284 LEaUMINOS^. [Desmodium. 



rachis pubescent. Flowers several at eacli node ; pedicels -§-5 in., finally 

 spreading ; hracts minute, deciduous. Calyx small, densely hairy, teeth 

 longer than the tuhe. Standard white, wings and keel tinged with hlue. 

 Pod 1-1 i in., rarely longer, clothed with minute hooked hairs, slightly 

 constricted at the joints ; joints (5-10, flattened, 3-4 timeslas^ilong as 

 broad. 



Dehra Dun. Distrib. Himalaya, up to 6,000 ft., frcm Kangra to Assam» 

 Bengal, S. India, Burma -, also in Java, Borneo and the Philippines^ 

 Flowers in Aug. and Sept. 



5. D. concinnum, DC. in Ann. 8c, Nat. 8er, I, iv ( 1825 ), 101 ; Boyle 

 III. 194 ; Brand. For. Fl. 146 ; F. B. I. ii, 170. 



A tall undershrub, with slender tereta drooping branches, densely grey- 

 pubescent when young. Leaves 3-foliolate ;petiole f in. ; leaflets l§-3 in.^ 

 oblong, obtuse, sub coriaceous, green, glabrous above, the lower surface 

 conspicuously parallel- veined and clothed with appressed silky hairs. 

 Racemes copious, lax, axillary and terminal, usually simple ; hracts 

 large, ovate, closely imbricated, densely silky. Calysc-teeth lanceolate- 

 deltoid. Corolla g-| in., bluish or purple, tod |-1 in., shortly stalked, 

 upper suture not indented ; joints 4-6, indehiscent, minutely downy. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range. Distrib. Outer Himalaya from the 

 Punjab to the Khasia Hills, up to 7,000 ft. at Simla ; also in Burma. 



6. D. polycarpum, DC. Prod. ii,384; W. Sf A. Prod. 227 ; D. Sf G. 

 Bomb. Fl. 66 ; F. B. I. ii, 171 ; Watt E. D. Hedysarum purpureum, Boxb. 

 Fl. Ind. m, 558. H. patens, Boxh. I. c. 362, 



An erect or suberect undershrub. Branches slender, woody, angular,, 

 grey-tomentose upwards. Leaves 3-foliolate, 2-4! in. long ; petiole i'li 

 in. long ; stipules lanceolate ; leaflets I5-8 in., obovate-cuneate, rounded 

 or rarely acute at the apex, subcoriaceous, pale-green and cf ten clouded 

 above, clothed beneath with appressed grey hairs, main lateral nerveS' 

 indistinct ; stipels subulate. Flowers in dense axillary and terminal sub- 

 sessile racemes ; pedicels ^ in., ascending ; hracts 5 in., ovate-cuspidate, 

 ciliate. Cai-ya; y^ in., glabrous ; teeth acuminate, exceeding the tube. 

 Corolla \ in., pale bluish-purple. Pods erect, i-| in., slightly indented 

 on the ventral margin, densely ciliate when young, especially on the 

 edges ; joints 6-8, dehiscing along the lower suture. 



Common within the area. Distrib. Outer Himalaya, up to 5,000 ft., 

 C. & S. India to Ceylon, Burma, Malay Penins. and Islands ; also in 

 China, Japan, the Philippines and in Trop. Africa. Flowers during 

 the rains. 



Var. trichocaulon, F. B. I. ii, 172. D. trichoeaulon, DC— Stems densely 

 clothed throughout with spreading grey hairs, hracts larger.— Dehxa^ 

 Dun and Siwalik range. Distribution as of type, ascending to 7,000 ft. 

 on the Kumaon Himalaya. 



7. D. spirsae, DC. Prod, ii, 332 ; F. B, I. ii, 164. 



A osespitose erect annual, 6-24 in. high, with very slender glabrous sterna. 

 Leaves 3-foliolate, distinctly petioled ; leaflets -|-li in. long, ovate or 



