a northern part of Hindoostan, where it was spontaneous* 

 The leaves in some samples, lately received from the Cal- 

 cutta Garden by Sir Joseph Banks, have a less cordate or 

 indented base than those of others in Mr. Lambert's Her- 

 barium, or indeed than in the base of those in Dr. Rox- 

 burgh's figure. Here and there, though rarely, we find a 

 pair of exactly opposite ones, with the stipules connate. 

 Plants of it have formerly flowered with Mr. Lambert, 

 which had been produced from seed out of the Calcutta 

 Garden. The species is not recorded in the Hortus Kew- 

 ensis. 



The following is Dr. Roxburgh's description. " Stem 

 " short, ligneous, and pretty smooth. Branches oblique, 

 " almost horizontal or reclinate, the tender parts villous. 

 " Leaves simple, alternate, bifarious, short-petioled, round- 

 " ishly cordate, somewhat repand, downy underneath, 

 " above scabrous, about three or four inches long, and 



nearly of the same breadth. Stipules of the petioles 



semicordate cuspidate, of the leaves subulate. Racemes 

 " axillary and terminal, horizontal, many times longer 



than the leaves, clothed with small hooked bristles. 



Flowers threefold, the middle one late, they are all small 

 " and of a bright purple colour. Bractes threefold, trian- 

 " gular, acute. Legumes flat, clothed with hooked bristles, 

 " four-five-jointed, and more deeply notched at the under 

 " margin." 





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