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358 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Hedysarum. 
short, hooked bristles by which they adhere readily and firm- 
ly to every thing that touches them. 
26. H. recurvatum, Roxb. 
Shrubby with recurved branches. Leaves bifarious. 
Leaflets ovate. Racemes axillary and terminal, drooping long 
before the flowers expand, Bractes many-flowered. Le- 
gumes linear, compressed, rantous, bristly, from six to.seven- 
jointed. 
A native of the interior parts of India, and introduced into 
the Botanic garden by Captain Hardwicke from Cawnpore. 
It flowers during the rains, and ripens its seed in the cool 
season, 
Trunk (in our young plant) short but ligneous, with the 
branches bending to one side and their extremities recurved, 
the under parts clothed with short depressed hairs. Leaves bi- 
farious, ternate, Leaflets ovate and oval, entire, rather acute, 
somewhat pubescent. Petioles channelled. Stipules of the pe- 
tioles chaffy, taper-pointed, large ; those of the leaflets subu- 
late. Racemes axillary and terminal, before the flowers ex- 
pand they point directly to the earth, afterwards they be- 
come very long, from one to twofeet. Bractes, the exterior 
one single, broad-lanceolate, embracing several smaller with 
a succession of small violet-coloured flowers. Calyx four- 
cleft ; the upper division broader but entire. Banner nearly 
white. Wings and apex of the keel blue. Legumes long, 
slender, compressed, clothed with hamous bristles by which 
they readily adhere to any thing they touch, both margins. 
nearly even, Joints long, six or eight. 
27. H. purpureum, Roxb, 
Perennial, diffuse ; leaflets oval, clouded. Racemes ter- 
minal, before ex pansion ipsa Legumes dix settled, 
notched on the under side, | : 
Reared from seeds received from Dr. Saget who —_ 
