. Desmodium.) LEGUMINOSH#. _ 421 
subulate. Flowers usually in pairs, in lax terminal racemes; 
bracts acuminate, caducous; bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, connate in a 
campanulate tube; teeth subequal, rather broad, accrescent. 
Petals short ; standard obovate or obcordate, claw narrow; wings 
obliquely oblong, adnate to the slightly curved, obtuse keel. 
sag 10; ana filament free, the others connate ; anthers 
unifo Ovary 2- or more-ovuled, sessile or stipitate ; — 
ocaeiad indlonea : stigma wide-capitate, terminal. Prwit 
lomentum of 2 or more 1- seeded, indehiscent, soahas aa 
subturgid joints folded together within the calyx. Seeds orbicular 
or su anes strophiole 0. 
599. Lour 4 VESPERTILIONIS Desv.; F. B. 1. ii. 154. Hedysarum 
Sometimes planted ; often as an escape in waste places. 
An erect, little-branched herb. Beng. Chamchika. 
269. Ougeinia Benth. 
A tree; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; stipules free, deciduous ; 
Stipels rather large. Flowers in densely fascicled racemes in leaf- 
axils and on old wood; pedicels fascicled on the rachis; bracts 
small, scale-like; bracteoles under the calyx minute, persistent. 
Sepals 5, connate in an obtusely campanulate ame ee all 
obtuse, the lowest larger than _ the 2 pik 
emarginate lip. Petals much exserted; standard oc i 
short-clawed ; wings obliqu ae hess one adnate to the 
obtuse, oniiotrhuit incurved keel. Stamens 10; vexillary filament 
ee, the rest connate; wae uniform. Ovary sessile, many 
ovuled ; style incurved, te; stigma terminal, capitate 
reticulate, hardly dehiscent joints. Seeds compressed, reniform ; 
8trophiole 0, 
- OUGEINIA DaLBERGIOIDES Benth.; F. B. I. ii. 161; E. D. 
0. 5387. Dalbe ergia ecbaeat: F. I. iii. 220. 
Behar ; Chota Nagpur; Oriss 
An erect tree. Hind. wae Beng. Tinis; Uriya 
Bandhona; Kol. Ruta 
270. Desmodium Desv. 
Herbs t shrubs, rarely small trees; leaves 1- foliolate or pin- 
nately a, ; stipules dry, usually striate, free or connate 
