46 LegwminOSCB. \Desmodium. 



terminal racemes or panicles ; cal. campanulate or cup-shaped, 

 segm. usually nearly equal, upper often more or less connate ; 

 keel-pet. obtuse, stam. diadelphous ; style curved upwards ; 

 pod much compressed, composed of several 1 -seeded joints, 

 usually indehiscent (very rarely opening along ventral suture). 

 — Sp. 120 ; 49 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Joints of pod well marked, as long as or longer than broad (except 

 sometimes No. 6). 

 Joints indehiscent. 



Stems more or less erect. 



Fl. in axillary umbels or heads {Dendrolobium). 



Branches cylindrical, lflts. obtuse . 1. D. UMBELLATUM. 

 Branches triquetrous, lflts. acute . 2. D. CEPHALOTES. 



Fl. in terminal or axillary racemes. 

 Each cluster of fl. concealed between 



a pair of roundish lflts. (Phyllodium) 3. D. PULCHELLUM. 

 Fl. not concealed. 



Pod under I in., of 2 joints (Dzcerma) 4. D. biarticulatum. 

 Pod over § in. 



Branches triquetrous, 1. i-foliolate 



(Pteroloma) . . . . 6. D. TRIQUETRUM. 

 Branches not triquetrous. 



Joints at least twice as long as 

 broad. 

 Pod 3-4 in., joints 5 times as 



long as broad . . . 7. D. ORMOCARPOIDES. 

 Pod 2-3 in., joints 7.\ times as 



long as broad (Catenaria) . 5. D. LABURNIFOLIUM. 

 Pod 1-I5 in., joints twice as 

 long as broad. 

 Pod long-stalked, joints 



obliquely truncate . . 8. D. Gardneri. 

 Pod sessile, joints semi- 

 circular . . . . 12. D. Thwaitesii. 

 Joints less than twice as long as 

 broad. 

 Pod shortly stalked . . 9. D. SCALPE. 

 Pod sessile. 

 L. i-foliolate. 



Lflt. broad-oval, acute . 10. D. GANGETICUM. 

 Lflt. ovate-deltoid, obtuse n. D. latifolium. 

 L. 3-foliolate. 



Bracts small, setaceous . 13. D. Wightii. 

 Bracts large, ovate or 

 lanceolate. 

 Pod of 5-8 joints in- 

 dented on ventral 

 margin. 



Pods spreading . 14. D. RUFESCENS. 

 Pods erect . . 15. D. heterocarpum. 

 Pod of 3 or 4 joints, 



not indented . . 16. D. JUCUNBUM. 



