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CALYCI FLORAE. 
with the shorter hairs hooked. Leaflets elliptic, obtuse, api- 
culated, villous beneath with the hairs appressed, ciliated. 
Stipules 2, broad-falciform, attenuate, coloured, ciliated: stipels 
linear. Petiole terete, compressed, striated, hirsute with 
hooked hairs. Racemes axillary and terminal. Common 
peduncle terete, hirsute with hooked hairs. Pedicels 2-3 
together, filiform. Bracteas small, linear. Flowers small. 
Calyx irregularly 5-fid, hairy. Standard and wings purple, 
keel green. Legume 6-jointed, spirally twisted, hispid with 
hooked hairs. 
According to De Candolle, the stem is somewhat glabrous. 
4. Desmodium ellipticum. Oval-leaved Desmodium. 
Stem suffruticose rooting towards the base after- 
wards ascending sub-glabrous, leaflets elliptic pu- 
berulous, stipules subfalcato-lanceolate, racemes ter- 
minal, pedicels solitary or 2-3 together, calyx 
ebracteolated, legumes straight hispid with minutely 
uncinate hairs. 
Hedysarum triphyllum fruticosum minus, Sloane, I. 185. t. 
118. f. 1 ? 
HAB. Shady situations in the mountains. Neighbourhood 
of St Catherine’s Peak. 
FL. May. 
Stem procumbent and rooting at the base, afterwards ascend- 
ing, about a foot in height, suffruticose, branched : branches 
subsimple, slightly compressed, minutely puberulous. Leaflets 
petiolulated, (the terminal one the largest), elliptic, puberulous: 
petiole sub-3-gonal, slightly channelled above, puberulous. 
Stipules lanceolato-falcate (the side next to the petiole straight 
the other curved), setaceo-attenuated at the apex, striated, 
ciliated: stipels setaceous. Racemes terminal, elongated (about 
8 inches in length), subsimple, many-flowered. Peduncle com- 
pressed striated, hispid with minutely uncinate hairs : pedicels 
1 or 2-3-4 together, about l an inch in length, filiform, hispi- 
dulous. Bracteas at the base of the pedicels, broad-ovate, acu- 
minate, ciliated, deciduous. Calyx ebracteolated, 2-lipped ; 
upper lip bifid, with the teeth minute and approximating ; under 
lip deeply 3- partite with the divisions lanceolate, spreading ; all 
of them partially hirsute on the back. Standard reflected, 
roundish, emarginate, purple marked with 2 oblong whitish spots 
near the base: wings auriculated on the upper edge near the base, 
and adhering to the keel at the under: keel in 2 pieces, cohering 
near the apex, of the same size as the wings. Stamens 9 and 1 : 
anthers roundish, yellow. Ovary pubescent: style longer than the 
stamens: stigma obtuse, sub-capitate. Legume 4-jointed, hispid. 
This plant agrees in some respects with the Hedysarum 
