Hedysarum, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 345 
many parts of Southern Asia. In the neighbourhood of Can- 
dahar and Mirut and the bank of the Chilchuk,manna is said 
to be procured from it, This substance exudes from the 
plant after spring rains and is gathered by merely shaking it 
off. See Fothergill, p. 257. In the Dooab, where it is com- 
mon, it is for the most parts herbaceous and eaten down to 
the ground by cattle, _ 
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2. H. moniliferum, Willd. 1173. 
Perennial, cespitose. Leaves round, cordate. Heads: ter- 
minal, Bractes three-flowered, Legume necklace-shapedf with 
round joints. 
Hedysarum moniliferum. Burm. Ind. t. 52. f. 3, pretty 
good, 
Teling. Amera. 
Common on pastyre land over most parts of India. Flow- 
ers in the rains and cold season, 
3. H. vaginale. Willd, iii. 1176. 
Perennial, cespitose. Leaves from oval to linear, oblong 
with cordate base, rather obtuse, smooth. Racemes leaf-op- 
posed. Bractes three-fold, two-flowered, Legume sub-cy- 
lindric, from four to six.jointed. 
Genista articulata, &c. Burm. Zeyl, t. 49, f. 1, pretty 
good, 
Common on pasture land in most parts of India. Flowers 
in therainy and cold seasons. 
i. H. cluakens, Roxb. 
Perennial, diffuse, hairy in every part. Leaves simple, 
roundish, Racemes leaf-opposed, flowers in pairs, remote, 
Legumes from two to four-jointed, both margins notched, 
_A small perennial; a native of dry, sandy pasture lands, 
though by no means common, 
Stem there is nothing that can be so called. Bractes 
many, diffuse, long, round, slender, dichotqropon yy hair 
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