Dbsmodium.I LUGUMINOSJE. 287 



A Blender suberect undershrub, 2-4 ft. high. Stems slightly angular,, 

 glahrescent , branches clothed with appressed white hairs. Leaves 

 1-foliolate ; 'petiole |-1 in. ; stipules 5 in., linear, sub persist ant ; leaflets 

 4-6 in. long, ovate-oblong, acute, rounded subcordate or truncate at 

 the base, membranous or subcoriaceous, glabrous above, grey-puberul- 

 ous beneath, main lateral nerves inconspicuous. Racemes copious, 

 .6-12 in. long, axillary and terminal ; rachis and pedicels puberulous ; 

 bracts minute, setaceoiis. Flowers in numerotis close-set fascicles. 

 Calyx very small, finely downy, teeth longer than the tube. Corolla 

 about ^ in., white or tinged with lilac. Fod ^-^ in., falcate, deeply 

 indented on lower suture ; joints 6-8, indehiscent, a little longer than 

 broad, clothed with minute hooked hairs. 



Abundant within the area. Distrib. Outer Himalaya, up to 5,000 f b. 

 and throughout India to Ceylon and Burma, Malay Penins. and Islands, 

 China, Philippines and Trop. Africa. Flowers during the rainy season. 

 The plant is used medicinally. 



Var. maculatum F.B.I. I.e. D. maculatum DC. Ic. — A dwarf undershrub, 

 1ft. or less in height. Leaflets small roundish-cordate.— Dehra Dun, 

 Eohilkhand, N. Oudh, Gorakhpur, Bundelkhand. Distrib. Outer 

 Himalaya, up to 4,000 ft., Upper Bengal. 



14. D. latifolium, DC. Prod, ii, 323 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 225 ; D. Sf G. 

 Bomb. Fl. 66; Brand. For. Fl. 145; F. B. I. ii, 16S ; Watt E.D. 

 Hedysarum latifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 850. 



An erect undershrub, 3-6 ft high ; branches terete, fulvous-tomentose. 

 Leaves 1-foliolate ; petiole about | in., densely hairy ; stipules small, 

 subulate from a somewhat cordate base ; leaflets 2-4 in. h)ng, broadly 

 ovate or suborbicular, acute or sixb-obtuse, mucronate, cordate or 

 truncate at the base, harshly pubescent above, brown-tomentose beneath, 

 main lateral nerves conspicuous beneath. Racemes copious, 4-8 in. long, 

 spike-like ; rachis hairy ; floiuers fascicled ; pedicels shorter 'than the 

 small hairy calyx ; bracts and bracteoLes minute, hairy. Calyx-teeth 

 lanceolate, as long as the tube. Corolla 3-4 times the calyx, purple. 

 Pod t-| in., deeply indented on lower suture, slightly so on upper ; 

 joints 4-6, as broad as long, clothed with minuta hooked hairs. 



Dehra Dun and Siwalik range, chiefly in sal forests, Eohilkhand. 

 Distrib. Outer Himalaya up to 4,000 ft. in Sikkim, and throughout 

 India tu Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Malay Islands, Philippines, Trop. 

 Africa and Madagascar. The fibre is used for making paper. 



15. D. 'brachystachyum, R. Grah» ex Benth. in Miq. PL Jungh. 223 ; 

 F. B. I. ii, 111. 



A trailing herb with slender stem about 1 ft. long, glabrous except nea^ 

 the top. Leaves \-iolio\sitQ ; petiole kin. ; leaflets ^-\^ in. long, round- 

 ish or broadly oblong, obtuse or emarginate, cordate at the_ base, sub- 

 coriaceous, glabrous ^-bove, reticulate-veined and slightly hairy beneath. 

 Flowers in short dense axillary and terminal subsessile racemes ; 

 pedicels ^-^ in.> reflexed ttt the tip as in Uraria. Calyx ^ in., densely 



