Desmodium.~\ 
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Prostrate, with flowers most or all without peduncles 
in the axils of the leaves 7. D. triflorum. 
Erect shrub, with flowers in short peduncled umbels . 8. D. umbellatum. 
1. D. triquetrum, DC. Prod. ii. 326. An erect much-branched 
shrubby perennial. Branches acutely triquetrous, thinly pilose. 
Leaves simple, firm, oblong-lanceolate, acute, 4-6 in. long, finely hairy 
on the ribs below ; stipules large, lanceolate, scariose ; petioles \-l in. 
long, broadly winged. Bacemes |-I ft. long, peduncled, axillary and 
terminal ; pedicels •§— i in. long, spreading ; bracts minute. Calyx 
% in. long ; upper teeth deltoid, lower linear. Corolla red, twice the 
length of the calyx. Pod 1-2 in. long, pilose or glabrescent ; joints 
6-8, ; square ; both sutures nearly straight. 1). auriculatum, pseudo- 
triquetrum and alatum, DC. loc. cit. Pteroloma triquetrum, Benth. 
in PI. Jungh. 220. 
Seychelles ; common in Mahe and the other islands, Wright ! Horne ! Mauri- 
tius, naturalised at Les Pailles, between Port Louis and Moka. Through Tropical 
Asia, not African. 
2. D. Scalpe, DC. Prod. ii. 334. A shrubby erect perennial, with 
slender sulcate finely downy stems. Leaves long-petioled ; leaflets 3, 
thin, firm, 2-4 in. long, acute, rather repand; central one round or 
ovate, acute ; stipules large, scariose, lanceolate. Blowers in long very 
lax mostly terminal racemes ; pedicels erecto-patent, very slender, 
J-l in. long. Calyx in. long, downy ; teeth lanceolate, as long as 
the tube. Corolla deep red, \ in. long. Pod distinctly stalked ; 
joints 3-4, pilose, £— §■ in. long, semicircular, with the upper suture 
nearly straight and lower deeply indented. D. abyssinicum and repan- 
dum, DC. D. strangulatum, Wight, Ic. t. 985. 
Mauritius, in the woods of the Pouce range. Through Tropical Asia and Africa. 
Also Natal and Kafiraria. 
* D. cajanifolium, DC. Prod. ii. 331 ( Hedysarum , H.B.K. Nov. 
Gen. t 598), a native of Tropical America, introduced in Ceylon, is 
sent by Mr. Horne from the Seychelles from hills near Port Victory in 
Mahe. It is a tall pilose erect perennial, with 3 oblong obtuse sub- 
coriaceous leaflets, hairy on both sides, an ample terminal panicle with 
long rather dense racemose branches, slender ascending pedicels i in. 
long, a minute deeply-cut calyx, a bright lilac corolla % in. long, and 
a short-stalked glabrescent pod under an inch long, slightly indented at 
the upper, deeply at the lower suture, of 3-4 very oblique joints that 
easily fall away. 
3. D. incanum. DC. Prod. ii. 332. A shrubby erect branched 
perennial, 2-3 ft. high, with thinly pilose branches. Stipules lanceolate ; 
petioles short, pilose, channelled ; leaflets oblong, obtuse, or subacute, 
3-4 in. long, glaucous and finely pilose all over beneath. Bacemes 
ample, peduncled, moderately close, terminal and lateral; pedicels in. 
