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branous or small, deciduous or persistent; bractlets variable, some- 
times membranous, sometimes minute or 0! (A// tropical and sub- 
tropical regions’). 
155? Pseudarthria Wicut & Arwn.’—Flowers of Desmodium. 
Legume pland-compressed ; sutures straight or slightly and unevenly 
sinuate between seeds, continuous within, 2-valved; valves thin, 
transversely veined, not jointed.'—Herbs, villous or viscid; leaves 
pinnate 3-foliolate ; inflorescence and other characters of Desmodium 
(Tropical Asia, south-eastern regions and islands of Africa’). 
156? Pycnospora R. Br.'—Flowers of Desmodium. Legume’ 
oblong turgid, continuous within, o-seeded, 2-valved; valves thin, 
marked by transverse veins, not jointed. Seeds reniform funiculate, 
thinly arillate——A slender undershrub ;* leaves pinnate 3-foliolate ; 
stipules 2, membranous striated ; inflorescence terminal, co-flowered 
(of Desmodium); bracts membranous caducous (Zropical Asia and 
Australia’). 
157. Uraria Desvx."—Flowers of Desmodium ; germen 2—0 -ovu- 
late. 
Legume 2-2 -seeded, constricted between seeds; segments 
rather turgid, compressed, folded back one upon the other, inclosed 
’ BenTHam divides this genus into 12 sec- 
tions, as follows :—1. Dendrolobiwm ; 2. Phyl- 
lodium ; 3. Dicerma; 4. Pteroloma; 5. Cate- 
naria ; 6. Scorpiurus(BENTH.); 7. Dollinera ; 
8. Heteroloma (BENTH.); 9. Cralarium; 10. 
Nicolsonia ; 11. Sagotia; 12. Pleurolobium(DC.). 
2 Species about 120. Jacq., Hort. Schenbr., 
t. 297, 298; Ic. Rar., t. 565.—Wat., Pl. As. 
Rar., t. 94, 157.—Wieut, Icon., t. 209, 270- 
272, 291-294, 298, 373, 374, 406, 407, 409, 418, 
419, 984, 985.—H. B. K., Nov. Gen. et Spec., 
vi, t. 597-599.—LaBitt., Sert. Austr.-Caled., 
t. 71, 72.—Brnru., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 
94, t. 26, 27; in Pl. Jungh., i. 221; Fl. Austral., 
ii. 229.—Hooxr. & Arn., Beech. Voy., Bot., t. 
87, 96.—Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., Suppl., 305.— 
Tuw., Enum. Pl. Zeyl., 411.—Harv. & Sonn., 
Fl. Cap.,, ii. 228.—Baxer, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. 
Afr., ii. 159.— Bot. Reg., t. 355, 815, 967.— 
Bot. Mag., t. 2867, 2960, 3553, 5452.—Watp., 
Rep., i. 736; ii, 890; v.525; Ann, i. 249; ii, 
413 ; iv. 537. 
3 Prodr., i. 209.—EnDL., Gen., n. 6689.— 
B. H., Gen., 521, n. 172.—Anarthrosyne E. 
Mzy., Comm. Pl. Afric. Austr., 124.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 6618. 
4 This genus is not otherwise distinguished 
from Desmodium, of which it ought, perhaps, 
rather to be considered a section, 
5 Species 3 or 4. WiaHt, Jcon., t. 286.— 
Ku, in Pet. Mossamb., Bot.,t. 7 (Anarthro- 
syne).—Harv. & Sonp., Fl. Cap., ii. 299.— 
Baxer, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii, 167. 
§ Ap. Wiaut & ARNn., Prodr., i. 197.—ENDL., 
Gen., n. 6529.—B. H., Gen., 521, n. 173. 
7 Small, almost as in the small-fruited Cro- 
talarie; only the transverse veins indicate an 
affinity with Desmodium, whence the place of 
this genus remains very doubtful and artificial. 
3 Habit entirely that of the 3-foliolate species 
of Desmodium. 
9 Species 1. P. hedysaroides R. Br., loc. 
cit—Bentu., Fl, Austral., ii. 236.—P. nervosa 
Wieut & Arn.— Crotalaria? nervosa GRan., in 
Cat. Wall., n. 5428 B.— Indigofera desmodioides 
Bernu., Pl. Ind. Hohen., n. 303. 
10 Journ. Bot., i. 122, t.5.—DC., Prodr., ii. 
324.—ENDL., Gen., n. 6610.—B. H., Gen., 521, 
on. 174.—Doodia Roxs., Hort. Cale., 99; Fl. 
Ind., iii. 365 (nec R. Bz.). 
