54 LegUWlinOSCB. [Desmodzum. 



Moist low country and lower montane zone; very common ; var. j3 in 

 Maturata, Kalupahane, &c. Fl. May-Sept., Nov.; purple, sometimes 

 white. 



Throughout the Eastern Tropics, China, and Japan. 



As DCs two names are of the same date, 1 have preferred to maintain 

 that which preserves Linnasus's specific name. This specially belongs to 

 the Ceylon plant, though the peculiarity to which it refers, i.e., the lower 

 pods with only one joint, is by no means always or even often present. 



16. D.jucundum, Thw. E?ium. 411 (1864). [Plate XXVIII.] 

 C. P. 3778. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 172. 



A shrub, 3 or 4 ft. high, branches stout, purplish, the 

 young shoots white with dense silky hair ; 1. rather crowded, 

 3-foliolate, rachis i-i| in., velvety, stip. ovate, acuminate 

 slightly silky, crimson, lflts. 1-2 in. (the terminal rather the 

 larger), oblong or obovate-oval, very obtuse, minutely mucro- 

 nate, glabrous above, white with a dense covering of silky 

 hair beneath and with very prominent lat. veins; fl. large on 

 slender erect ped., longer than cal., usually in pairs ; arranged 

 in short, erect, pubescent, terminal racemes, bracts large, ovate, 

 acute, silky, red, soon falling; cal. nearly glabrous, segm. longer 

 than tube, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate; pod f-i in., 

 straight, shortly beaked, not. at all indented on dorsal and 

 scarcely on ventral margin, joints 3 or 4, half as long again 

 as broad, faintly reticulate, slightly pilose. 



Lower montane zone ; very rare. Half way up Lagalla, Matale East ; 

 first discovered by Mr. A. O. Brodie in Oct. 1862. 

 Fl. June, Sept., Oct. ; rich mauve-purple. 

 Endemic. 

 A showy species, well suited for garden cultivation. 



17. X>. triflorum, DC. Prod. 334 (1825). Hin-undupiyali, S. 



Herm. Mus. 2, 38. Burm. Thes. 118. Fl. Zeyl. n. 297. Hedysarum 

 triflorum, L. Sp. PL 747 (pro max. parte) ; Moon Cat. 54. Thw. Enum. 

 86. C. P. 2779. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 173. Burm. Thes. t. 54, f. 2. Wight, Ic. t. 292. 



A very small perennial herb, with numerous long slender 

 prostrate branches rooting at the nodes, clothed with white 

 spreading hairs; 1. small, 3-foliolate (lower ones often 1 -folio- 

 late), rachis under \ in. stip. ovate, acuminate, persistent, 

 lflts. \-\ in., broadly oval or obovate or obcordate, glabrous 

 above, slightly silky beneath; fl. very small, on long very 

 slender hairy ped., 1-5 (usually 3) together in the axils of 1.; 

 cal. with few bristly hairs, segm. long, setaceous; pod \— | in., 

 nearly straight, not indented on dorsal, slightly so on ventral 

 margin, joints 2-4, as long as broad, reticulate, glabrous. 



