Indigofera. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 371 
Teling. Nalla-paleroo, 
Onobrychis minor, monophyllus madraspatana. Pluk, 
Alm, 160. t. 433. Fig.1. 
Hedysarum numularifolium. B. H,. . 
A native of moist borders of rice fields. It flowers during 
the wet season. 
Root perennial, ramous. Stem no other than many ramous, 
prostrate, angular, smooth, coloured, from one to three feet 
long branches, sometimes striking root. Leaves simple, al- 
ternate, bifarious, sub-sessile, orbicular, or broad-oval, a very 
little hairy, marked with many, small, glandular pits, Sti- 
pules subulate, Racemes axillary, short-peduncled, about 
as long as the leaves, from six to eight-flowered. Flowers 
small, red. Keel pointed, daggers obtuse. Legumes hori- 
zontal, moon-formed, beaked, covered with inoffensive, hook- 
ed prickles, one-seeded. 
3. 1. aspalathifolia, Roxb. 
Shrubby. Leaves fascicled, wedge-shaped, smooth. Pe- 
duncles axillary, solitary, one-flowered. Legumes straight. 
Manneli, Rheed. Mal. ix. t. 37. 
Aspalathus Indica, Linn, 
A small, branchy shrub, common on dry sandy lands near 
the sea. Flowers during the rainy and cold seasons, = 
Stem short, small. Branches numerous, spreading in 
every direction, small but very hard; bark dark purple. 
Leaves simple, fascicled, wedge-formed, small, smooth, Pe- 
duncles axillary, the length of the leaves, one or two-flower- 
ed. Flowers small, eas Keel, daggers slender, but long 
and sharp. Legumes horizontal, cylindric, smooth, gente 
from six to ten-seeded. 
A. I. trita, Willd. iii. 1228. 
Annual and biennial, erect, rigid. Leaves ternate; leaflets 
obovate. Racemes axillary, sessile, many-flowered. Legumes 
reflexed, straight, rigid, four-sided, spinous, pointed, smooth, 
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