Botanical Name - Desmodiuim

----- Desmodium, Desv. ; F. B. I. II - 161.

----- Shrubs or herbs. Leaves simple or 3-foliolate. Flowers small, red or white, in copious dense racemes. Calyx campanulate or turbinate ; teeth longer or shorter than the tube. Corolla exserted ; standard broad ; keel obtuse. Stamens usually diadelphous. Pod of several, 1-seeded, compressed, usually indehiscent joints.