. t, 373. 



Var. congestion, Prain. D. congestum, Wall. ; W. & A. 224 ; 

 Wt. Ic. t. 209. 



Northern Circars, Hills of the Deccan and Carnatic, and 

 W. Ghats, up to 3,000 ft., in forest undergrowth, especially 

 with teak in the South, with Sal in the North. 

 A shrub, with white silky triquetrous branchlets, white 

 or yellowish flowers, and 4-6-jointed, nearly glabrous 

 curved pods. Yerii. Tel. Chetenda. 



2. DESMODIUM PULCHELLUM, Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 162. Dicerma 

 pidchellum, DC. ; W. & A. 230; Wt. Ic. t. 418. 



In most dry forest Districts, in forest undergrowth, up 

 to 4,000 ft, 



A shrub, easily recognized by its conspicuous floral leaves, 

 and large ovate-lanceolate repand leaflets ; flowers pale 

 yellow ; pod usually 2-jointed, long-apiculate. 



3. DESMODIUM BIARTICULATUM, Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 163. 

 Dicerma biarticulatum, W. & A. 230 ; Wt. lo. t. 419. 



E. Coast Districts from the Chilka Lake to Cape Comoriii 

 and on W. Coast as far North as Quilon, in sandy places 

 chiefly ; rare inland, Cuddapah and Salem. 

 A slender shrub with small coriaceous cinereous leaves, 

 bright red flowers and 2-jointed reticulate pod, the floral 

 leaves reduced to chaffy stipules. 



4. DESMODIUM LABURNIFOLIUM, DC.; F. B. I. ii. 163. 



E. Ghats, Hills of Yizagapatam at about 4,000 ft. (A. W. 



Lushington). 



A slender shrub with lanceolate leaflets, whitish flowers 



in long racemes and slender pods with oblong sticky joints 



very easily separable. 



5. DESMODIUM LAXIFLORUM, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 164. D. recurva- 

 tum, Grah.; W. & A. 226; Wt. Ic. t. 374. D. diffusum, 

 DC. Prodr. ii. 335, No. 88 ; Wt. Ic. t. 409. 



W. Ghats, in Mysore, Coimbatore, Nilgiris and Travancore, 



up to 3.000 ft. 



An erect undershrub up to 5 ft. high with angular stems, 



