1897»] G. Kinp^ — Materials far a Flora of the Malayan Pemiisnla. Ml 
E, nliqnomm Bnrra, PL Tnd. 269, t. 55, fig*. 2, heterocarpon Linn 
Sp. PI. 747. H. pttrpureum Roxh. Hoi fc. Ben^. 57 ; PL Ii*d. Ill, 358* 
£r. retiiswn Don Prodr. 2i:L JL patctis Roxb, Fl. JncL III, 362. 
Var. typica ; leaves obovate-cuneate roundetl at apex ; pods faintly 
pnbermloos. 
In all the provinces, extremely common. Distrib. East Africa, 
India, Malaya^ Indo- China, China, Polynesia. 
Vkr. evalifoUa; leaves ovate-acute bOrSO rounded or trnncate j 
leaflets beneath sometimes Boftly silky ; pods pubescent with spreading 
hairs. D. ovalifoUum Wall. Cat. n. 57.TO. 
Pbnas-o; Wallich! Perak; Goping, Kunstler 1007! Distrlb. 
Sumatra {Fnrhf>s n. 1256 !) 
There are ae^-ornl more or less diatinefc forma of iJ, polycarpiim most of wli!ch 
art* readily recopninable, tliotigh all are coimectotl witli oach other and with h'^noal 
D, polycarpttm hy meftiis of many intermediates. The form here defined an y^R. 
ovalifoUa has no iatormedintes. howoTor, and so far aa matBrial hitherto colleered 
gooH^ might even be treated as fi aeparate speeieB. But ita habit ami its flowers are 
so ejtotitly those of D. poltfcarpitm that it soeuja better to consider the differences of 
leaves and fruit as merely varietal- 
§ ScOEPruaos Bth. Joiots of pod ijjdehiscent much longer than 
broad constricted along both sutui-ef*. 
10. Desmodium LAXtFLOiiUM DC. Prodr. IT, 335. An erect uiider- 
ahrub 2-5 feet high with woody slender obtusely angled sterns, at first 
densely clothed with short hairs at length glabrescent. Lmves 6-20 
in. long, 3-foliolate, petiole 1*5-2*5 in,, pubescent with adpre.*!Red hairs, 
grooved above ; leaflets membranoas or subcoriaceona, green and glabrous 
above, sparsely adpressed-lii^rsute beneath, terminal ovate-ncnfe bnse 
rounded or cuneate. 4-6 in, long l'5-3 in. across with petiolule 1 in. long, 
lateral nerves promiiiefit beneath 7-10 pair."? ; lateral leaflets similar 
but suialler l"5-;i"5 in. lonj^j l'-l'5 in. wide, base obliqaely rounded, 
petiolule very short; atipels subulate 2 in. long; stipnles ovate long- 
acuminate, '3 in. long. Injhiescence m axillary and terminal raceme.^ 
6-10 in. long, of 12-20 distant solitary flow era or few-fld. fascioles ; 
bracts and bracteoles minute linear or setnceons ; racbia pubemlous 
with adpresHcd luiirs as are the ultimntely patent pedicels *2-'25 in. 
long. Calyx "1 in., pubescent, tube eampanukte, teeth lanceolate as long 
as tube. VoroUa white, '2 in. long. Pot! 1-1*75 in. long, pendulous, 
•I in. wide, joints '3 in. long, indehisccnt, hardly constrict-ed at the 
Stttni'es and not ribbed, closely beset with sliort hooked hairs. Miq. 
Flor. Ind, Bat I, 251 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 164, D. bicalor 
Wall. Cat. 57l9. eJongaimn Wall. Cat. 5715. Z>. hptoslacfnjtm 
Wall. Cat. 5697 B. I>, atdeidum Wall, Oat. 5736. D. recnrvatum Grab, 
in Wall. Cat. 5717; W. ife A, Prodr. 226; Wight Ic. t, 374. J>. digu- 
