Desmodium.] LEGUMINOSAE. 345 



rather large leaves and flowers in fascicles on a long 

 slender raceme, the standard white, wings and keel blue. 



6. DESMODIUM ORMOCARPOIDES, DC. ; F. B. I. ii. 164 



W. Ghats,, in Mysore, the Anamalais, Tinnevelly and 

 Travancore, up to 3,500 ft. 



A slender erect undershrub with a single lanceolate 

 acuminate leaflet reaching 7 in. long, and pale violet 

 flowers in few-flowered distant fascicles in lax racemes. 



7. DESMODIUM LAXUM. DC. D. podocarpum var. laxitm, Bak. 

 in F. B. I. ii. 165. D. Gardner*, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 165. 



W. Ghats, in the Atapadi, Anamalai and Sivagiri Hills, up 

 to 3.000 ft. 



An erect, usually single-stemmed undershrub with pink 

 flowers and scimitar-shaped joints to the pod. 



8. DESMODIUM DOLABRIFORME, Benth. ; F. B. I. ii. 165. 



W. Ghats, in the Hills of Tinnevelly. 



An undershrub with short erect stem, crowded leaves, 



slender erect racemes and single-jointed pod. 



9. DESMODIUM SCALPE, DC.; F. B. I. ii. 165. D. strangulatum, 

 W. & A. 228 ; Wt. Ic. t. 985. 



W. Ghats, from Mysore and Coimbatore southwards at 

 3,000 to 7,000 ft., in shady woods ; Shevaroy Hills in Salem. 

 An erect herbaceous undershrub with rather large brick- 

 red flowers and usually pubescent leaves with prominent 

 stipules. 



10. DESMODIUM TRIQUETRUM, DC.; F. B. I. ii. 163; W. & A. 

 224. 



N. Circars, forests from Ganjaui to Godavari ; W. Ghats, 

 from S. Caiiara to Travancore, up to 3,000 ft. 

 An erect shrub with leaflets up to 6-8 in. long and tri- 

 quetrous stems ; flowers purple ; pod appressed-pubescent. 



11. DESMODIUM GANGETICUM, DC.; F. B. I. ii. 168; W. & A. 

 225 ; Wt, Ic. t. 271. D. collinum, Wt. Ic. t. 272. 



N. Circars, forests in the hills, to 3,000 ft. on Mahendra- 

 giri ; W. Ghats, in dry forests at low levels ; Shevaroy 

 Hills of Salem ; in forest undergrowth. 

 An erect undershrub reaching o-4 ft. with white or lilac - 

 tinged flowers. 

 Yar. nwculatum, Bak. in F. B. I. ii. 668. 



N. Circars, in Ganjaui Sal forests (Gamble). 



