268 CALYCI FLORAE. 



with the shorter hairs hooked. Leaflets elliptic, obtuse, api- 

 culated, villous beneath with the hairs appressed, ciliated. 

 Stipules 2, broad-falciform, attenuate, coloured, ciliated: stipels 

 linear. Petiole terete, compressed, striated, hirsute with 

 hooked hairs. Racemes axillary and terminal. Common 

 peduncle terete, hirsute with hooked hairs. Pedicels 2-3 

 together, filiform. Bracteas small, linear. Flowers small. 

 Calyx irregularly 5-fid, hairy. Standard and wings purple, 

 keel green. Legume 6-jointed, spirally twisted, hispid with 

 hooked hairs. 



According to De Candolle, the stem is somewhat glabrous. 



4. Desmodium ellipticum. Oval-leaved Desmodium. 



Stem suffruticose rooting towards the base after- 

 wards ascending sub-glabrous, leaflets elliptic pu- 

 berulous, stipules subfalcato-lanceolate, racemes ter- 

 minal, pedicels solitary or Q-3 together, calyx 

 ebracteolated, legumes straight hispid with minutely 

 uncinate hairs. 



Hedysarum triphyllum fruticosum minus, Sloane, I. 185. t. 

 118. f. J? 



HAB. Shady situations in the mountains. Neighbourhood 

 of St Catherine's Peak. 



FL. May. 



Stem procumbent and rooting at the base, afterwards ascend- 

 ing, about a foot in height, suffruticose, branched: branches 

 subsimple, slightly compressed, minutely puberulous. Leaflets 

 petiolulated, (the terminal one the largest), elliptic, puberulous: 

 petiole sub-3-gonal, slightly channelled above, puberulous. 

 Stipules lanceolato-falcate (the side next to the petiole straight 

 the other curved), setaceo-attenuated at the apex, striated, 

 ciliated: stipels setaceous. Racemes terminal, elongated (about 

 8 inches in length), subsimple, many-flowered. Peduncle com- 

 pressed striated, hispid with minutely uncinate hairs : pedicels 

 1 or 234 together, about ^ an inch in length, filiform, hispi- 

 dulous. Bracteas at the base of the pedicels, broad-ovate, acu- 

 minate, ciliated, deciduous. Calyx ebracteolated, 2-lipped ; 

 upper lip bifid, with the teeth minute and approximating ; under 

 lip deeply 3- partite with the divisions lanceolate, spreading ; all 

 of them partially hirsute on the back. Standard reflected, 

 roundish, emarginate, purple marked with 2 oblong whitish spots 

 near the base: wings auriculated on the upper edge near the base, 

 and adhering to the keel at the under: keel in 2 pieces, cohering 

 near the apex, of the same size as the wings. Stamens 9 and 1 : 

 anthers roundish, yellow. Ovary pubescent: style longer than the 

 stamens: stigma obtuse, sub-capitate. Legume 4-jointed, hispid. 



This plant agrees in some respects with the HEDYSARUM 



