Desmodium. | - LEGUMINOS. 383 
§ Bracts of young inflorescence narrow and in- 
conspicuous and not imbricatin - D, laburnifolium. 
§ § Bracts of young inflorescence scarious and 
large, forming a cate cones, the basal 
ones a persister 
f Basa pe -joint ae but “distinctly 
Racemes sessile or nearly so, butt pod-joints 4 lin, long by 2% 
broad, grey-villous, much i maleated: ¢ on the lower suture; 
branchlets rather terete - D. confertum. 
Racemes very slender and a aligntee than the lenven; sadétio 0 
branched from the base ; pod-joints as in peeeing, sparingly 
and shortly hirsute ; stat al ngular - D. Karensium. 
al pad -joint sessile. 
a lege 14-2 lin. long and nearly as broad, appressed hirsute 
branchlets sharply angular, often villous on the angles : * dD. Sloribundum. 
Pod-joints about a line done and as broad, densely brown-hooked- 
hispid; bra ahies almost terete - D, sequax. 
ghia? team . rit times longer than broad, or 
Pod-joints crescent- eae abruptly eubticeed - both ends; leaves 
oblo igs «i. 
ong, strongly parallel-n concinnum, 
_ ape Pods dehise 
T Fy of cae inflorescence more or less per- 
stent. Pods distinct jointed. 
—- es fruiting pedicels refracted ; racemes shorter 
eaves - D. retroflerum. 
Frits feos erect ; racemes s elongs . D. heterocarpum, 
7 Atl de cts decides tee of pod ‘continuous, 
ints nsverse lines 
sae purple ; po ots broader than nog densely and shortly 
- D. gyroides. 
1. D. pulchellum, Bth.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 162; Brand. For. Fl. 
~ -—Toung-ta-min.—An erect branched. shrub, 3-4 ft. high, the 
r parts shortly pubescent ; stipules and stipulets small, ‘stiff, 
lascockte, subulate-acuminate ; leaves pinnately 3- or occasionally 
1-foliolate, on an appressed pubescent petiole 2-3 lin. long; leaflets 
more or less lanceolate (the lateral ones much smaller and oblique) “ 
on a very short petiolule, 1-3 in. long, bluntish to bluntish acuminate 
with a mucro, slightly remote- repand, chartaceous, above glabrous or 
nearly so, beneath, especially along the nerves and veins, minutely 
pubescent ; flowers small, yellow, in a small sessile head or cluster, 
su leis, small ; calyx about a line ines, oe ian: the teeth lan- 
ceolate, ac uminate ; ‘corolla about 3 lin. long, glabrous ; pods flat. 
: usually 2-jointed, the j joints more or less rounded at both sides, 
