388 LEGUMINOS&. [ Desmodium. 
acuminate, the lateral ones shorter; corolla about 4 lin. long ; pods 
sessile, elongate-linear, compressed, appressed tawny or brown- 
irsute, sinuately 7- to 4- or fewer-jointed, the articles 1} to 2 lin. 
long and somewhat narrower, slightly curved on the outer, rounded 
on the inner margin, each containing a single reniform-oblong 
sores — 
ot unfrequent i in the hill nae of Martaban and ae Tenasserim, 
eaten ink er elevation.—-Fl. close of R.S.; Fr. March —].—SS. = Metam. 
11. D. concinnum, DC.; HE Ind. Fl. ii. 170. ee erect, 
branched shrub, 2-4 ft. high, ‘the reo Brahdtilets shortly tawny 
pets ; stipules scarious, 4 an in. long or somewhat shorter, 
ear-lanceolate, subulate- sad saris striate, glabrous ; aes! 
sabalite, 3-2 in. long ; 3 leaves pinnately 3-foliolate, on an a 
pubescent petiole }-} in. long ; leaflets obovate-oblong to cliiptically- 
oblong, on a short tawny pubescent petiolule, mucronate-acute, 1- 
in. long, entire, chartaceous, above very slightly, beneath thinly, 
appressed pubescent, the oblique lateral gi almost straight and 
pilose pedicels about § in. long, ceaaae we and forming tawny 
nase par RS slender terminal racemes; bracts large but 
very deciduous, lanceolate, acuminate }-3 in. long, eparine'y pilose 
but densel pilo ose-frin ; cal ohallae, about 24 lin. across, 
minutely nt sparingly sdhorelana 2 of the teeth more produced 
and acuminate ; corolla glabrous, nearly 4 in. long; pods ona 
spreading 2 lin. long stalk, minutely glandular-puberulous, 5-1- 
oa 
jointed, the articles oacarbet compressed, crescent-shaped, about 
2 to 24 lin. long, indehiscent, aks containing a single glossy- 
brown reniform 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the ge pastarye ~— in grassy places “ the drier 
hills, epuaalts the pine forests, of Martaban, at 4,000 to 6,000 ft. ele vation.— 
Fr. March.—l.—SS. = Me at. 
12. D. gyroides, DC.; H-f. Ind. Fh. ii. 175.—A spreading 
erect shrub, from a few cae up to 5 ft. high, the stems almost terete 
‘and glabrous, under favourable circumstances up to I¢ in. thick, 
the branchlets thinly or thickly pubescent; bark thin, blackish ; 
stipules ae a broad base ne subulate-acuminate, striate, 
; leaves — 3- and 
or oie pubescent 4 to 3 10. long 
vetiles leaflets lita to sf wena oval and —— sei aes 
wi 
“ort miloxt a minute mucro, thin shartabous; — alin. 
rather short but rather crowded gta or almos 
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