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ADSCENDENS of Swartz, but differs from it in several important 

 particulars. 



5. Desmodium trigonum. Large climbing Desmo- 

 dium. 



Stem herbaceous scandent triquetrous hairy, leaf- 

 lets ovate or ovato-lanceolate apiculated hairy, racemes 

 terminal very long, legumes tortuous hispid inflected. 



Hedysarum triphyllum maximum, Browne, 301 H. 



adhserens, Vahl, Symb. II. 82. H. trigonum, Swartz, Fl. Ind. 

 Occ. 1267. 



IIAB. Common in the lower mountains of St Andrew's and 

 Port Royal. 



FL. January April. 



Stem climbing to a considerable height, 3-gonal with the 

 angles blunt, and furnished with stiff-hooked hairs directed 

 backwards. Leaves remote ; leaflets ovato-lanceolate (the 

 terminal one the largest) somewhat acuminate, apiculated, 

 nerved, reticulato-venose, rugose or somewhat bullate, ciliated, 

 and on the upper side, in addition to the long straight hairs, 

 furnished along the nerves with adherent hooked hairs : petiole 

 3-quetrous, grooved above. Peduncle of the raceme long, 

 subterete, angulose, with the angles armed with hooked hairs. 

 Flowers purple, rather large and showy, geminate. Bracteas 

 length of the pedicels, ovato-lanceolate, concave, ciliated, mem- 

 branaceous, deciduous. Legumes linear, acuminate, tortuous, 

 hispid with hooked hairs. 



This species is readily recognised from every other in the 

 Island, being the largest and most showy of the genus of which 

 we can boast. By means of the hooked hairs, with which it is 

 plentifully furnished, the branches and leaves as well as the 

 legumes readily adhere to the dress of passengers. I cannot 

 imagine what Swartz meant by describing the apex of the leaf 

 as uncinate. 



6. Desmodium radicans. Hooting Desmodium. 



Stem suffruticose prostrate rooting creeping, leaf- 

 lets obovato-elliptic, acute at the base, rounded at the 

 apex, subglabrous above, hoary and velutino-pubescent 

 beneath, peduncles subradical elongated erect, pedi- 

 cels in pairs, joints of the legume 2 semi-orbiculate 

 hispidulo-adherent. 



Hedysarum axillare, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 1274. 



HAB. Common in St Andrew's and Port-Royal mountains in 



