362 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Hedysarum, 
cemes axillary and terminal, of various lengths, the largest 
from two to three times longer than the leaves, with extre- 
mities drooping. Bractes alternate, bifarious, approximate, . 
short-petioled, paired, sub-orbicular, with petioles ending in 
a long terminal bristle between them, Flowers crowded, ex- 
panding in succession, small, of a pale cream colour, and yel- 
lowish with age. Calyx, upper lip entire, the under one of an 
equal division. Legumes two-jointed, and completely hidden 
by the bractes, 
33. H: patens. Roxb. 
Perennial, diffuse. Leaflets oblong. Racemes terminal, 
Bractes three-fold, one-flowered. Legume from five to six- 
jointed, notched underneath, hamose, bristled. 
A native of the Moluccas, In the Botanic garden at Calcut- 
ta it blossoms most part of the year, 
Stem none, but several branches springing ro Fe: crown 
of a ligneous root, spreading over the ground to the distance 
of some feet, round, ligneous, villous, and coloured. Leaves 
alternate, bifarious, ternate, rarely single, and then near the. 
root only, Leaflets, the pair smaller, ovate, and ovate-oblong, 
the terminal one nearly elliptic, or oval, all are obtuse, and 
pretty smooth, from one to two inches long. Pedioles villous, 
shorter than the leaves, and channelled, Stipules of the pe- 
tioles stem-clasping, chaffy, acute ; those of the leaflets subu-. 
late, Racemes terminal, solitary, simple, few-flowered. Brac-. 
tes three-fold, one-flowered; the lateral pair very small, 
Flowers small, purple. Calyx four-cleft ; upper. division 
broader, and bidentate. Legumes five or aes. clothed 
with numerous hooked bristles; the under margin deeply 
notched. 
34, H. Junceum. Willd. iii. p- 1194. 
Herbaceous; twigs long, and straight ; leaflets cancatie 
Flowers axillary. Legume one or two-seeded, the least af 
the segments of the calyx. a 
