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largest from one to two feet long. Leaves petioled, ternate. 
_ Leaflets oval, entire, pretty smooth, and of a paler green in 
the centre. Pedunele solitary, opposite to the leaves and 
about their length, each supporting three, four, or five small 
white flowers on long slender pedicels, Legume of from three 
to six joints. 
22. H. quinquanguiatum. Roxb. 
Herbaceous, diffuse, five-sided, hispid. Leaves ternate; 
leaflets oval, downy. ‘Stipules cordate. Racemes numer- 
ous. Flowers paired, epee 4 sin ici notched 
on both margins. 
Compare with H. difewm? Willd. iii. 1180. 
This is a large, luxuriant, diffuse, perennial species,a native 
of strong rich moist pasture lands, such as the borders of 
rice fields, Flowering time the wet and cold seasons. 
Root woody, ramous. Stem no other than many ramous, 
hispid, five-sided, diffuse branches, two, three, or four feet 
long. Leaves ternate, petioled, nearly bifarious. Leaf- 
lets oval, emarginate or obtuse, downy, about one inch and 
a half long and one broad. Petio/es as long as the leaflets, 
channelled. Stipules of the petioles cordate, acute ; those of 
the leaflets lanceolate, large. Racemes terminal, and axilla- 
_ry, frequently compound, Bractes three-fold, two-flowered. — 
Flowers numerous, small, blue. Leyumes compressed, from 
five to seven-jointed, covered on both margins with hispid, 
hooked hairs, which make them adhere to every thing that 
touches them, — 
Cattle eat this species greedily and as it grows quickly,and 
with luxuriance, it might be cultivated to advantage. 
23. H. articulatum. Roxb. < 
- Annual, creeping ; branches five-sided. Leaves ternate ; 
leaflets ovate, Stipules ear-shaped, stem-clasping. Racemes 
- terminal and axillary, harsh with hooked hairs, opeaepe: 
pound, “Legume from four to five-jointed. = 
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