LEG UMINOSM-PAFILIONA GEM. 311 



branous or small, deciduous or persistent ; bractlets variable, some- 

 times membranous, sometimes minute or 1 (Ail tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions*). 



155? Pseudarthria Wight & Arn. 3 — Flowers of Desmodium. 

 Legume piano-compressed ; sutures straight or slightly and unevenly 

 sinuate between seeds, continuous within, 2-valved; valves thin, 

 transversely veined, not jointed. 4 — Herbs, villous or viscid ; leaves 

 pinnate 3-foliolate ; inflorescence and other characters of Desmodium 

 (Tropical Asia, south-eastern regions and islands of Africa?). 



156? Pycnospora E. Br. 6 — Flowers of Desmodium. Legume 7 

 oblong turgid, continuous within, co-seeded, 2-valved; valves thin, 

 marked by transverse veins, not jointed. Seeds reniform funiculate, 

 thinly arillate. — A slender undershrub ; 8 leaves pinnate 3-foliolate ; 

 stipules 2, membranous striated ; inflorescence terminal, co -flowered 

 (of Desmodium) ; bracts membranous caducous (Tropical Asia and 

 Australia 91 ). 



157. Uraria Desvx. 1 " — Flowers of Desmodium ; germen 2-a> -ovu- 

 late. Legume 2— oo -seeded, constricted between seeds ; segments 

 rather turgid, compressed, folded back one upon the other, inclosed 



1 Bentham divides this genus into 12 sec- 4 This genus is not otherwise distinguished 

 tions, as follows : — 1. Dcndrolobium ; 2. Phyl- from Desmodium, of which it ought, perhaps, 

 loclium ; 3. Dicerma ; 4. Pteroloma ;; 5. Cate- rather to be considered a section. 



nana; 6. Scorpiwnts (Benth.) ; l.Dollinera; 5 Species 3 or 4. Wight, Icon., t. 286. — 



8. Heteroloma (Benth.); 9. Cralarium ; 10. Kl., in Pet. Mossaml., Pot., t. 7 {Anarthro- 



Mcolsonia; 11. Sagotia; 12. Fleurololium(DC.). syne). — Haev. & Sond., Fl. Cap., ii. 299. — 



2 Species about 120. Jacq., Hort. Schcenbr., Baker, in Oliv. FL Trop. Afr., ii. 167. 



t. 297, 298; It: Ear., t. 565.— Wall., PL As. 6 Ap. Wight & kss., Prodr., i. 197.— Endl., 



Bar., t. 94, 157.— Wight, Icon., t. 209, 270- Gen., n. 6529.— B. 11., Gen., 521, n. 173. 



272, 291-294, 298, 373, 374, 406, 407, 409, 418, 7 Small, almost as in the small-fruited Cro- 



419,984, 985. — H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec, talaria; only the transverse veins indicate an 



vi. t. 597-599. — Labill., Sert. Austr.-Caled., affinity with Desmodium, whence the place of 



t. 71, 72. — 'Benth., in Mart. FL Bras., Pupil., this genus remains very doubtful and artificial. 



94, t. 26, 27; in PL Jungh., i. 221; Fl. Austral., 8 Habit entirely that of the 3-foliolate species 



ii. 229. — Hook. & Arn., Beech. Voy., Bot., t. of Desmodium. 



87, <jo. — Miq., Fl. Ind.-But., Suppl., 305.— 9 Species 1. P. hedysaroides It. Be., loc. 



Tnw., Fnum. PL Zeyl., 411. — Haev. & Sond., tit. — Bj nth., Fl. Austral., ii. 236.— P. nervosa 



Fl. Cap., ii. 228. — Baker, in Oliv. FL Trop. Wight &Abn. Crotalaria ? nervosa Gkaii., in 



Afr., ii. 159. — Bot. Reg., t. 355, 815, 967.— Cut. Wall., n. 5428 B. — Indigqf era desmodioides 



Bot. Mag., t. 2867, 2960, 3553, 5452.— Walp., Beknii., PL In, I. Rohen., n. 303. 



Pep., i. 736 ; ii. 890 ; v. 525 ; Ann., i. 219 ; ii. 10 Journ. Bot., i. 122, t. 5.— DC, Prodr., ii. 



413; iv. 537. 324. — Endl., Gen., n. 6610.— H. 11., Gen., 521, 



3 Prodr., i. 209. — Endl., Gen., n. 6689.— n. 17 4. — Doodia ltoxu., Ilort. Calc, 99; Fl. 

 B. H., Gen., 521, n. 172. — Anarthrosyne E. Ind., iii. 365 (nee It. Be.). 



Mi: v., Comm. PL Afric. Auslr., 121.— Endl., 

 Gen., u. 6613. 



