174 L. LEGUMEJOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) [Besmodium. 



oblong or otovate-oblong, J-1 in. long, hairy beneath. Flowers solitary or geminate 

 in leaf-axils and up to 6 in copious lax racemes ; bracts rather laige, lanceolate, de- 

 ciduous; pedicels i-J in. Calyx ^ in., densely hairy; teeth very long, setaceous. 

 Fod J-3 in., long, \^ in. broad, glabrescent; joints 4-5, as broad as long ; upper 

 suture straight, lower considerably indented. 



*** Flowers all in lax racemes. 



46. D. Rottleri, Baker, non G. Don; stipules miieh shorter than the 

 petiole, calyx-teeth short, joints 1-2, consteiction between them very deep. 

 D. prsemorsum, ChraJi. in Wall. Cat. 5703 ? Eleiotis Eottleri, TF. Sr A'. Prodr. 

 2.31. Hedysarum orHculatum, Bottler MSS. Oxydium speeife^ Bennett PI. 

 Jav. Bar. 156. Stylosanthes facie oxaUdea, Wall. Cat. 5974. 



Plains of Mtsoee, Bottler ; Prome, Wallich. 



Stems 1 ft. or more long, copiously branched, finely downy at first. Stipides linear- 

 setaceous, minute ; petiole ^-| in. ; leaflets 3, obovate, |-| in. long and broad, trun- 

 cate or emarginate, with a few adpressed hairs beneath. Bacemes copious, axiUarj 

 and terminal, long-peduncled, laxly 6-8-flowered ; bracts boat-shaped, hiding the buds ; 

 pedicels \-^ in. Calyx i in., campanulate ; teeth subdeltoid. Joints ^ in. long, 

 twice as long as broad, the constriction from below reaching nearly to the straight 

 upper suture. 



47. D. parvifolium, DC. Prodr. ii. 334 ; stipules as long as the petiole, 

 calyx-teeth long setaceous, joints 3-4 with shallow constrictions between them. 



WaU. Cat. 5700 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 229. D. scopai-ium, Wall. Cat. 6699. D. 

 microphyUum, Miq. Fl. Pnd. Bat. i. 239, an DCf D. stipulaceum, Hatsk. PI. 

 Jav. Bar. 361. Hedysarum teneUum, Don Prodr. 243, non Kv/nth. 



Everywhere in the plains, from the Himaxatas to CEyxoir and AvA, ascending to 

 the temperate region, reaching 7000 ft. in Kumaon. — Disteib. Malay isles, China, 



Stems densely caespitose and branched, wide-trailing, at first pubescent. Stipules 

 ^ in., linear-setaceous, persistent ; leaflets oblong or obovate, pubescent below, often 

 not more than ^j in. long, sometimes J-l in. ifacem«s copious, but usually terminal 

 on the short branches, laxly 6-10-flowered ; bracts boat-shaped, deciduous ; pedicels 

 3-J in., permanently ascending. Calyx i-^ in., densely pubescent. Fod |-^ in. by 

 ^ in., finely downy; joints as broad as long; both sutures distinctly indented. 



Vak. macrocarpum ; pod larger quite ^ in. broad, the sutures less indented, the 

 upper one nearly or quite straight. — ^Assam and Khasia, Griffith, Hook. fil. <J- 

 Thomson. 



SmBaBiT. 8. Fleurolobium, DC. Erect undershrubs, with large leaves, 

 racemose flowers and indistinctly jointed pods dehiscing in a continuous line 

 along the ventral sutiu-e. — An aberrant group, which perhaps should be consi- 

 dered a distinct genus. 



48. D. g'yrans, DC. Prodr. ii. 326 ; branches scarcely woody, end leaflet 

 usually 4^6 times as long as broad, pod glabrescent or inconspicuously downy 

 Wall. Cat. 5725 ■,W.^A. Prodr. 227; Wight Ic. t. 294. Hedysarum gyrans, 

 lAnn. ; Jacq. Ic. t. 562 ; Boxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 351. Pseudarthria gyrans, BLassh. 

 PI. Jav. Bar. 391. Oodariocalyx gyrans, Hassk. in Walp. B^. ii. 891. 



All along the Hhhalayas from Hazara to Assam, ascending to 7000 ft. ; WssTEHif 

 PENmstnLA, Ceylon, Ava, Pegu, Tenasserim. — Disteib. Malay isles, Philippines. 



An undershrub, 3-4 ft. high, with subterete glabrous branches. Fetiote *-i'in.; 

 leaflets 1-3, subcoriaceous, oblong-hmceolate, 3-4 in. long, obtuse, with a little incon- 

 spicuous pubescence beneath; side ones, if present, very small, moving by jerks. 

 Bacemes axillary and terminal, the latter copiously panicled, at first short, the floweis 



