— Desmodium] LEGUMINOS#. ic 423 
{Bracts small, simple, deciduous —{p. 422] 
| Flowers in dense, short- -peduncled, preach umbels; woody 
rubs : 
es terete ; joints of pod large, longer than broad 
ellatum, 
Branches angular; joints of pod small, as broad as long :— 
P. silky ephalotes 
Pods glabrescent. ....:0-,<s+cexs seer Ce a var. congesta, 
Flowers in more or less elongated race 
Joints of — not longer than broad, “add dehiscing along the 
lower suture 
Stems clothed with adpressed hairs ............++- polycarpun, 
Stems clothed with spreading hairs 
polycarpum var. trichocaulon. 
Joints of ta 4 times as long as broad, each joint indehiscent 
laxiflorum. 
tLeaves 1-foliolate :—[p. 422] 
Stems erect or suberect :— 
Petioles not winged :— 
aflets membranous 
oblong, acute, glabrescent on 
emes lax ; pods ers: leaflets pT 
Taller ; leaves rounded or cuneate at base ...... 
Dwarf ; leaves cordate at base, eae or 
ticum yar. maculata. 
Racemes dense; pods densely schoo leaflets obscurely 
Wepahds es stl pa ee virgatum, 
Leaflets coriaceous, as broad as long, ovate, subobtuse, repand, 
densely date scabrous; racemes dense; pods densely 
Pubescerit 3.6 3 es Ue ee a is hasaetiensd latifolium. 
eee acy winged :-— 
s hairy throughout, na 
Ay glabrous throughout, pes ida. ‘thinly ‘membranous 
tum 
or apenas op longer than broad, 
rface 
gangeticum. 
.trique trum, 
Stems diffuse 
Petioleg edly winged ; pods with a line of as hairs along 
each suture, has QIADTOUS ....2-.eeeeeevenre ees pseudo-triquetrum. 
Petioles not w inge 
Leaves reniform ; ale glabrous, teeth short ; pedicels straight ; 
pods 3-5-jointed, joints longer than broad ; racemes mes lax 
reniforme. 
Leaves rounded, ee calyx densely hairy, teeth long ; 
pedicels decurved at tip; pods eae beg ee 
long ; racemes tain (panera achystachyum, 
