Hedysarum, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 361 
neath, and the margins entire and woolly, from two to four 
inches long, and from one to two broad. Petioles deeply 
channelled and woolly, from one to two inches long. Stipu- 
: les of the petioles ensiform, woolly on the outside, caducous, 
those of the leaflets filiform and also woolly. Peduncles axil- 
lary, generally solitary, woolly, scarcely one-third or one- 
fourth the length of the petioles, crowned with a simple, 
small head of small short-pedicelled white flowers. Bractes 
of the peduncles two at the base of the pedicels, solitary, one- 
flowered, those of the flowers opposite, pressing on the calyx 
laterally, all are clothed with soft woolly hairs and are like 
the stipules, though much smaller. Calyx woolly on the 
outside, four-cleft ; the upper segment broad. Losses flat, 
incurved, villous, two or three-jointed. 
31. H. arboreum. R. 
Arboreous. Leaflets nearly round and smooth, with sim- 
ple and parallel veins. Stipules solitary, spathiform, biden- 
tate. Heads axillary, short-peduncled. Legume of one or 
two long, curved, fleshy joints, 
A native of the Moluccas. 
82. H. pulchellum, Willd, iii. 1179. 
Shrubby, erect. Leaflets ovate-oblong. Racemes suillebs 
and terminal, much longer than the leaves. Bractes paired, 
sub-orbicular, many-flowered. Legumes two-jointed. 
H. triplicatum frutescens, &c, Burm. Zeyl. 1. 52. good, 
Beng. Juta Salpani. 
Ame st elegant shrubby species, common in many parts of 
India, particularly the ‘mountains ; ; flowering time. the vale 
season. 
Stem erect; branches spreading to one sike with bifarious 
alternate branchlets, the bark of a dark rust colour. Leaves 
alternate, bifarious, alternate-ternate, expanding, short-petio- 
Jed. Leaflets ovate- oblong, lineate ; smooth above, alittle hairy 
underneath, Stipules daggered, veiths long bristly peace 
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