Besmodmm.] l. LEGUMiNOSai. (J. G.Baker.) 165 



liroEXH--wEST PHOTiNCEs, Soyle ; BuNDELCTJOT), Edgeworth. — BisTEiB. Trop. 

 America, Africa, Polynesia. 



A Cffispitose erect annual, ^2 feet high, with very slender glabrous stems. Leaves 

 distinctly petioled, 3-foliolate, green, membranous, subglabrous ; end one ovate or lan- 

 ceolate, ^-1^ in. long. Bacemes copious, axillary and terminal, the latter much pa- 

 nicled ; bracts minute, setaceous ; pedicels filiform, patent, glabrous, -f^ in. Cah/x 

 Jf in. ; teeth as long as the tube. Pod f-J in. long, jV^ broad, 4-6-joiuted, glabrous. 



*** JoiTits of pod indehiscent, longer than h-oad, the lowest one digtmctli/ 

 stalked, the constrictions reaching from the lower nearly to the vmper suture. 

 (PODOCAEPITM, Senth.) 



_ 13. D. podocarpum, DC. Prodr. ii. 336 ; corolla small, bracts linear 

 minute, stalk of pod 3-4 times as long as the calyx, pedicels short; joints 

 trmicate at the apex. Wall. Cat. 6711, more Hooh. ^ Am. Sot. Seech, t. 98. 

 D. japonicum, JMiy. Ann. Mm. Lugd. Sat. iii. 46. 



Temperate and tropical HntAiiTAs, alt. 2-7000 ft. ; from Simla and G-dbwhax to 

 Khasia and Sikkim, — Distrib. China, Japan. 



Stems 2-3 ft., herbaceous, angular, erect, finely pubescent. Stipules small, seta- 

 ceous ; petiole 1-3 in. ; leaflets 3, membranous, both surfaces subglabrescent, the lower 

 one pale ; end one roundish, subacute, 2-3 in. long, with a deltoid base. Bacemes few, 

 very lax, axillary and terminal, the latter reaching a foot long, copiously panicled ; 

 bracts minute, linear ; pedicels under ^ in. Calyx turbinate, ^ in., slightly bristly ; 

 teeth deltoid, very short. Corolla ^ in. Joints 1-2, ^ in. long by half as broad, 

 half-rhomboidal, pubescent, the upper suture flattened. 



Var. laxum ; leaflets larger, the end one 2-3 times as long as broad narrowed 

 gradually to a point. D. laxum, DC. loo. cit. Hedysarum laxum, Spreng, Syst. App. 

 292. D. trinerve, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5720. — Kumaon, Nipal and Sikkim. 



14. D, Gardneri, Senth. PI. Jungh. 226 ; corolla small, bracts setaceous 

 minute, stalk of pod 8-12 times the calyx, pedicels moderately long, joints ob- 

 lique or truncate at the apex. D. bambusetorum, Miq. Flor. Ind. Sat. i. 266 ? 

 ip. podocarpum, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Sat. iii. 46, non DC. 



West Peninsula, Shevagerry hills, Dr. Wight, Cbyxon, Gardner. — ^Disteib. 



General habit of the last, of which it is perhaps a mere southern variety. Stipules 

 linear, J-^ in. ; petiole 2-3 in. ; leaflets 3, membranous, subglabrescent, the end one 

 narrow-ovate, 4-6 in. long, narrowed gradually to a point. Pedicels ^-J in. ; bracts, 

 calyx and coroUa of D. podocarpum. Joints 2-3, J— f in. long, ^ in. broad, out aWay 

 in an oblique line from opposite the point to the base ; stalk of pod J— | in. long. 



16. D. dolabrlfonne, Senth. PI. Jungh. 226 ; corolla small, bracts mi- 

 nute setaceous, stalk of pod 2-3 times as long as the calyx, pedicels short, joints 

 oblique at the apex. 



Western Peninsula, Caenatic, near Cqurtallum, Wight ; TinneveUey, Beddome. 



Leaves crowded on an erect stem a few inches high. Stipules small, lanceolate, 

 persistent ; petiole 1-lJ in. ; leaflets 3, membranous, both surfaces green, lower ob- 

 scurely pilose, end one ovate, narrowed gradually to an obtuse point, twice as long as 

 broad, 1^2 in. long, base deltoid. Bacemes simple, lax, long-peduncled, terminal, 2-3 

 in. long ; pedicels J-J in., finally patent. Calyx i in., turbinate ; lower tooth lanceo- 

 late, as long as the tube, upper deltoid. Joint solitary, half-rhomboidal, | in. long, 

 three times as long as broad, narrowed gradually from above the middle to the tip and 

 stalk. 



16. D, Scalpe, DC. Prodr. ii. 334 ; coroUa large, bracts large ovate, pe- 

 dicels very long, stalk of pod twice as long as the calyx. D. strangulatum, W. 

 '^ A. Prodr. 228 ; Wight Ic. t. 985. D. trichocaulon, Hassk. PI. Jav. Bar. 367, 



