Hedysarum. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. . 
four-cleft ; the upper division broad, acute and entire. Le- 
gume broad, thin, hairy, from four to six-jointed, and crenu- 
late on the lower edge. 
11. H. gangeticum, Willd, iii, 1175. 
Shrubby, oblique. Leaves ovate, acute, scabrous above, 
and villous underneath. Racemes terminal, very long and 
slender. Flowers paired. Carina and wings retlexed. Le- 
gume from five to six-jointed; straight on the upper margin. 
Sans. Sal purnee. 
Beng. Sal pan. 
Of this we have two varieties ; one with purple, the other 
with white flowers. They are natives of Coromandel, Bengal, 
and other parts of India, and in flower most part of the year. 
Seed ripens in the cold season. 
12. H. collinum. Roxb, 393. 
Shrubby, oblique. Leaves ovate-cordate, downy under- 
neath. Racemes ones ey long. Legume notched on 
the under side. 
A shrubby species found chief y amongst the Circar moun- 
tains, growing under the shade of trees, 
Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, or nearly sceidy entire, 
below downy, the longer ones are from five to six inches long, 
and from four to five broad. Petioles about an inch long, half 
round, downy. Stipules of the petioles cordate, acute ; those 
of the leaves subulate. Racemes axillary, and terminal, two, 
three, or four times longer than the leaves, filiform, erect, 
hairy, bearing many small, bright violet-coloured flowers, 
Legumes erect, compressed, from four to six-jointed, pretty 
- Allied to H. gangeticum, and latifolium ; from the former 
it differs in bearing axillary racemes and ovate cordate leaves. 
And from the latter in the leaves being pointed, not near so 
broad in proportion to their length, and not repand as in that 
