304 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Hedysarum, 
Very common on pasture ground and helps to form the 
most beautiful turf we have in India. 
Root woody, perennial. Stem and branches creeping, al- 
ternate, bifarious, slender, a little hairy, in some soils very 
much so, Leaves ternate. Leaflets obcordate, small. Stipu- 
les cordate, and partly attached to the petiole. Flowers \eat- 
opposed, from three to six peduncled, of a beautiful bright 
blue. Style swelled at the angle. Legumes from three to six- 
jointed, curved a little, the seed-bearing margin straight, the 
other notched, Cattle are very fond of it. 
It is probable that Burman’s plant, also his H. Stipulaceum. 
Burm. Flor, Ind. p. 168. t. 54, f. 2. and this plant, are the 
same, for in this species there are besides these stipules of the 
petioles, others within at the base of the branchlets, but the pe- 
duneles being numerous, and opposite to the eaves isa 
strong specific difference. 
The natives apply the fresh plant bruised to wounds that 
do not heal well. 
21. H. reptans. Roxb. 
Perennial, cespitose, hairy. Leafiets oval, Peduneles 
leaf-opposed, three or four-flowered. —— from four to 
six-jointed, 
Hedysarum trifoliatum. Burm. Zeyl. 118, t. 54. f. 1. 
This figure has already been quoted by various authors 
_ for a variety of Hedysarum triflorum, while the shape of the 
leaves, and the solitary, often more than one-flowered, pedun- 
cles in this plant clearly evince their being distinct species, 
besides this is a much more robust plant than triflorum. My 
plant is a native of the interior parts of Bengal, and from 
thence was introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta 
by Dr. W. Carey ; flowering time the rainy season. 
Root perennial, Stem scarcely any thing that can be so 
called but many perennial branches creeping, even to their 
very apices, perfectly flat on the earth and striking root at the 
joints. Branchlets alternate, all slender, we very Lay the 
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