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Leaflets obovate-cuneate, silvery-pubescent beneath ; pedicels al- 
ways ultimately reflexed; prostrate 15. D. capitatum 
Leaflets obovate-oblong or obovate-elliptic ; pedicels erect or as- 
cending; stems erect 16. D. heterocarpum 
Racemes lax in both flower and fruit; leaflets 1 to 2.5 or 3 cm long, 
retuse; spreading or ascending herbs 17. D. buergeri 
Pods not stipitate, slightly sinuate on both sutures or straight on the 
upper; trailing or prostrate herbs with small leaves. 
Flowers 1 to 3 in the axils of the. leaves, with no common peduncle. 
Pedicels shorter than or hardly exceeding the petioles; leaflets 
obovate-cuneate, truncate or emarginate; branches glabres- 
cent 20. D. triflorum 
Pedicels manifestly exceeding the petioles; leaflets oblong, usually 
rounded at the apex; branches pubescent with spreading 
hairs 21. D. heterophyllum 
Flowers in terminal or axillary racemes; leaflets minute, 8 mm 
long or less 22. D. microphyllum 
Pods indistinctly jointed, dehiscing in a continuous line along the lower suture; 
erect undershrubs. 
Pods glabrous 23. D. gyrans 
Pods copiously pubescent 24. D. gyroides 
Leaves 1-foliolate. 
Petioles winged. 
Erect, 1 to 2 m high ; leaflet at least three times as long as the petiole ; pods 
appressed-hirsute 25. D. triquetrum 
Branches prostrate, spreading from the woody root; leaflet about twice as 
long as the petiole ; pods ciliate on the margins, otherwise glabrous. 
26. D. pseudotriquetrum 
Petioles not winged. 
Segments of the pod 1 to 1.5 cm long, many times longer than broad. 
7. D. ormocarpoides 
Segments of the pod short, not manifestly longer than broad. 
Leaflets ovate to oblong-ovate, narrowed to the acute or acuminate apex. ■ 
Petioles less than 5 mm long; racemes dense; pods pubescent. 
4 27. D. virgatum 
Petioles 1 to 2.5 cm long. 
Racemes elongated, lax, simple, or panicled; pods glabrescent. 
28. D. gangeticum 
Racemes short, simple; pods pubescent with spreading hairs. 
19. D. ovalifolium 
Leaflets orbicular to orbicular-ovate, apex broad. 
Leaflets not reflexed ; racemes elongated, equaling or exceeding the leaves. 
29. D. lasiocarpum 
Leaflets reflexed ; racemes much shorter than the leaves. 
18. D. retrofleoeum 
§ Phtllodium. 
1. Desmodium pulchellum (Linn.) Benth. FI. Hongk. (1861) 83; Baker in 
Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1876) 162; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 61; Vidal Rev. 
PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 107; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 65. 
Hedysarum pulchellum Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 747; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 581. 
Zornia pulchella Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 318. 
Dicerma pulchellum DC. Ann. Sci. Nat. I 4 (1825) 236, Prodr. 2 (1825) 339; 
Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 407, ed. 3, 2: 383. 
