Dbsmodium.] LEaVMINOSM. 283 



leaves finally glabrous, or only slightly silky. Pod glabrascont.—N. 

 Oadh (E, Thompson). Distrib. W. and S. India to Ceylon, Ohitta- 

 gong, Mishmi, Upper and Lower Burma. 



2. D. pulchellum, Benth. ex Baker in F. B. I. ii, 162 ; Brand, For Fl. 

 145 ; Watt E. D. Hedysarum pulchellum, Linn. ; Pyoxb. Fl. Ind Hi, 361. 

 Picerma pulchellum. DC. ; W. Sf A. Prod. 230 ; Royle. III. 191. 



A shrub, 3 to 6 ft. high, with slender tsrete or ribbed finely grey-downy 

 branches. Leaves 3-foliolate ; petiole ~r to | in.; stipahs lanceolate-acu- 

 minate ; leaflets 3-6 in., oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, obtusa or sub- 

 acute, rounded at the base, sometimes with slightly repand or undulate 

 margins, coriaceous, glabrous above, finely downy benea'h, end-leaflet 

 much the largest. Floiuers small, arranged in clusters of 2-8 in erect 

 ^;erminal and axillary racemes, each cluster conceal 3d by a pair of 

 orbicular leaf-like bracts placed back to back; brads ^-^ in. acr -ss, 

 glabrous above, finely downy beneath. Calyx -^V in., hairy ; teeth ls,n- 

 ceolate, shorter than the tube. Corolla three times the calyx, white or 

 tinged with pink. Pod ^-f in., indented on b )th sutures, completely 

 hidden by the bracts, glabrous or downy ; joints usually 2, rather longer 

 than broad, reticulate-veined. 



Dehra Dun, Siwalik range, Eohilkhand, Oudh and Gorakhpur, chiefly in 

 sal forests. DiSTEiB. Throughout India to Oeylon, Burma and the 

 Malay Penins. Flowers during the rains. The pairs of bracts inclosing 

 the clusters of flowers are supposed to represent the lateral leaflets of 

 the ordinary foliage, the terminal leaflet becoming reduced to a mere 

 bristle at the apex of the raehis. 



3. D. laburnifoUum, DC. Prod, ii, 337 ; F. B. I. ii, 163. 



A shrub with slender terete glabrescent branches. Leaves 3-foliolate ; 

 petiole 1-U in., thickened, grooved; stipules minutQ, setaceous; leaflets 2-4 

 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute^ rigidly subcoriaceous, dark-green glabrous 

 and shining above, hairy on the nerves beneath. Racemes 3-6 in.; pedicels 

 ^ in., finally spreading. Calyx |- in., appressedly hairy ; teeth lanceolatOj 

 as long as the tube, lowest linear. Corolla i to § in., whitish. Pod 2-4 

 in. long ; joints 6-8, twice as long as broad, covered with minute hooked 

 spreading hairs. 



Dehra Dun, on the edges of streams. Distrib. Himalaya, from Kumaom 

 to Assam and Mishmi, up to 4,000 ft.,! Ceylon, Upper Burma, Malay 

 Islands, China and Japan. Flowers in July and August. 



4. D. laxiflorum, DO. in Ann. 8c. Nat. Ser. I, iv (1S25) , 100 ; F. B. 1. ii, 

 164. D. recurvatum, Grah. ; W. Sf A. 'Prod. 226. Hedysarum recurvatum, 

 Pioxh. Fl. Ind.. Hi, 358. H. diffusum, Poxb. I.e. 357 {hot of Willd.). 



An erect undershrub, 3-5ft. high, with obttisely angled branches densely 

 clothed at first with short hairs. Leaves 3- f oliolate; petiole 1-2 in.; stipules 

 lanceolate-acuminate; leaflets ^i-Q in., ovate or elliptic, acute, membranous 

 or subcoriaceous, glabrous above, clothed beneath with minute appres- 

 sed hairs ; stipels subulate. Racemes copious, axillary and terminal, 

 the latter often compound and up to 1 ft. or more long, slender, drooping; 



