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panded, for in their natural folded state the shape is semi- 
reniform, folded, inflated, nervous, searious, large bractes ; 
each concealing in its duplicature a small fascicle, or more, 
of peduncled, pure white, middle-sized flowers. Legume of 
one joint with one or two small reniform maculated seeds. 
15. H. bracteatum. Roxb. 
Shrubby, erect; /eaves narrow-cordate, Racemes termi- 
nal, compound, bifariously imbricated with alternate, reni- 
form, inflated, downy, bractes, Legume of one oval joint, 
two-seeded, 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal; from Dinajpoor 
Dr. W. Carey sent the seeds to the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta, where the plants thrive luxuriautly, and begin to blos- 
som during the cold season, 
Stems several, shrubby, erect, a few branches from their 
upper parts. Tender parts somewhat angular and soft, with 
very fine down, height of the four-year-old plants about three 
or four feet. Leaves bifarious, alternate, very short petiol- 
ed, narrow-cordate, entire, smooth above, about three inches 
long, by one, and one and a half broad. Stipules chaffy, en- 
siform, permanent. Racemes terminal, or from the exterior 
axills, drooping, compound, or even decompound. ‘Ramifi- 
cations thereof bifarious, alternate, very downy. Bractes 
folded, &c. as in H. strobiliferum, but in this species they 
are soft with much down. Eaterior bractes ensiform, ciliate, 
and placed like stipule one on each side of the insertion of 
the large folded bractes. Flowers minute; racemes within 
and hid by the folded bractes. except. for a few hours when 
in vigorous blossom the bractes open a little, they are small, 
rose-coloured, Legumes small, hid within the scariose bractes, 
of one oval joint, villous, one or two-seeded, two is most 
common. : 
one ct sete 
Sufrtcoue, cet twiggy. Leaflets eed. the lateral 
