Desmodium. ] LEGUMINOSA. 387 
terminal leafy panicle ; bracts about 1-1} lin, long, linear-lanceolate, 
acuminate, pubescent, very deciduous; calyx more than a line long, 
sparingly hirsute, the teeth lanceolate-acuminate; corolla about 4 
lin. long; pods almost moniliform, elongate-linear, sessile, com- 
pressed, shortly and densely brown or greyish brown hirsute, 7-12- 
jointed, the articles nearly 13 lin. long and broad, indehiscent, on 
the outer suture slightly, on the inner strongly, rounded, each con- 
taining a blackish almost orbicular seed. 
Haz.—Martaban hills, east of Tounghoo, in the drier forests, at 4,000 to 
5,000 ft. elevation.—Fr. March.—l.—SS. — Metam. 
9. D. Karensium, Kz.—A large simple or almost simple-stemmed 
shrub, all softer parts more or less pubescent, the stems angular, 
glabrescent; leaves 3-foliolate, large, on a rescent petiole 2-3 
m. long ; leaflets rhomboid-ovate, the lateral ones obliquely so, on 
a very short, stout, tomentose petiolule, shortly acuminate, 3-5 in. 
long, membranous, above minutely puberulous, beneath almost 
greyish pubescent ; racemes filiform, branched from the base or more 
usually forming a sessile or almost sessile puberulous glabrescent 
panicle in the axils of the leaves and often shorter than them; ~ 
pedicels filiform, by 3-1, puberulous, 3-4 lin. long ; bracts deciduous, 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, hirsute-ciliate, deciduous, the asal 
ones more persistent, larger and 3-34 lin. long; calyx (in fruit) 
‘sparingly hirsute, about 2 lin. long or somewhat longer, the lobes 
linear-subulate ; pods linear, 1-14 in. long, many-jointed, shortly 
hirsute, the joints a little longer than broad, 3 lin. long, truncate 
at both ends, the outer suture slightly, the inner strongly, rounded. 
— i ier hill forests, especially the pine forests, of 
the 2 reli oe ie Byler ft. elevation; a é Av, Khakyén hills.— 
Fr. March-A pr.—l.—SS. = Metam. 
10. D. floribundum, Don.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 167.—An erect- 
branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high, the stems and branches, especially while 
young, 5-angular and densely villous fringed along the angles ; 
stipules appressed pubescent, linear-lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, 
3-$ in. long; leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, on a tawny pubescent 
strong petiole 4-1 in. long; leaflets more or less obovate (the lateral 
ones oblique and often more ovate), blunt or acute to shortly 
acuminate, mucronate, 1-3 in. long, entire or nearly so, firmly 
memb , above thinly, } th e densely, app I it 
_ and glaucescent; flowers rather small, purple (?), on capillary 2-3 
lin. long puberulous pedicels, forming : 
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