356 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Hedysarum. 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal. The flowering time 
the close of the rains; the seeds ripen during the cold season, 
soon after which the whole plant perishes. 
_ Stem none, but several, stout, sub-ligneous branches from 
three to six feet long spreading close on the ground, and strik- 
ing root. Branchleis alternate, bifarious, five-sided, villous, 
scabrous with small hooked hairs. Leaves alternate, bifari- 
ous, ternate. Leaflets ovate, obtuse, villous, and somewhat 
scabrous on both sides; from one to three inches long, and 
broad in proportion. Stipules of the petioles ear-shaped, 
stem-clasping ; those of the leaflets lanceolate. Racemes axil- 
lary and terminal, very often so compound as to form large, 
bifarious panicles, Peduncles and pedicels angular, and — 
armed with harsh hooked hairs. Bractes of the ramifications 
Jike the stipules of the flowers, or extreme divisions, ovate, 
ciliate, two or three-flowered. Flowers minute, very numer- 
ous, slender, pedicelled, pink coloured. Legumes linear, a 
little curved, from four to six-jointed, notched on the under 
side, armed with a few hooked hairs, which makes them ad-- 
here readily to any thing that touches them. 
Cattle are fond of the green plant, and as it is one of the 
most luxuriant of the genus, I have met with, it might be ad- 
vantageously cultivated for fodder in India, 
It comes very near my Hedysarum quinquangulatum, No. 
398; but differs specifically in the stipules and ape of the 
ages ee of their curation: 
94, H. iGescduin. Burm. Ind. 167. “th B. H. 
Perennial, creeping, hairy. Leaflets roundish, downy. 
Stipules subulate. Racemes terminal. Flowers three-fold. 
Legumes from four to five-jointed, notched on the sectors 
and covered with hooked hairs. “ 
A creeping, perennial species, arowing ‘ate: the cover of 
bushes, in a dry, ioiieaes wil. iM flowers during the wet and 
cold seasons, ‘neceae 
Root woody. Stem: or pe acie several, 
