ON a eae 
Desmodium. } LEGUMINOSE. 385 
_Has.—Common all over Burma from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenas- 
serim and the Andamans, in all leaf-shedding forests, especially the mixed ones, 
but ascending also into the drier hill forests up to 5,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Fr. 
close of R.S. and C.8.—1.—SS.= o. 
5. D. latifolium, DC.; Brand. For. Fl. 145; H.f. Ind. FI. ii. 
168.—Kio-pan-ben.—A large bushy shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high and 
higher, with more or less spreading branches, all the softer parts 
softly pubescent or tomentose ; stipules linear-subulate, rather stiff ; 
leaves 1-foliolate, on a tawny villous petiole 2 to 4 lin. long; 
leaflets more or less ovate to ovate-oblong, very shortly petioluled, 
rounded at the base, bluntish or acute with a mucro, 14-3 in. long, 
mmily membranous, slightly repand, above appressed and rather 
stiff-hairy, beneath softly pubescent or almost villous; flowers — 
small, purple, on very short pubescent pedicels, clustered and form- 
ing a tawny pubescent or almost villous raceme in the axils of the 
leaves and terminal, and often also collected in lax terminal pani- 
cles; bracts and bractlets small, linear-subulate ; calyx a line long, 
pubescent, the teeth linear-lanceolate ; corolla about 3 lin. long or 
somewhat longer, glabrous; pods linear-oblong, often somewhat 
curved, sessile, compressed, villous, 6-3-jointed, the joints almost 
quadrangular with the outer suture rounded, about 2 lin. long, each 
containing a single brown seed. 
Has.—Frequent in the and open forests of Ava, Prome, P and 
Martaban.—F close of RS: Pr CS.—1.—S8.=Dil. Ca8. sot 
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