368 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, Doodia. 
very much like /agopodioides, and if I had not both growing 
before me at the same time, it might be difficult to find out 
wherein they differ specifically. The lengthening raceme is 
one of the most conspicuous marks, — 
4. D. alopecuroides. Roxb. 
Perennial, diffuse, the tender parts clothed with small 
hooked bristles, Leaves ternate ; leaflets oval, obtuse, Ra- 
cemes imbricated, and repeashbsling a fox’s tail from the hairi- 
ness of the calyx, bractes, and incurved pedicels, which bend’ 
the two-jointed legumes in against the rachis ; the upper lip 
of the calyx minute, and two-toothed. 
A native of the northern parts of India, from thence Colo- 
nel Hardwicke sent the plant to the Botanic garden where it 
grows freely, and blossoms during the rains. - fe 
_ Stem none, but several, spreading, perennial, anaeslice 
with ascending extremities, clothed with short, hooked bris- 
tles. Leaves scattered, petioled, ternate ; /eaflets ovate, obtuse, 
entire, clouded, both sides clothed with. the same short hook- 
ed bristles; from two to four inches long, and rather more 
than half of that in breadth. Petioles channelled, harsh, 
with hooked bristles. Stipules ending in a long, subulate 
hairy point from a broader, ciliate base. Racemes terminal, 
_imbricated before the flowers expand, strobiliform, ever after 
cylindric and more like a fox’s tail than those of any other 
species I have yet seen. Bractes approximate, round-cor- 
date, cuspidate, ciliate, two-flowered. Pedicels one-flower- 
ed, hairy, after the flowers droop, incurved, Flowers numer- 
ous, rose-coloured. Calyx bilabiate. The lower three divi- 
sions long, filiform, and very hairy ; the upper two very short. 
Legume two-jointed, folded together in the pation: of i 
fen a : vee 
5. D. pistiicdics = eg 
Shrubby, erect, Pawel pinnate eae linar 
