■288 LEGUMISOS^. [Desmodium. 



clothed with white hairs; teeth long, lanceolate-cuspidate. Oorolla 

 twice the calyx. Tod sessile, not longer thdn the calyx ; joints 2, 

 glahrons. 

 Upper Gangetic Plain (Buchanan-Hamiltm, Bdgdworth). Distbib, 

 Chota Nagpur. 



16. D. gyrans, DC Frod ii, 326 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 227 ; Royle III. 191 ; 

 £rand. For. Fl. 146 ; F. B. I. ii, 174. Hedysaram gyrans, Linn.; Roxl. 

 Fl. Ind. Hi, 351.— The Telegraph plant. 



An erect undershnib, S-i ft. high. Branches scarcely woody, subterete, 

 finally glabrous. Leaves 1-3-foliolate ; petiole about | in. ; stipules 

 lanceolate-acuminate, scarious, deciduous ; leaflets very unequal, the 

 terminal one 2-3 in. long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at both ends, 

 glabrous above, glaucous and more or less silky beneath ; lateral much 

 smaller or obsolete ; stipels linear-setaceous. Racemes axillary and 

 terminal, often panicled, elongating after flowering ; bracts ovate-acu- 

 minate, concealing the flower-buds, soon deciduous ; pedicels ^ in., 

 downy. Calyx campanulate, glabrous ; teeth deltciid, shorter than the 

 tuba. Corolla i in., pink. Pod 1-1^ in., falcate, flit, dehiscing conti- 

 nuously along the slightly indented ventral suture, downy ; joints 6-10, 

 inconspicuous, a little broader th tn long. - "^ ^^ 



Dehr.i Dun and Siwalik range, in grissy places. Distrib. Outer 

 Himalaya from Hazara to Ass^m. up to 7,0D0 ft., extending through 

 W. and S. India to Ceylon and Burm^i ; also in the Malay Islands arid 

 the Philippines. Flowers during the rains. The leaflests of this plant, 

 especially the lateral ones, exhibit peculiar spontaneous jerky move- 

 ments when exposed to the sun, eve i when the air is quite still. 



WA-R.^ojlei, F. B.I. ii, 175. D. Eoylei, W. ^ A. Prod. 237. -Termi- 

 nal leaflet 3-4 in. long and twice as long as broad. Corolla rather 

 larger. Pod glabrous.— Dehra-Du i. Distbib. Bengal, Ass^m, Sik- 

 kim. 



17. D. gyroides, DC. Mem. Leg. 322; W. Sf A. Prod. 227 ; F.B. I. ii, 



175. Hedysarum gyroides, Roxh. Hort. Beag. 57. 



Similar in many respects to the last, but much taller, often reaching 10 ft. 

 in height. Terminal leaflet broader in proportion to its length. 

 Pod loi sely pubescent and with a dense coating of reddish-brown 

 tomentum. 



Saharanpur district (Herb. Saharanpur). Distbib. Outer Himalaya 

 from Garhwal to Khasia and Cachar, Coylon, t3urmi, Malay Penins. 

 and Islands. 



57. SOPHORA, Linn. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 218. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves odd-pinnate. Flowers showy, yellow- 

 -white or violet-pnrple, racemed or panicled. Calyx oblique, sabgib- 

 bous, broadly campanulate ; teeth deltoid, very shore. Oorolla 



