Hedysarum. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 363 
A native of Nepal, from thence Dr. Buchanan sent the seeds 
to the Botanic garden, under the name .4nthyllis cuneata, 
where the plants grow freely, and blossom during the rains 
and cold season, 
_ Root perennial, Stem erect, short, as they soon divide into 
long, simple, straight, or drooping, slender, villous twigs; 
they areall herbaceous. Leaves ternate while the plants are 
young, tending to be torn and often perfectly so; leaflets cu- 
neate, villous, scarcely half an inch long, and less than a 
quarter of an inch in breadth. Petioles three-sided, villous, 
Stipules chaffy, ensiform, petiolar, Peduncles axillary, very 
short, few-flowered, //owers small, of a pale yellow. Bractes 
minute, some embracing the insertions of the pedicels, and 
two large ones the calyx. Calyx four-cleft; division slender 
and acute, the upper one broader and iwStontbed Banner 
roundish, with a two-lobed, purple spot in the middle. Sta- 
mina one and nine, Legume scarce the length of the calyx, 
oval, one or two-sceded. 
35. H. tuberosum. Willd. iii. 1197. 
- Shrubby, twining ; leaflets downy. Racemes long ; 5 flow- 
ers three-fold. Eayethd hairy, ——— four. jointed ; con- 
tracted at the joints. 
_Kadsumi, Banks’ Icon. Kempf. tab, 25. 
- Teling. Daree, Goomodee. 
~ A rare species, a native of the valleys far up amongst the 
mountains. It flowers during the hot season, at which time 
it is perfectly naked of leaves, being deciduous about the be- 
ng of the cold season. 
- Root tuberous, very large. I think one of the largest I ever 
saw. Stems twining, woody, running over high trees, &c. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate. Leaflets roundish, pointed, 
entire, downy, from six to twelve inches each way. Petioles 
channelled, from six to twelve inches long. Stipules of the 
petioles cordate, those of the leaflets subulate. Racemes sim- 
: ple or —_— as the leaves, from tuberos = ea se 
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