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pules very much acuminate, racemes axillary and 
terminal elongated lax, legumes somewhat erect with 
joints roundish tortuous hispid. 
Hedysarum erectum triphyllum, Sloane, I. t. 116. f. 9.— H. 
caulescens erectum triphyllum, floribus minimis, Browne , 301. — 
H. tortuosnm, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 1273. — II. B. et Kunth, 
VI. 521. — Desmodium tortuosum, Be Cand. Prod. II. 332. 
HAB. Common. 
FL. After the May and Autumnal rains. 
Herbaceous, suftrutescent at the base, erect, about two feet high, 
subdivided, angulose, striated, hispid. The terminal leaflet the 
largest, ovali-oblong, with the apex obtuse and terminating in 
a setaceous awn, hispid on both sides with minute hooked 
hairs, hirsute with straight hairs along the under surface of the 
nerves, ciliated : common petiole of the same length as the 
middle leaflet, striated, hispid with minutely hooked hairs : pe- 
tiolules short, hispid. Stipules an inch in length, ovato-falcate, 
very much attenuated at the apex, oblique, purpureo-striatu- 
lated, ciliated : stipels lineari-lanceolate, 3-nerved, ciliated. 
Racemes axillary, and terminal, very long, loose, many-flower- 
ed. Pedicels in twos, about an inch in length, capillary, his- 
pidulous with resinous amber-coloured globules intermixed, 
one-flowered. Bracteas at the base of the pedicels, lineari- 
lanceolate, ciliated, deciduous. Flowers small in proportion 
of a pale azure colour. Calyx hispid, and with resinous 
globules among the hairs ; segments lanceolate, attenuato-acu- 
minate, ciliated. Pod somewhat erect, elongated, twisted ; 
joints roundish, hispidulous with hooked hairs. 
The above description differs in no material respect from 
that of Swartz. Bertero was the first to point out that the 
hairs were hooked. It is a very common weed in the intervals 
of cane-pieces. 
3. Desmodium molle. Villous Desmodium. 
Stem erect roundish hirsute with hairs straight 
and hooked, leaves ovate attenuated villous beneath 
with the hairs appressed, racemes terminal and axil- 
lary, pedicels 3-nate, legumes when young tortuous 
hispid with hooked hairs, joints rhomboid, the ter- 
minal one suborbiculate larger at length glabrous. 
Hedysarum molle Vahl, Symb. II. p. 83. 
HAB. Common weed in the Cane pieces of Guanaboa, St 
John’s. 
FL. End of Year. 
Stem suffruticose, 2-3 feet high, sub-ramose, terete, hirsute 
