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sum DC. Prodr. II, 335, non 336. Hedysarum recurvatum Roxb. Hort. 

 Beng. 57 ; Fl. Ind. Ill, 358 ; Wight, Ic. t. 409. E. diffusum Roxb. Fl. 

 Ind. Ill, 357, not of Willd. H. Roxburghii Spreng. Syst. App. 292. 

 H. Bottleri Spreng. Syst. Ill, 320. 



Andamans ; Great Coco, Train ! Nicobars ; Kondil, Kurz ! Distrib. 

 Throughout India, Indo-China and Malaya. 



11. Desmodium ormocarpoides DC. Prodr. II, 327. An erect 

 undershrub 2-5 feet high with woody slender obtusely angled stems, at 

 first densely clothed with short hairs at length glabrescent. Leaves 5-7 

 in. long, 1-foliolate, petiole *75 in. long, pubescent with spreading hairs, 

 channelled above ; leaflet subcoriaceous, green and glabrous above, 

 sparsely pubescent to closely silky beneath, ovate-acute, base rounded or 

 truncate, 4-6 in. long 15-2'25 in. wide, lateral nerves 6-8 pairs visible 

 beneath; stipels subulate, '2 in. long; stipules ovate long-acuminate 

 scarious, *3 in. long, subpersistent. Inflorescence in terminal or rarely 

 axillary racemes 6-10 in. long, of 12-20 distant solitary flowers or 

 few-fld. fascicles ; bracts and bracteoles minute linear or setaceous ; 

 rachis puberulous with rusty tomentum as are the ultimately patent 

 pedicels - 25-"35 in. long. Calyx 1 in. pubescent, tube campanulate, 

 teeth short deltoid. Corolla white, "2 in. long. Pod 3-4 in. long, pendu- 

 lous, "15 in. wide; joints 6-8, '6 in. long, indehiscent, constricted at both 

 sutures, longitudinally ribbed, closely beset with short hooked hairs. 

 Miq. Flor. Iud. Bat. I, 249 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 164. Hedysarum 

 adhaerens Poir. in Lamk. Encyc. Meth. V, 15 not of Yahl. H. ormocar- 

 poides Desv. ex DC. Prodr. II, 327. Humph. Herb. Amboin. VI, t. 66. 



Var. velutina ; leaves softly silky beneath. D. zonatum Miq. Flor. 

 Ind. Bat. I, 250. 



Andamans ; common in the interior of the Islands. Selangor ; 



Ridley 7295 ! Pahang ; Kwala Tembeling, Ridley 2605 ! Distrib. Java. 



The typical form of this species has leaves very sparsely hairy beneath ; it 



occurs in Java (fide De Candolle), and is common in India from Ceylon and the 



Pulney Mts. northwards to Assam. 



§ Heteroloma Bth. Joints of pod indehiscent, hardly longer than 

 broad ; upper suture straight or slightly indented ; calyx-teeth exceed- 

 ing tube. 



12. Desmodium gangeticum DC. Prodr. II, 327. A slender 

 undershrub 1-4 feet high with woody obtusely angled glabrescent stems 

 and angled adpressed-puberulous branches. Leaves 4-6 in. long, 1- 

 foliolate, petiole "75 in. long channelled and with a few adpressed hairs 

 above ; membranous or rarely subcoriaceous, green and glabrous above, 

 a little paler adpressed-puberulous beneath ; ovate-acute, base rounded 

 or truncate, 3-5*5 in. long 1-2 in. wide, lateral nerves 8-9 pairs slightly 



