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(11) ) Flowers all 1-3 together without a common peduncle in the axils 



of the leaves D. triftorum. 



j\ Flowers some racemed, the others pedicelled in the axils of the 



leaves. (12) 

 f) Flowers all in lax racemes. (13) 



(12) Leaves 1-foliolate, leaflets broader than long, reuiform. . . D. reniforme. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate, calyx-teeth and pedicels elongated. . . D. lieterophyUum. 



(13) D. parvifolium. 



(14) Branches scarcely woody, terminal leaflet usually 4-6 times as long as 



broad, pod glabrescent or inconspicuously downy D. gyrans. 



Branches woody, and leaflets 2-3 times as long as broad, pod loosely 

 but copiously pubescent D. gyroides. 



Species not mentioned in the Key. 



Very graceful, very slender, nearly filiformed, leaves simple, triangularly 

 cordate, thinly chartaceous D. graciUimum. 



Desmodium Cephalotes WALL. ; BAKER et HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 

 p. 161 ; HAXCE in Jonrn. Bot. (1880), p. 260 ; MAXIM, in Mel. Biol. XII. p. 

 438 ; WIGHT Ic. PL Ind. Or. t. 373 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 

 171 ; MATSUM. et HAYATA Enurn. PL Formos. p. 106. 



HAB. Takow. 



DISTEIB. Common in tropical Asia. 



Desmodium floribundum G. DON ; BAKER in HOOK. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 H p. 167 ; FORBES et HEMSL. Ind. Fl. Sin. I. p. 172. 

 HAB. 



DISTRIB. China and India. 



Desmodium formosanum HAYATA Materials for a Flora of Formosa 

 p. 77. Branches nearly straight, albicant, dark-tomentose remotely foliate. 

 Leaves trifoliolate, broadly ovate in outline, 10 cm. long including petioles, 

 7 cm. broad, terminal leaflet obloug-olwvate, 6 cm. long, 3J cm. broad, 

 rounded at the apex, aristate at the extremity, (arista 4 mm. long) obtuse at 

 the base, slightly cuneate, entire, depressingly pilose above, shortly villose be- 



