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adscendens of Swartz, but. differs from it in several important 
particulars. 
5. Desmodium trigonum. Large climbing Desmo- 
dium. 
Stem herbaceous scandent triquetrous hairy, leaf- 
lets ovate or ovato-lanceolate apiculated hairy, racemes 
terminal very long, legumes tortuous hispid inflected. 
Hedysarum triphyllum maximum, Broivne, 301. — H. 
adhserens, Vahl, Symb. II. 82. — H. trigonum, Swartz, FI. Ind. 
Occ. 12G7. 
HAB. Common in the lower mountains of St Andrew’s and 
Port Royal. 
FL. January — April. 
Stem climbing to a considerable height, 3-gonal with the 
angles blunt, and furnished with stiff-hooked hairs directed 
backwards. Leaves remote ; leaflets ovato-lanceolate (the 
terminal one the largest) somewhat acuminate, apiculated, 
nerved, reticulato-venose, rugose or somewhat bullate, ciliated, 
and on the upper side, in addition to the long straight hairs, 
furnished along the nerves with adherent hooked hairs : petiole 
3-quetrous, grooved above. Peduncle of the raceme long, 
subterete, angulose, with the angles armed with hooked hairs. 
Flowers purple, rather large and showy, geminate. JBracteas 
length of the pedicels, ovato-lanceolate, concave, ciliated, mem- 
branaceous, deciduous. Legumes linear, acuminate, tortuous, 
hispid with hooked hairs. 
This species is readily recognised from every other in the 
Island, being the largest and most showy of the genus of which 
we can boast. By means of the hooked hairs, with which it is 
plentifully furnished, the branches and leaves as well as the 
legumes readily adhere to the dress of passengers. I cannot 
imagine what Swartz meant by describing the apex of the leaf 
as uncinate. 
6. Desmodium radicans. Looting Desmodium. 
Stem suffruticose prostrate rooting creeping, leaf- 
lets obovato-elliptic, acute at the base, rounded at the 
apex, subglabrous above, hoary and velutino-pubescent 
beneath, peduncles subradical elongated erect, pedi- 
cels in pairs, joints of the legume 2 semi-orbiculate 
hispidulo-adherent. 
Hedysarum axillare, Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 1274. 
HAB. Common in St Andrew's and Port-Royal mountains in 
