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triangular, pubescent principally on the angles: leaves cordate, ovate or li- 
near-oblong, acuminated, glabrous above, pubescent beneath: petioles winged ; 
wings acuminated or mucronate on each side at the apex: racemes axil- 
lary and terminal, many-flowered: bracteas subulate: legumes hairy, 5-8- 
jointed, straight on the one suture, slightly crenated on the other; joints 
about a half broader than lone — DC. prod. 2. p. 326 ; Wall.! L. n. 5688, d, e, f, 
9; l (partly), m (from Proc, n (from Chappadong), o (partly), p (partly) ; 
Wight! eat. n. 190.—Hedysarum, n. 286, Linn.! Al. Zeyl.—H. triquetrum, 
Linn. sp. p. 1052 ; Burm. fl. Ind. t. 52. J. 2 5 Spr. syst. 3. p. 319.—H. alatum, 
Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 348.—Burm. Zeyl. t. 81. ; 
This is the only species with winged petioles hitherto found in the Penin- 
sula; but perhaps D. alatum, DC. (Hed. triquetrum, Roxb., but not H. ala- 
tum, Roxb.), and D. pseudotriquetrum, DC., have been overlooked, if indeed 
they be distinct species : to the former of these belongs D. triquetrum, Wall. ! 
L. n. 5688, a, b, k (partly), m (from JEst. Irawaddi), n (from Moolmyne); 
and to the latter Wall.! L. n. 5688, c, i, k (partly), Z (partly), p (partly). 
We know, however, of no character to distinguish the three species but the 
different degrees of hairiness on the fruit, the ovary and legume being quite 
glabrous in D. alatum, and glabrous on the sides but hairy on the sutures in 
D. pseudotriquetrum. 
` b. Leaves simple: petiole simple : legume straightish on one side, deeply notched 
on the other ; joints semicircular. 
696. (5) D. latifolium (DC.:) shrubby, ascending, branched: branches te- 
rete, tomentose, spreading: leaves broadly cordate or ovate, obtuse or acu- 
minated, repand-crenated, harshly pubescent on the upper side, tomentose 
9n the under: petioles simple: stipules small, subulate from a broad semi- 
cordate base: racemes axillary and terminal; flowers very numerous: brac- 
teas subulate-setaceous: legumes densely clothed with hooked hairs, 4-5- 
jointed, slightly crenated on the one suture, notched to the middle on - 
other: joints nearly semiorbicular, slightly truneated at both ends.— Wall. ! 
L. n. 5692 —,, Roaburghii ; leaves cordate-ovate, almost as broad as long, 
obtuse or slightly acute ; racemes lax before expansion as well as after, seve- 
ral times longer than the leaves.— Wight! cat. n. 792.—D. latifolium, DC. 
Prod. 2. p. 327.—D. collinum, Wall. L. n. 5693.—Hedysarum latifolium, 
Roxb. ft. Ind. 3. p. 950 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1611 ; Roth, nov. sp. p. 355.— 
8, Telfuirii ; leaves broadly ovate, retuse at the base, rounded at the apex, a 
little longer than broad: axillary racemes dense, about a half shorter than the 
leaf ; terminal ones panicled.—y, Plukenetii ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nated, about twice as long as broad ; axillary racemes much shorter than the 
leaves, terminal ones panicled —Pluk. t. 432. f. 3. 
these our var. « alone is from the peninsula: 6 we know only as a Ma- 
gascar plant, cultivated in the Mauritius, and transmitted by Bojer and 
Telfair: y we have from Prome. Perhaps these ought to form as many spe- 
cies. 
697. (6) D. Gangeticum (DC.:) somewhat shrubby: stems irregularly ws, ma 
Sprinkled with adpressed or spreading rigid white hairs: leaves co so nb > 
obtuse or acute, somewhat cordate at the base ; upper side slightly : dtes 
or almost glabrous, under more or less pubescent or hairy: cue — al 
Stipules subulate from a semi-cordate base: racemes axillar Ces de vob. 
Very long, lax: bracteas setaceous: legumes 6-8-jointed, hispi M 2h à 
Tulous, straightish on the one suture, notched to near the back " E E uie 
joints semiorbicular.— DC. prod. 2. p. 827 ; Wall.! L. n. 5689; Wight ! "a: ; 
193, 794. — p. maculatum, DC. l. e. ; Wall. ! L.n. 5690.—Hedysarum = 
geticum, Linn. / sp. p. 1052; Roxb. ! fl. Ind. 3. p. 348; in E.I. C. mus. tab. 
1610.—H. maculatum, Linn. ? sp. p. 1051.—H. collinum, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. 
P. 348.—H. styracifolium, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 393.—Pluk. t. 50. f. 3. 
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