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obtuse racemes imbricated and resembling a fox’s tail: calyx 
hairy : pedicels incurved : flowers middle-sized, rose-colour, 
Khasia mountains, flowering nearly all the year. 
(5) U. crinira. (Desv. ) 
Ident. Desv. Jour. Bot. III. p. 122.—Dee. prod. I. p. 324. 
Syn. Doodia crinata, Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 869.—Hedysarum 
crinitum, Linn. 
Engrav. Desv. 1. ¢. t. 5. f. 19.—Burm. Ind. t. 56. 
Srrc. Cuar. Stem fruticose, erect ; leaves unequally pinnated } 
leaflets 2-3 pair, oblong: raceme elongated: pedicels hispid, res 
eurved: calyx-segments hairy, reflexed: legumes polished: flowers 
middle-sized, rose-coloured. 
Khasia mountains, flowering nearly all the year. 
GENUS XXXI. DESMODIUM. 
Diadelphia Deeandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From Desmos, a band, in reference to the connection of 
the stamens. 
Gey. Cuan. Herbs, shrubs or small trees: leaves pinnately 
trifoliolate or simple by abortion: fiowers usually racemose, or um- 
belled or on simple peduncles, axillary or terminal: calyx cleft to 
the middle into 2 lips, upper lip 2-cleft, lower 3-partite : corolla 
papilionaceous; vexillum roundish: kee] obtuse: style filiform : 
stigma capitate: legume compressed, several-jointed ; joints sépa+ 
rating when ripe, 1-seeded. 
(1) D. umsettatum. (Dec.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. 1. p. 224.—Dec. prod. IT. p. 825. 
Syn. Hedysarum umbellatum, Linn.—H. arboreum, Roxb. fe 
Ind. III. p. 361. 
Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. t. 51.—-Rumph. Amb. IV. t. 52: 
Srrc. Cuar. Small tree: young shoots pubescent, somewhat 
angled: leaves trifoliolate: leaflets oval, obtuse, whitish-pubescent 
beneath, terminal one the largest: peduncles axillary, much shorter 
than the petiole: legumes 3-4-jointed: flowers small, greenish- 
white, somewhat umbellate. 
Near Belgaum, on the banks of streams, flowering in April and 
May. 
(2) D. concestum. ( Wall.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 224. 
Syn. Hedysarum umbellatum, Roxb. fl. Ind, IIL. p. 360. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon, I. t. 209, 
