Desmodium.] Leg2iminosce. 5 1 



margin, joints 3 or 4, boat-shaped, \\ as long as broad, finely 

 pubescent. 



Montane zone; rather common. Fl. Oct.-Jan.; salmon -red or pale 

 orange. 



Also in S. India, Malay Is., Mascarene Is., and Trop. Africa. 



A graceful plant, worth cultivation for the peculiar colour of its flowers. 



10. D. g-angreticum, DC. Prod. ii. 327 (1825). 



Burm. Thes. 113. Hedysarum gangeticum, L. Sp. PI. 746. Thw. 

 Enum. 411. C. P. 3813. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 168. Burm. Thes. t. 49, f. 2. Wight, Ic. tt. 271 and 

 (D. latifoliicm) 272 (not 270). 



A slender under-shrub, stems cylindrical, nearly glabrous, 

 young parts hairy; 1. i-foliolate, petiole long, \-\\ in., hairy, 

 stip. setaceous, lflt. broadly oval or rotundate, rounded at base, 

 subacute, glabrous above, silky and whitish beneath ; fl. very 

 small, on short erect hairy ped. in lax erect terminal spicate 

 racemes, bracts setaceous ; cal. hairy, segm. lanceolate ; pod 

 small, -J;- 1 in., usually somewhat curved, nearly straight on 

 dorsal, very deeply indented on ventral margin, joints 4-8, as 

 broad as long, rounded on ventral margin, set with minute 

 hooked hairs. 



Montane zone, apparently very rare, but probably overlooked. Matale 

 East (Thwaites). Fl. May. 



Throughout Trop. Asia and Africa, &c. 



n. D. latifolium, DC. Prod. ii. 327 (1825). 



Thw. Enum. 87. C. P. 3588. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 168. Wight, Ic. t. 270 (not 272). Bot. Reg. t. 355. 



A small shrub, 3-5 ft, branches densely velvety-pubescent, 

 1. i-foliolate, petiole short, about \ in., stip. broad, suddenly 

 acuminate, lflt. 2^-3 in., deltoid-ovate, truncate or subcordate 

 at base, obtuse or subacute, repand at margin, finely hairy 

 above, densely velvety beneath; fl. small, numerous, on ped. 

 shorter than cal., rather crowded on the branches of copious 

 axillary and terminal ascending panicles; cal. hairy, segm. 

 linear-lanceolate; pod about \ in., straight, slightly indented on 

 dorsal, much more so on ventral margin, joints 4-6, as long as 

 broad, hairy. 



Dry region ; rather rare. Bibile; Mineri. There are also specimens 

 labelled Matale East, probably from the low country. Fl. Feb., June, 

 August; bright red-purple. 



Throughout the Tropics of the Old World. 



12. D. Thwaitosii, Baker in Fl. D. Ind. ii. 169 (1876). 

 D, ttrangulatum, var. ft minor, Thw. Enum. 87. C. P. 3327. 

 M. Ii. Ind. ii. 169. 



