JDesmodium.] LegWUtnOSCB. 49 



A slender shrub with nearly glabrous branches, I. 3-folio- 

 late, rachis i|-if in., channelled, nearly glabrous, stip. small, 

 acuminate, lflts. 3-4 in. (the terminal rather the largest), 

 lanceolate, acute, glabrous above, very slightly pubescent 

 beneath, stiff ; fl. medium-sized, on slender spreading ped. a 

 little longer than cal., racemes slender, axillary, about as long 

 as L, bracts setaceous ; cal. slightly pilose, the lowest segm. 

 much the longest ; pod 2-2f in., linear, indented between the 

 joints, joints 3-6, more than twice as long as broad, rough with 

 minute hooked hairs. 



Upper zone of moist low country, rather common (?). Hantane; 

 Dolosbagie. Fl. Dec. 



Also in E. Bengal, Malay Is., China, and Japan. 



6. D. triquetrum, DC. Prod. ii. 326 (18215)- Baloliya, S. 



Herm. Mus. 35. Burm. Thes. 176. Fl. Zeyl. n. 286. Hedysarum 

 ■triquetrum, L. Sp. PL 746. Moon Cat. 54. Pteroloma triquetrum, 

 Benth., Thw. Enum. 86. C. P. 1431. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 163. Burm. Thes. t. 81 (leaves only). 



An erect shrub, branches few, erect, triquetrous, glabrous 

 or hairy on the angles only; 1. i-foliolate, petiole f-i£ in., 

 leaflike, with a broad wing on either side, stip. \- § in., erect, 

 lanceolate-linear, very acute, glabrous, brown, lflt. variable in 

 size, 3-6 in. (the uppermost ones often smaller), linear- 

 lanceolate (the uppermost almost linear), subcordate at base, 

 gradually tapering to acute apex, glabrous above, hairy on 

 midrib beneath ; fl. small, on short slender ped., 1-3 in a 

 cluster, arranged rather laxly in slender, erect, spike-like 

 terminal and axillary racemes 6-12 in. long, bracts setaceous; 

 cal. with few bristly hairs ; pod about 1 in., erect, linear- 

 oblong with 4-7 joints, continuous and scarcely indented 

 joints as broad as or broader than long, hairy. 



Moist low country up to 3000 ft.; very common. Fl. Sept.; bright 

 violet, often white. 



Also in India, Burma, China, Philippine and Seychelle Is. 



Burmann's figure was made from a living plant in the Amsterdam 

 Hortus Medicus, grown from seed sent from Ceylon by Hartog. 



7. D. ormocarpoides, DC. Prod. ii. 327 (1825). 

 Thw. Enum. 87, 441. C. P. 3812. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 164. 



A small slender under-shrub, the stem procumbent and 

 rooting at the base, branches hairy ; 1. i-foliolate, striate, 

 glabrous, 3-4 in., ovate, somewhat acuminate, mucronate, 

 rounded at base, somewhat crcnate at margin, glabrous above, 

 paler and silky-pubescent especially on veins beneath, petiole 

 in., stip. acuminate, stipels filiform, conspicuous ; fl. few, 

 pakt n. E 



