ium. 



146 XXXI. LEGUMINOSiE. [Desmodium 



foliolate, broad-ovate, 4-5 in. long, with an obtuse or cordate base, rough 

 above, soft-tomentose beneath. Stipules semicordate, cuspidate. Flowers 

 bright purple, in axillary and terminal racemes. Pods 4-5 jointed, hairy 

 with stiff hooked hairs. 



Bengal, Ceylon, Burma. Oudh forests. Kamaon. Fl. C.S. 



This genus comprises numerous other shrubs and undershrubs within the 

 range of this Flora, of which the following are the more common kinds : Simple 

 leaves have : 1. D. triquetrum, DO. ; W. & A. Prodr. 224 (Hedys. triq., Roxb. 

 iii. 347) ; with broadly winged petioles. 2. D. gangeticum, DC. ; Wight Ic. 271 

 {Hedys. ganget., Roxb. iii. 349) ; with ovate, acute leaves. Trifoliolate leaves 

 have : 3. D. floribundum, G. Don. Syn. D. multiflorum, DC. D. dubium, 

 Bot. Reg. t. 967 ; Bot. Mag. t. 2960. 4. D. oxyphyllum, DC, leaves and pods 

 nearly glabrous ; pods reticulate. 5. D. continuum, DC. (J), pendulum, Wall. 

 PI. As. rar. t. 94), leaflets oblong, with marked lateral nerves, ascends to 7000 ft. 

 in the North- West Himalaya. 6. D. gyrans, DC. ; Wight Ic. t. 294 (Hed. gyrans, 

 Roxb. iii. 351) ; lateral leaflets small, very sensitive, showing a rotatory motion 

 during the day. 



16. OUGEINIA, Benth. 



Tree with trifoliolate leaves, and large stipellate leaflets, the 2 lateral 

 opposite. Stipules free, deciduous. Flowers white or pale rose-coloured, 

 on slender pedicels, 2 or 3 from one point, in short fasciculate racemes on 

 the old wood. Bracts small, scaly ; small persistent bractlets under the 

 calyx. Calyx indistinctly 2-lipped, upper lip emarginate or bidentate. 

 Standard nearly orbicular, short-clawed. Wings conform to and equal to 

 the keel, slightly adhering to it. Stamens connate to beyond the middle, 

 one quite free ; anthers equal. Ovary sessile, with numerous ovules ; style 

 incurved, subulate; stigma capitate, terminal. Pod linear-oblong, flat, 

 veined, contracted between the seeds, scarcely dehiscent. Seeds 2-5, 

 flat. 



1. 0. dalbergioides, Benth. TAB. XXIII. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 36. 

 Syn. Ddlbergia Oojeinensis, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 220; Wight Ic. t. 391. 

 Sans. Tinisa. Vern. Sannan, sdndan, chdndan, Pb., N.W.P. ; Shdnjan, 

 pdnan, Oudh ; Tinsa, tinnas, tiwas, tewas, dhewas, C.P. ; Ser-marra, 

 Gondi ; Tunnia, Banswara ; Telus, Khandeish Dangs. 



Pubescent, terminal leaflet broad-oval, 2-6 in. long, lateral oblique-oval, 

 1 J-3 in. long ; edge undulate, shallow-crenate, 4-8 prominent main nerves 

 on either side of midrib. 



A .common tree in Central and Northern India, as far as the Godavery on the 

 east side and Canara on the west side of the Peninsula. In the outer Himalayan 

 forests from the Great Gandak river to the Sutlej, ascending in the valleys to 

 4000, and in places to 5000 ft. The Jhelam appears to be its north-western 

 limit, but it is scarce between that river and the Sutlej. Its southern and eastern 

 limits require further inquiry. It is found in the Oudh, Gorakhpur, Godavery, 

 and Canara forests. The old leaves are shed in Jan. and Feb., the new foliage 

 comes out in April, May. The flowers appear before the leaves are fully out, 

 from March-May. 



A middle-sized tree, 20-40 ft. high, with a short, crooked, and often gnarled 

 trunk, 3-5 ft., occasionally 7-8 ft. girth. Bark cinereous or dark brown, with 

 long perpendicular and short cross-fissures, brittle corky scales peeling off. 





