S82 



LIEG TJMINOSM. 



rDESMODlUM. 



Leaves 1-foliolate. 



Shrubs, pods i-S-jointed. 



Petioles with hroad wings. 



Erect: pods persistently hairy 

 throughout . • . . 



Diffuse ; pods glabrous, except 

 along the sutures . • 



Petioles not winged. 

 Leaflets glabrescent on upper 

 surface 



Leaflets scabrous on upper 

 surface ..... 



A trailing herb, pod 2-ioint9d 



Pods indistinctly jointed, not separating 

 into segments, but dehiscing all along 

 the ventral siiture ; leaves 3-iol., the 

 lateral leaflets small or wanting. 



Branches scarcely woody, pods slightly 

 downy ..... 



Branches distinctly woody, pods 

 tomentose 



11. D. triquetrum. 



12. D. pseudo-ti'iqueirum. 



13. D. gangeticum. 



14. D. latifolium. 



15. B. hrachystacJiyum. 



16. 



D. gyrans. 

 D. gyroides. 



1. D Cephalotes, Wall. Cat. 5721 ; W. ^' A. Prod. 224 ; F. B. I. ii, 162 ; 

 Watt E. D. Hedysarum umbellatum, Rocch. Fl. Ind. Hi, 360. 



A shrub, 4-5 ft. high, with 3-angled zigzag silky branches. Leaves 

 3-foliolate ; petiole 1-2 in., channelled above, silky ; sti;pules lanceolate, 

 scarious, bristle-pointed, persistent ; leaflets oblong or ob ovate-oblong, 

 usually acute, sub-coriaceous, green and glabrous above; grey-silky 

 and with many conspicuous parallel veins beneath ; the end-leaflet 3-6 in. 

 long, lateral smaller ; stipels subulate. Fiowers 20 or more, in dense 

 umbellate heads ; peduncles stout, silky, | the length of the petioles ; 

 pedicels unequal, clothed with white silky hairs at the apex ; hracts and 

 bracteoles caducous. Calyx ^-^ in., silky ; teeth lanceolate, as long as 

 the tube. Corolla twice the calyx, red. Pod less than 1 in., slightly 

 curved, indented on both sutures, silky ; joints 8-6, as broad as long. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, common in sal forests';, also in N. Oudh and 

 Sundelkhand. Disteib. Eastward to Chittagong, ascending to 4,000 

 ft., on the Outer Himalaya, and south to Ceylon : also in Burma. 

 Flowers during the rainy season. The pods are said to be poisonous 

 to cattle. Some of the specimens from N. Oudh have the leaflets 

 rrunded at the apex. 



