348 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Hedysarum. 
oles winged. Racemes terminal, Legumes smooth, many- 
jointed. 
The figures of this plant, if intended for it, in the Herba- 
rium .Amboinense, Burman’s Flora Zeylaniea, and Flora © 
Indica, are all bad. It is a native of many parts of India, 
though not common, so far as I have been able to observe, in 
any ; flowering time the cold season. 
Stems perennial, many, diffuse, with many bifarious, 
spreading, coloured, somewhat three-sided, smooth, branches. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, bifarious, ovate-oblong, smooth on 
both sides and entire. Petioles winged. Stipules as in the 
genus, facemes terminal. Flowers numerous, three-fold, 
rose-coloured. Legumes of from four to eight joints, and 
notched on the under side. 
10. H. alatum. Roxb. 1896. 
Shrubby, erect, with many erect, from three to four-sided 
branches. Leaves simple, long, linear-cordate. Petioles 
winged. Racemes terminal. Legumes hairy, thin, from four 
to six-jointed ; lower margin crenulate. 
Hz. triquetrum., Burm. Ind. t. 25. f. 2. 
A native of Hindoostan. Flowering time the close of the 
rains, Is allied to H, triquetrum on account of the winged 
petioles only ; that is always procumbent, this straight and 
perfectly erect, and a much more beautiful plant. 
Trunk ‘short and straight. Branches many, erect, the 
tender shoots, three, or four-angled, from the insertion of the 
leaves downwards these angles are more villous than the other 
parts. Leaves simple, linear-cordate, entire, smooth on both 
sides, about four inches long. Petioles much shorter than 
the leaves, winged, which at the upper wing terminate in 
two recurved points. Racemes terminal, and from the exte- 
tior axills, erect, from six to twelve inches long. Flowers 
numerous, small, of a violet-colour. Bractes three-fold, two- 
flowered, but between these two flowers there is according 
to my observations a succession of abortive flowers. Calyx 
