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CALYCIFLO RTF,. 
shady places, especially at the base of rocks having a northern 
aspect. 
FL. Summer months, after rain. 
Stem prostrate, sending off roots opposite to each leaf, sub- 
terete, hispid with minute hooked hairs. Leaves distant, larger 
than in the greater number of tbe genus ; leaflets shortly petio- 
lulated, obovato-elliptic, wedge-shaped at the base, somewhat 
rounded and emarginate, with an awn at the apex (the lateral 
leaves somewhat unequilateral) nerved, subglabrous above 
(puberulous towards the margin), pale and velutino-pubescent 
beneath : petiole elongated, sub-3-gonal, hispidulous with the 
hairs minutely uncinate. Stipules ovate, acuminate, scariose. 
Peduncles axillary, subradical, longer than the leaves, about 
8 inches in length, compressed, striated, coloured, hispidu- 
lous, with minute uncinate hairs. Racemes about 6 inches 
in length, of many rather showy purple-crimson flowers : 
rachis angulose, striated, hispidulous with hooked hairs : 
pedicels in pairs, nearly an inch in length, filiform, angu- 
lose, puberulous with minute hairs, which are pellucido-capita- 
to-glandulose. Bracteas small, one to each pair of pedicels, 
ovate with the apex attenuated, concave internally, keeled on 
the back, puberulous, deciduous. Calyx externally puberulous, 
distinctly 2-lipped ; upper lip ventricose, slightly bifid, with 
the divisions setaceo-subulate ; under lip 3-partite, with the 
divisions deltoideo-ovate, attenuated, divaricating. Standard 
obovate, rounded and slightly emarginate, convex, crimson- 
purple, with 2 yellow spots near the base ; wings oblong, con- 
cave ; keel bifid at the apex. Stamen diadelphous ; filaments 
crimson : anthers globular, yellow. Ovary linear, compressed, 
puberulous : style somewhat hooked : stigma obliquely obtuse. 
• Legume pedicelled, apiculated with a persistent portion of the 
style, 2-jointed, hispidulous with minute pellucid hooked hairs; 
joints rather broad, semiorbiculate. 
7« Desmodium oblongifolium. Oblong-leafed Des- 
modium. 
Stem herbaceous diffuse terete villoso-hispid as 
also the petioles, stipules scariose ovate acuminate, 
leaflets ovato-oblong acuminate pubescenti-villous, 
peduncles subradical elongated loosely racemose at 
the apex, lower pedicels in pairs. — De Cand. 
Bertero, De Cand. Prod. 1 1. 332. 
HAB. Woods in the higher mountains, 
FL. ? 
This has evidently a great resemblance in character to the 
preceding species. 
