Botanical Name - Desmodium pulchellum

----- D. pulchellum, Benth. ; F.B.I. II-162. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 222. Gamble's Ind. Timber's, 238.

----- An erect often gregarious shrub, 4-6 ft. high, with ribed grey-downy branches. Leaves 3-foliolate ; lateral leaflets 1 1/2-2 2 1/2 by 3/4-1 in., both elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, generally acute, rounded at the base, pubescent beneath. Flowers 1/5 - 1/3 in. long, in 2-6, flowered umbels, each umbel subtended by a pair of persistent, orbicular, foliaceous bracts about 1/2 in. diam., the umbels themselves in axillary and terminal racemes folded lehgthwise, 4-10 in. long. Pod 1/4 in. long, generally with 2 joints, constricted at both sutures.

----- Met with in most forests, generally in damp places. The wood is hard, yellowish-white, and being of small size can only be used for fuel.