Hedysarum, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 353 
A native of naked indies pasture ass Jileswes during 
the wet and cold seasons. 
Root simple, long, slender, biennial or triennial, Sum 
none. Branches numerous, simple, spreading close over the 
ground to a great extent, somewhat from eight to ten feet 
each way, slender, smooth, three-sided. Leaves remote, al- 
ternate, petioled, orbicular, emarginate, smooth, often cloud- 
ed, those near the root simple, further they have often a mi- 
nute, lanceolate leaflet or two, (called bractes in the Mantis- 
sa,) asin H. gyrans, Stipules of the petioles semi-lanceo- 
late, chaffy ; those of theleaves, or leaflets minute. Racemes 
axillary, longer than the leaves, few-flowered. Bractes con- 
cave, few-flowered. Legumes boat-shaped, pointed, esiaed 
always one-jointed and one-seeded. 
SECT. II. Leaves conjugate. 
19. H. diphyllum, Willd. iii. 1178. 
- Herbaceous, cespitose. Leaves binate; leaflets lanceolate. 
Stipules lanceolar. 
Nelam mari. Rheed. Mal. ix. t. 82. ; 
The leaflets in Burman’s figure are much too broad and 
short for the sort on the continent of India, and I think Will- 
denow must be right in considering it a distinct species. Our 
plant is common on poor sandy pasture land, in many parts 
of India, 
een SECT. III. Leaves ternate. 
20. H, triflorum. Willd. iii. 1202. 
_ Perennial, creeping. _ Leaves ternate. Leaflets obcordate. 
Flowers peduncled, from three to six, opposite to the leaves. 
Legumes falcate, from four to five-jointed, notched on the 
under side, 
Beng. Kodalia. bisa 
H. trifoliatum repens, &c. Burm. Zeyh vi, nh ds Re ouct 
Teling. Moonoodda-Mondoo, 
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