Doodia. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 369 
Racemes terminal, lengthening’, flowers paired. Loments from 
three to five-jointed. 
Hedysarum pictum, Willd. iii, 1204. 
Hind, Dabra. 
Beng. Sunkur-juta. 
A native of the shady banks of water courses, &e, Flow- 
ers during the rains. 
Stem erect, shrubby, branchy, from three to four feet high. 
Leaves alternate, petioled, from simple to pinnate. Leaflets 
the lower or single are generally oblong-ovate, two to three 
inches long, and one and a half broad, the leaflets of the com- 
pound leaves are linear-lanceolate, all are obtuse, entire, and 
beautifully clouded on the upper surface with dark brown- 
ish purple, below a little reticulated and downy. Racemes _ 
terminal, erect, rigid, cylindric, hairy. Bractes of the pedun- 
cles chaffy, permanent; those of the flowers lanceolate, two- 
flowered, falling. lowers numerous,small, red. Pedicels” 
incurved after the flowering time. Calyx, apices of the divi- 
sions incurved and bearded. Legume consisting of from three 
to six oval joints, connected by a slender isthmus, the incurv- 
ed form of the pedicels presses them so much against the ra- 
chis, that the form is with difficulty observed, till i foecibly 
extended, 
6. D. crimita, R. i 
Shrubby, diffuse, densely clothed with short hamose bris- 
tles, Leaves pinnate ; leaflets five, linear-oblong. Racemes 
terminal. Bractes lanceolate, ciliate, two-flowered. Pedi- 
cels and calyces most hairy. Legume three or il pe. 
and pressed together against the rachis, 
‘Hedysarum crinitum, Wiild. iii. 1218. Lour. Cochin Ch, 
451. Fl. Ind. t. 56. 
A native of Chittagong, differing from picta in being a low- 
er, and more diffuse plant, with broader leaves, never varie- 
gated, and the bractes and calyx much more hairy, 
Stem trifling, but several, spreading, or leaning branches, 
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