Doodia. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 367 
petiole having a broad base. Racemes solitary, terminal, 
peduncled ; at first conical, afterwards cylindric, very hairy. 
Bractes oblong, acute, concave, hairy, Pedicels uniting at — 
the base, and one very hairy, after flowering time incurved. 
Flowers numerous, rose-coloured, Calyx very hairy, the 
lower three divisions very long, and still more hairy. The /e- 
gumes generally consist of two, oval, smooth joints folded to- 
gether, connected by a slender isthmus, and bent in against 
the rachis, by the incurvature of the pedicel, after the flowers 
decay. 
3. D. hamosa. R. 
Shrubby, diffuse. Leaves simple, and ternate, sub-rotund, 
villous, Racemes axillary and terminal, before expansion 
strobiliform. Legumes from two to four-jointed. 
A native of the interior parts of Bengal. Flowering time, 
the end of the rains. 
Stem scarcely any, but numerous, diffuse, variously bent, 
straggling, or creeping, woody branches ; young shoots aud 
racemes armed with shorter hooked bristles, intermixed with 
longer straight hairs. Leaves from simple to ternate. Leaf- 
lets from round to obcordate, emarginate, downy underneath, 
from one to two inches long. Stipules of the petioles taper, 
long, and subulate from a broad, semi-cordate base; those of 
the leaflets filiform, all are hairy, Racemes axillary and ter- 
minal, before the flowers appear strobiliform, but stretching 
outa great length by the time the seed is ripe. Bractes alter- 
nate, two-flowered, ovate, concave, witha long subulate point, 
ciliate, and hairy, one-flowered, after the flowers decay they 
become rigidly incurved, pressing the legume against the 
rachis of the racemes, making what was the under division 
of the calyx the upper. Flowers numerous, pretty large, of 
a pale rose-colour, in the morning changing to lilac. Calyx 
_very hairy. Legume of two, three, or four round joints unit- ; 
ed by slender pedicels, 
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