Fiemingia. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 330 
the older woody parts thereof round, the tender ones some- 
what three-sided, and clothed with villous pubescence, their 
general length about two feet anda half, Leaves ternate as 
in the other species, Leaflets lanceolate, the pair obliquely 
so, acute, entire, three-nerved, slightly villous underneath ; 
three or four inches long, and less than one broad. Petioles 
three-sided ; angles sharp and ciliate. Stipules opposite, lan- 
ceolate, cuspidate, half the length of the petioles, villous, ca- 
ducous, Racemes axillary, solitary, villous, becoming rather 
longer than the petioles by the time the flowershave ex panded, 
Bractes solitary , one-flowered, lanceolate, clothed with silky 
hairs, caducous, lower small,a mixture of pale yellow and 
purple, Calya: hairy, five-parted, clothed with long, fine, 
white hairs ; segments acute, the lower one twice the length 
of the other four. Legume oval, two-seeded, Seeds round, 
dark brown, spotted with gray, 
3. F. nana, Roxb. 
Suffruticose, with a very short, ligneous stem, and few 
short branches. Leaves ternate. Leaflets sub-obovate ; pe- 
tiole winged. Racemes sibs crowded, Legume covered 
with red clammy glands. . 
Hind, Supta Cusunt, 
This beautiful, small, sub-herbaceous species was a found i 
Col. Hardwicke in various parts in the vicinity of the Gan. 
ges toward Hurdwar, and by him introduced into this gar- 
den, where it blossoms about the beginning of the hot season. 
Stem scarcely any, a short, perennial, ligneous stump, of 
scarcely an inch in length, is all that appears above ground, 
from which issue a few short, sub-herbaceous branches, the 
_ whole height, leaves included, not above six or eight inches. 
Leaves ternate, long-petioled, Leaflets, the pair obliquely 
oblong ; the terminal one obovate; all are three-nerved and 
a little downy, from one to three inches long. Petioles 
as see or longer than the leaflets, rath i anes ensi- 
ak. 
