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A rather tall, herbaceous, apparently erect, nearly glabrous species 

 of the section Heteroloma, division Strobilacea, Benth. in PI. Jungh. 

 Branches, &c, minutely scabrous-puberulent. Stipules persistent, 

 striate, rather rigid, with a dilated ovate or subcordate base, contracted 

 into an awn-pointed acumination, in all 4 lines long. Stipels seta- 

 ceous. Leaflets 3, oblong, or ovate-oblong, very obtuse, loosely veined, 

 and somewhat reticulated, chartaceo-membranaceous, li to 3 inches 

 long, glabrous and smooth above, slightly puberulent and a little paler 

 underneath. Racemes terminal, at least the principal one, strict and 

 virgate, at length elongated, the stronger ones in fruit becoming a foot 

 or more in length; the flowers small (2 or 3 lines long), rather 

 crowded. Bracts subulate from a broad base, striate like the stipules, 

 about 3 lines long, deciduous. Pedicels in pairs under each bract, 

 barely a line long, deflexed after anthesis, and remaining so in fruit. 

 Calyx-lobes triangular-subulate. Lament of 4 to 6 joints, the upper 

 suture slightly, the lower deeply sinuate, not stipitate; the joints 

 obliquely oval, or at length semioval, from 1 J to 2 lines long, scabrous- 

 puberulent. 



12. Desmodium (Heteroloma?) Gunnianum, Benth. ined. 



Hab. Near Sydney, New South Wales. (Also gathered by Mr. 

 Backhouse, in Eastern Australia, and by Mr. Gunn in Van Diemen's 

 Land.) 



The character of the species has not yet been published by Mr. 

 Bentham ; and our specimens, having no good fruit, are insufficient. 



13. Desmodium Scorpiurus, Desv. 

 Hab. Tahiti, Society Islands.— Probably introduced from America. 



14. Desmodium (Chalarium) tortuosum, DC. 



Hab. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands.— Chiefly a tropical Ame- 

 rican species. 



