382 LEGUMINOSE. ; [ Desmodium. 
subulate, about 2-24 lin. long; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, on a 
slender canescent petiole 4 an in. long; leaflets shortly petioluled, 
elliptical to elliptically ovate, 4-1 in. long, chartaceous, glabrous and 
dark-green above, beneath glaucescent and minutely appressed grey- 
ish pubescent ; flowers small, blue (?), on tawny pubescent }-1 lin. 
long pedicels, forming stiff tawny pubescent racemes in the dite of 
the leaves and _~ crowded at the end of the branchlets; bracts 
deciduous ; calyx densely tawny pubescent, about 2 lin. long, the 
lobes subulate ; gies ney. 34 iin, long; pods (unripe) obliquely 
ovate, aéaininate, silk-hai 
Has.—Martaban, Karen hills 
DESMODIUM, Desv. 
Calyx-tube short, the 2 upper lobes or teeth more or less 
united, the lower 3 acute or subulate-acuminate. Standard from 
terminal minute capitate stigma. Pods longer than the calyx, 
sessile or stalked, pase the articles more or ae dehiscent 
along the lower sutur indehiscent, many- rarely 1-seeded.— 
Shrubs or endcice a, ares herbs, with pinnately 3-foliolate or 
1-foliolate — Stipules and stipulets present. Flowers usually 
inal racemes or panicles, or rarely in axillary umbels 
or ake 
clustered in the axils of bract-like large compli- 
neers 2-foliolate persistent floral leaves. 
X Pods —— —- n the margin, net-veined ; _ 
‘ . D. pulchellum, 
x X Pods pubescent or villous- “pubescent. 
Leaflets 1-2 in. long, rounded or almost retuse Z . D. vestitum. 
Leaflets 3-5 in. long, acuminate . D. grande. 
* * Inflorescence — floral leaves. Braots deciduous, 
2 Pepe yooh. 1- foliclate, 
Branches 3 rered ; 5 spc Scie e79 5 i , . D. triquetrum. 
Branches ti _——< : Z 3 . D. latifolium. 
ves sponte 
ss Pods ee 
Flowers in mecca! — 
Pod- ~joints 3 in } in. long g = . D. umbellatum. 
ae a only 2 lin. long ee oD: cephalo' 
os ——— in terminal or axillary racemes or | pani- 
= Fo pnts usually as long or about are 
: longer than broad, more or less indented 
“tara aensae 
