Botanical Name - Desmodium triquetrum

----- D. triquetrum, DC. ; F.B.I. II-163. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 224.

----- An almost procumbent or prostrate shrub, 4-6 ft. long, with 3 cornered, glabrescent, branches. Leaves 1-foliolate. Leaflet 3-6 by 1-2 in., oblong-lanceolate, acute, sub-coriacious, somewhat scabrous above, hairy on the nerves beneath ; petiole 1/2-1 1/2 in. long, winged to an oblanceolate shape, 1/8-1/4 in. broad. Racemes 6-12 in. long, axillary and terminal. Pod 1-2 in long, 6-8 jointed, glabrous or pubescent, indented between the joints at the ventral sutures.

----- A pretty common whrub about Aurangabad, and doubless found elsewhere also. The reddish winged petioles and the triquetrous or 3-cornered branches are characteristic.