Hedysarum, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 347 
shaded by large trees, it grows with an erect, woody stem, to 
be three or four feet bigh, with many long straggling 
branches, resting on the ground; in an exposed poor soil, it 
is a small diffuse, seemingly annual. In all, the succulent 
parts are hairy, The flowering time the wet and cold sea- 
sons. 
Leaves remote, alternate, horizontal, petioled, lanceolate, 
hairy, size various. Petioles three-sided. Stipules of the peti- 
oles chaffy, embracing much of the branch of the leat, small 
and subulate. Spikes terminal, and leaf-opposed, many- 
flowered, imbricated with chaffy, hairy, ciliate, ovate, point- 
ed, two-flowered bractes. # lowers of a bright red. Calyx 
four-leaved ; upper leaf emarginate, hairy, the length of the 
corol, Legumes erect, sharp pointed, of from three to five 
obliquely oval rugose joints. 
7. H. styracifolium, Willd. iii. 1174. 
Shrubby, erect, ramous, every part except the upper sur- 
face of the leaves hairy. Leaves oblong, emarginate. Ra- 
cemes terminal. Bractes solitary, cordate, two-flowered. 
Calyx four-leaved, all entire. Legumes neh thin, of five 
rugose joints, notched on both sides, 
A native of Coromandel ; flowering time the close of the 
rains. Seed-ripe in January. : i Pdi 
8. H. glumaceum. Willd, iii. 1172. 
Biennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves lanceolate, clouded. Ra- 
cemes terminal , becoming leaf-opposed. Bractes two-flow- 
ered. Calyx four-leaved, ciliate, the upper one bidentate. 
Legume ot from three to four oblique, rugose joints. 
A native of the coast of Coromandel ; in the Botanic garden 
at Calcutta it blossoms in the —_ and cold season, 
9. H. triquetrum, Willd. iii. 1176. 
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