1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 135 



Tods coriaceous, quite glabrous ... ... 15. D. auriculatum. 



Pods indistinctly jointed, not separating into segments 

 but dehiscing in a continuous line along the ventral 

 Suture (6. Pleurolobium) ... ... ... 16. D. gyroides. 



Subgen. 1. Sagotia Walp. Trailing herbs, with small 3-foliolate 

 stipellate leaves. Flowers in sparse lax racemes or 1-2 in the axils of 

 the leaves ; bracts deciduous and pods distinctly jointed. 



1. Desmodium triflorum DC. Prodr. II, 334. A small trailing 

 herb with very slender diffusely branching stems 6-18 in. long; 

 branches sparsely hirsute with fine spreading hairs. Leaves '5 in. long, 

 3-foliolate ; petiole '2 in. long ; leaflets membranous obovate-cuneate, 

 apex truncate or emarginate, terminal '25 in. long '2 in across, lateral 

 •2 in. long "15 in. across, glabrous above sparsely adpressed-hirsute 

 beneath ; stipels minute subulate, stipules persistent lanceolate "15 in. 

 long. Inflorescence of 1-3-fld. axillary fascicles ; pedicels *25 in., brac- 

 teoles minute. Calyx pubescent with longish white hairs '1-15 in. 

 long ; teeth setaceous longer than narrowly campanulate tube. Corolla 

 pink or occasionally white '2 in. long. Pod '4-6 in. long, 15 in. wide ; 

 joints 3-5, reticulately veined and finely puberulous ; upper suture 

 straight, lower distinctly indented between the joints. Wall. Cat. 5734 

 (except part of F. ) ; Benth. in Mart. Flbr. Bras. XV, 95, t. 26 ; Miq. 

 Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 23d; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 173. D. triflorum 

 var. minus W. & A. Prodr. 229 ; Wight Ic. t. 292. D. heterophyllum 

 Wall. Cat. 5701 C. Hedysarum triflorum Linn. Sp. Pi. 749 ; Boxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 57 ; Flor. Ind. Ill, 353. H. stipulaceum Burm. Flor. Ind. t. 54, f. 

 2. Nicholsonia reptans Meissn. in Linnaea XXI, 260. Sagotia triflora 

 Walp. & Duch. in Linnaea XXII T, 738. 



Andamans; Port Blair, Kurz ! Prain ! Great Coco Island (specns. 

 all white-fid.) Prain! Malacca; Maingay 522! Prov. Wellesley ; King! 

 Penang ; Wallich 5734 I ! Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



An extremely common species in India, not so common in Indo-China ; very 

 rare, perhaps only a recently introduced weed, in Malaya. 



2. Desmodium heterophyllum DC. Prodr. II, 334. A trailing 

 herb with slender diffusely branching stems 2-2*5 feet long ; branches 

 densely hirsute with spreading hairs. Leaves 1-1*5 in. long, 3-foliolate, 

 petiole *5 in. long; leaflets membranous oblong or obovate-oblong apex 

 rounded or subacute, terminal 5-1 in. long, S-'5 in. wide, lateral 

 similar 25-*5 in. long '2-25 in. wide, glabrous above, hairy beneath ; 

 stipels minute subulate, stipules persistent lanceolate '15 in. long. In- 

 florescence of solitary or geminate axillary flowers and, towards ends of 

 branches, of a few axillary lax few-fld. racemes ; pedicels '5-*8 in. long, 

 sparsely pubescent with rusty spreading hairs ; bracts '2 in. long, ovate- 

 lanceolate, deciduous, bracteoles minute. Calyx *15 in. densely hirsute, 



