646 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. = Hedysarum. 
Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, or orbicular with a 
small point, hairy. Stipules of the petioles embracing the . 
branch, chaffy, half-lanceolate. Racemes leaf-opposed, late- 
ral, all axillary, many times longer than the leaves, few- 
flowered, Bractes three-fold, chafty, ciliate, two-flowered. 
Flowers remote, small, of a bluish purple. Legumes com- 
pressed, from two to four-jointed, hairy, 
5. H. gramineum, Willd. iii, 1172. 
Biennial, erect. Leaves simple, linear, smooth, Racemes 
terminal, long. 
H. gramineum, Retz. Obs. v. N. 70. 
Beng. Pan Nutta. 
A small perennial woody species, growing generally 
amongst long grass on dry ground. It flowers during the 
wet and cold seasons, ee 
Stem scarcely any. Branches many, sometimes nearly erect, 
sometimes diffuse, very slender, woody, from one to three feet 
long. Leaves alternate-petioled, linear-lanceolate, smooth, 
one and a half, or two inches long, and half an inch broad. 
Stipules of the petioles chaffy, semi-lanceolate. Racemes 
terminal, pretty long. Bractes three-fold, lanceolate, three- 
flowered, Flowers small, beautifully variegated with red 
and yellow. Calyx four-cleft ; upper division emarginate ; 
apex bearded. Legumes erect, sub-cylindric, composed of 
from three to five, almost round, pretty smooth articulations. 
6. H. buplenrifotium. Willd. iii. 1171. Corom, pl. ii, WM. 
194, 
Perennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves ree Sti- 
pules chaffy. Spikes imbricated with two-flowered bractes. 
Calyces four-leaved; the upper one a Legumes 
erect, beaked, obhijiialy jointed, | 
Difference of soil and situation produces such great changes 
in this plant as to make a transient examiner imagine he had 
met with two or more distinct species, In a good soil, and 
