Hedysarum, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 359 
ed them on the northern frontier of Bengal. Flowering time 
the rainy season. 
Siem short, nearly straight, with numerous longer branches 
from its base, spreading close on the ground and striking root 
at the joints; all are round and while young covered with 
short depressed white hairs, Leaves ternate, Leaflets exact- 
ly oval, entire, pretty smooth, of a darker colour on the upper 
surface, and often stained. Petioles channelled, Stipules 
of the petioles, from broad bases, tapering toa long daggered 
point ; those of the leaflets awled. Racemes terminal, solitary, 
hairy, before the flowers expand, imbricated with numerous, 
two-flowered, broad-based, dagger-pointed, ciliate bractes. 
Flowers large, very numerous, of a beautiful deep bright 
blue purple. Calyx smooth, four-parted ; the upper division 
two-toothed, Corol, keel with two horns, not unlike those of 
Indigofera. However the general habit of the plant, besides 
the articulated Jegume, clearly points it out asa hedysarum. 
Legume of five or six orbicular joints, straight on the upper 
edge, and notched on the lower, hairy, particularly the mar- 
gins, oH 
28. H. biarticulatum. Willd. iii. 1183. 
Shrubby, slender, Leaves ternate ; leaflets oblong, smooth ; 
racemes terminal, Legumes with one or two joints. 
H. triphyllum. Burm. Zeyl. t. 5. f. 2. 
Teling. Nilla Kavani. 
A small diffuse perennial or shrubby species, a native of 
dry sandy ground, Flowering time the wet and cold sea- 
sons. ; 
Root woody, simple, descending to a great depth, Stem 
very trifling, and soon dividing into many ramous, diffuse, 
slender, smooth, purple branches. Leaves alternate, ternate. 
Leaflets nearly equal, oblong, smooth, about half an inch 
long and a quarter broad. Stipules of the petioles chaffy, 
embracing the branchlet, apices torn. Racemes terminal, 
Seusinsdowsect!: Bractes three-fold, many-flowered, Flowers 
