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us an allied species from St Vincents, which we have received from Dr 
Hooker: but in it (perhaps a variety of D. scorpiurus, Desv.) the stems are 
herbaceous and only slightly hispid, the stipules though small are auricled, 
the racemes axillary and few-flowered, and the legumes slightly contracted 
at both sutures between the long joints. 7 
§ 2. Flowers 2-3 from each bractea : racemes straight, before expansion cone- 
like and imbricated with large concave bracteas, afterwards elongated and 
lax. 
a. Leaves 3-foliolate ; the lateral leaflets much the smaller and occasionally want- 
ing: calyx campanulate, shortly 5toothed: ale shorter than the keel: le- 
pu straight on the one suture, slightly crenated on the other; joints near- 
y Square, straight on the one suture, slightly convex on the other, truncat 
at both ends. 
701. (10) D. gyrans (DC.:) suffrutescent, erect, twiggy: branches rather 
slender, angled, glabrous: leaves petioled, trifoliolate ; leaflets narrow-oblong 
or oblong-lanceolate, obtuse at both ends, glabrous above, adpressed-pubes- 
cent beneath ; the lateral pair very small: racemes axillary and terminal, nu- 
merous towards the top of the branches, and forming together a large pani- 
cle: bracteas broadly cordate, concave, before expansion densely imbricated 
over the flowers, caducous: flowers short-pedicelled : stigma elongated late- 
rally and as if 2-cleft : legume flat, pubescent, straight on the upper margin, 
crenated on the lower, 10—12-jointed.— DC. prod. 2. p. 326; Wall.! L. n. 
5725; Wight! cat. n. 183.—Hedysarum gyrans, Linn. suppl. p. 332 ; Jacq. 
di Mia s 562 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 312 ; Roxb. fi. Ind.3. p. 351; in E. I. C. mus. 
ab. : á 
In Dr Wight’s herbarium there is a specimen from Dr Royle, gathered in 
ee in which the terminal leaflet is much broader and more e ptic than 
usual, and the legume is glabrous: it may, however, prove a distinct species 
(D. Roylei, W. & A.) 
* 102. (11) D. gyroides (DC.:) herbaceous, diffuse: branches angled, cloth- 
ed with short soft white hairs: leaves 3-foliolate ; leaflets obovate-elliptic, 
obtuse, npper side glabrous, under whitish pubescent, almost silky on the 
margin and nerves beneath ; terminal leaflet 3-4 times larger than the lateral 
Snes: stipules lanceolate-subulate : racemes axillary and terminal, forming a 
Panicle at the ends of the branches: bracteas broadly cordate, pointed, pu- 
Scent, before expansion densely imbricated like a cone, soon deciduous: 
vexillum about half the length of the keel: style marked with a transparent 
€; stigma obtuse: legumes hirsute, straight on the one suture, slightly cre- 
hated on the other—DC. prod. 2. p. 326; Wall.! L. n. 5728; Wight! cat. n. 
82.—Hedysarum gyroides, Roxb. hort. Bengh. p. 57 (omitted in the fl. Ind.) 
b. Leaves 1.3 foliolate: lat eaflets nearly as large as the terminal one: calyx 
divided to beyond as ir, upper lip shortly bifid: keel with a horn s 
spur (as in Indigofera) on each side about the middle: legume straight on the 
one suture, notched to the middle on the other *. 
703. (12) D. polycarpum (DC. :) suffruticose, procumbent, branched, often 
rooting at the joints: branches slightly angled, usually with white adpressed 
pubescence, but often with white spreading hairs on the young shoots: 
"aves trifoliolate ; leaflets from exactly oval and obtuse at both ends to obo- 
vate-retuse or mucronate ; upper side glabrous or very sparingly pubescent ; 
under reticulately veined, usually pubescent, sometimes covered with long 
white silky down ; lateral leaflets rather smaller than the terminal one, 
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