114 King" — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Pe^iinsula. [N^o. 1» 
grooved triangular glabreacent branches. Leaves 5-6 in. long, 1-f oliolate ; 
pcjLiole 1 in, lon^ 3 in. wido, with broud leufy reticulsite- veined wings ; 
blade 4-5 iii. long '75-1 in, wide, nai-fowly oblong-lanceolate wilb 
rouudtid or gubcordate base and acute apex, green and. ^lubioas on both 
Bnt-Faces, lateral nerves 15-20 pairs and secondary cross reticulate 
veiiatiou distinct on both aui'faces especially beneath ; stipules very 
large, '5-'T5 in. long "2 in. wkle^ subscarious, closely parallel- veined 
persistent, sfcipels small aduate to upper miugiu of jietiular wing. 
Iiijlorescence in narrow^ axillary and terminal racemes 6-10 in. long, of 
solitary or fascicled ilowera in the uxils of i20-40 simple scariona bracts 
resembling foliar stipules witk similar but much smallei' stipuleLs at 
theii' base; pedicels ascending '2— *3 in. long. Cahjx "15 in. long, veiy 
spai'soly hairy, bi'acteolate at base, bnicfceoles narrow scarions linear ; 
t«ibe campanulate, teeth unequal, upper deltoid lower linear. Corolla 
purple, -3 in, long. Pod 1-2 in. long, joints G-8, thin, 2 in. long, -25 in. 
wide, densely persistently Btrigose with subadpreBsed greyish-brown 
hairs. Bak. in Flor. Brit, Ind. II, 163 in part only, the s^Tionyras J}, 
ulatum, D. anrimlatuvt and jD. pseudo-friqmlrum excluded* Hedysarum 
triquetrum Litm. Sp. PL 746. H. alalum Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 348. 
Plerolotna tnguetmni Benfch. PL Jungh. 220 ; Miq. Flor. Ind, Bat. I, 
258 excluding tlie synouyms Desm odium pseudo4riiiuetrum and D. 
alahtm, 
Andamaws ; common in the interior of the lalands. Perak ; 
Ky^nstkr 10743 \ Seortechini! DiSTUm. India and Indo-China, 
This species is very eaai!y recoguisRd by Its hairy poda. Some ditficu!ty ia at 
times found in separating flowering specimens of thiB fmm flowering Bpeoimena of 
the neit species ; the two are however quite diatinct. Equally distinct aro two other 
speoioa, D. alatiim and D. pseudo-triquefriim,, qaite Justly difforentiafced by De Can. 
dolle but merged in D. triquetmni by Miquel, who has been followed ia the Flora of 
Brit Ind. 
15. Desmodium AtJiticuLATUM DC. Prodr. 11, 326. A littoral shrub 
with grooved triangular glabi*esueiit bi-anehes. Leaves 4-5 in. long, 
1-foliolate, petiole 1 in. long *3 in. wide, with bimd leafy reticulate- Yeincd 
wings ; blade 3-4 in. long 1-1'5 in. wide, oblong or ovate-acute with 
truncate or cordate base and acute apex, green and glabrous on both 
surfaces, lat-eral nerves 10-12 pairs and secondary cross reticulate 
venation distinct on both surfaces, especially beneath ; stipules large *5 
in. long *2 in, wide» subscarions, closely parallel -veined, persistent, stipels 
adnate to tip oE petiolar wing. Jnjlt^rescence in axillary and terniiaal 
racemes 5-8 in. long, of solitary or fascicled flowers in the axils of 12-20 
simple acarious bracts ; pedicels ascending, *3 in. long. Calyx '15 
in. long, spat'sely hairy, base bracteolate ; tube campannlate shorter 
than the uueqaal teeth. Corolla purple, 3 in. loug. Pod 1-2 in. long} 
