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HEDYSARUM BUPLEURIFOLIUM. HareEs- 
EAR-LEAVED HEDYSARUM. 
TEE EER IEE IIR ea ae a alee 
Clafs and Order. 
DiapELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Generic Charaéer. 
Cal. 5-fidus. Cor. carina tranfverfe obtufa, Lomentum articulis 
1-fpermis, compreffis, 
Specific Character and Synonyms, 
HEDYSARUM bapleurifolium ; foliis fimplicibus lanceolatis 
acutis, caule inermi, ftipulis feariofis. Sp. Pl. 1051. 
Willd. 3. p.1171. “Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 4. Pp. 339- Roxb. 
Corom. 2. p. 50. t. 194. 
ORNITHOPODIUM madarafpatanum, bupleurifolio. Pesiv. 
Gaz. 18. ¢. 11. f. 12. 
HEDYSARUM gramineum. Willd. Sp. Pl. 9. 11722 Retz, 
Ob/. 5. p. 26. Wendl. Hort. Herrenbus. 1. p. Fit. Be 
Wittpenow has expreffed a doubt whether the figures of 
Petiver and PLuxenet do not belong to gramineum rather 
than to dupleurifolium. The latter was probably intended for 
neither, but is too bad to be referred with certainty to any 
thing; but Periver’s is really good, for a mere outline, and 
undoubtedly reprefents our plant. Hepysanum gramineum in 
Hortus Herrenhufen, does not appear to be different; and 
Rerzius’s defcription of the fame accords both with Rox- 
BURGH'’S and our figure of dupleurifolium. We cannot but con- 
clude therefore that thefe plants in reality make but one fpecies, 
and that gramineum ought to be expunged from the fyftem. 
A {mall perennial woody fpecies. Native of the Eaft-Indies; 
where it grows, according to Roxsurcu, among long grafs in 
dry ground; flowering during the wet and cold feafons. With — 
us it requires the heat of the hak ftove, Propagated by feeds. 
