Alysicarpus.) xlVii. leGuminos^e. 605 
Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). Distrib. Indo-Malaya. Native name : 
Akar Siliguri. Use : A decoction of the roots for colic. 
The two species are usually made varieties of one (Prain, lx.), but are so 
different in general appearance when typical that I think, it advisable to 
follow Linne and others in keeping them separate. A. nummuXarifolius is 
prostrate, the branches often a foot long with purple flowers, A. vaginalis 
erect with nearly white flowers. 
39 . DESMODIUM, Desv. 
Herbs or shrubs. Leaves 1- or 3-foliate, stipellate. Flowers 
small, white, pink, blue or yellow in racemes. Calyx campanulate, 
upper two often sub-connate. Corolla exsert; standard broad; 
wings adherent to keel; upper stamen free from the other united 9. 
Ovary sessile or stalked; style incurved. Stigma minute capitate. 
Pod of several i-seeded joints compressed, the joints separating. 
Species 150, cosmopolitan. 
i. Sagotia : —Prostrate herbs with 1 to 3 axillary flowers; leaves trifoliate. 
Pedicels hardly exceeding petioles; leaflets 
obovate truncate ‘25 in. long . (1) D. triflorum 
Pedicels *5 in. long; leaflets oblong or obovate, 
round *5 in. long . . (2) D. heterophyllum 
Pedicels *5 in. long; leaflets obovate, round, 
1 -25 in. long, *75 in. wide . . (3) D. trifoliastrum 
ii. Phyllodium : —Shrubs. Bracts large 2-foliate, persistent; flowers in 
umbels. 
Plant downy; leaves glabrous above . . (4) D. pulchellum 
Plant velvety downy all over . . (5) D. vestitum 
iii. Dendrolobium : —Shrubs, bracts small deciduous; flowers small 
umbelled axillary. 
Leaflets smooth; pods glabrous . . . (6) D. umbellatum 
Leaflets rugose; pods strigose . . (7) D. rugosum 
iv. Eudesmodium : —Erect herbs or shrublets; leaves 1- to 3-foliate; 
flowers in racemes; bracts deciduous. 
Big shrubs; racemes elongate. 
Racemes often panicled ; corolla violet . (8) D. megaphyllum 
Racemes simple; flower white; pod joints 
narrowed both ends . . . (9) D. laburnifolium 
Slender wiry shrublets. 
Racemes lax; flowers pink; leaflets ovate 
acuminate, 4 to 6 in. long . 
Racemes lax; flowers scarlet; leaflets ovate 
blunt, 2 in. long 
Racemes dense. 
Leaflets silky beneath, white, obovate 
cuneate ..... 
Leaflets not silky beneath, obovate cuneate; 
flowers deep purple, rarely white. 
Leaflets elliptic or round, base round, 
white, silky beneath; flowers pale 
lavender ..... 
Leaves i-foliate; racemes terminal lax. 
Petioles not winged. 
Joints of pod narrowed at the ends, 
sticky; flowers white . 
(10) D. laxum 
(11) D. scalpe 
(12) D. capitatum 
(13} D. polycarpum 
(14) D. ovalifolium 
(15) D. ormoearpoides 
