426 BENGAL PLANTS. [Desmodiun. 
1638 partly, not of DC. Hedysarwm triquetrum F. 1. iii, 347, 
not of Linn. 
E. Bengal; N. Bengal. 
A diffuse undershrub. 
616. DesMopIUM RENIFORME DC.; F. B. I. ii. 178. 
N. Bengal. 
A diffuse trailing herb. 
617. Desmoprum pracuystacuyum Grah.; F. B. I. ii. 171. 
Chota Nagpur 
diffuse, trailing herb. 
618. Desmopium gyrans DC.; F. B. I. ii. 174. Hedysarum 
gyrans F, I, iii. 351. 
In all the provinces, but nowhere plentiful. 
An undershrub with motile leaflets. Beng. Gora chand. 
The Semaphore plant 
618/2. Var. Royzer Bak.; F. B. I. ii. 175. 
Behar; Chota Nagpur; E. Bengal. 
An ise shrub, 
619. Desmopium erromes DC.; F. B. I. ii. 176. 
N. Bengal, 
A large ae with very showy flowers. 
271. Alysicarpus Neck. 
Diffuse or erect annual or biennial herbs ; leaves 1-foliolate, rarely 
3-foliolate ; stipules scarious, acuminate, free or connate; § els 
subulate. Flowers s terminal, rarely axillary racemes; 
edicels adie: usually in tee bracts scarious, mostly pase, 
bracteoles 0. Sepals 5, very slightly connate below ; lobes glum 
ceous or striate, subequal, only the 2 upper connate to neat ihe 
apex. Petals hardly or not exserted ; standard obovate or orbicu- 
lar, narrowed to a claw; wings obliquely oblong, adnate ee 
keel; keel slightly incurved, obtuse, usually wi with a lateral appe™ 
connate. Ovary sessile or shortly stipitate, many-ovuled ; style 
filiform, incurved at the tip; stigma wide-capitate, terminal. 
Fruit a subterete or turgid lomentum, constricted or not between 
the ovate or globose or oblong and truncate convex OF 
indehiscent, 1-seeded joints. Seeds suborbicular or globose ; 
strophiole 0. 
