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oval, obtuse, cordate at the base, sometimes varying to linear, glabrous or 
pubescent beneath: stipules equal to the petioles, sheathing the branches : 
_ racemes shortish ; flowers approximated : calyx deeply 5-cleft ; segments sub- 
ulate, rigid, distinct and slightly spreading when in fruit: legume several 
times longer than the calyx, nearly cylindrical, not contracted between the 
joints ; joints thickened at their line of junction, glabrous, reticulated.— DC. 
prod. 2. p. 353 ; Wall. ! L. n. 5767, a, b, d (we have not seen c) ; Wight ! cat. 
n. 807, 808 (partly).—A. varius, Wall.! L. n. 5768, a, b.—A. diversifolius, 
Wall.! L. n. 5772. b (the others not seen).—Hedysarum nummularifolium, 
Willd. sp. 3. p. 1173; Spr. syst. 3. p. 319.—H. cylindricum, Poir. enc. meth. 
5. p. 400.— Petiv. gaz. t. 26.f. 1; Burm. Zeyl. t. 49. f. 1. . 
This species was taken up by Willdenow in consequence of Linnreus's re- 
ference to Petiver, but the plant of the Flora Zeylanica and in Hermann's her- 
barium, which Linnzeus described, is Indigofera echinata. De Candolle, on 
the authority of Burmann’s herbarium, refers the tab. 49. f. 1. of the Thes. 
Zeyl. to A. vaginalis: the figure and description, however, belong unques- 
tionably to the present species. 
717. (3) A. vaginalis (DC. :) suffruticose, diffuse: branches covered more 
or less with spreading hairs: leaves from oval-obtuse and cordate at the base 
to cordate-lanceolate or narrow linear, slightly hairy on the mid-nerve be- 
neath: stipules equal to or exceeding the petioles: racemes terminal, elon- 
gated ; flowers in rather distant pairs: calyx somewhat campanulate at the 
base, 5-cleft to beyond the middle ; segments strongly nerved and somewhat 
hairy, distinct and somewhat spreading in fruit: legume 3-6-jointed, several 
times longer than the calyx, slightly moniliform or contracted between the 
joints ; joints a little inflated, reticulated, pubescent, often slightly thickened 
at the. line of junction.— DC. prod. 2. p. 353; Wight ! cat. n. 804, 805, 808 
(partly).— A. diversifolius, Wall.! L. n. 5772. c (not b, we have not seen @).— 
A. Rubibarna, Wall.! L. n. 5771. a, c (partly), d (partly, b not seen).—He- 
dysarum, n. 287, Linn.! fl. Zeyl. p. 133.—H. vaginale, Linn.! sp. p. 1051; 
Spr. syst. 3. p. 819; Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 345.—H. varium, Roth, nov. sp. 
p. 354.—H. bupleurifolius, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 346 ; in E. I. C. mus. tab. 392. 
—Pluk. t. 59. f. 3 (bad). à : 
The Linnæan herbarium contains three specimens under this name: one is 
the true plant ; the two others belong to A. nummularifolius. 
$2. Calyz 4-cleft to near the base: upper segment slightly bifid, emarginate, 
or entire ; all of them oblong or oblong-lanceolate, glumaceous, striated, 
in fruit erect with the edges overlapping each other, particularly at the 
base, and forming a kind of tube that encloses the legume either entirely 
or its lower half. 
i a. Joints of the legume smooth (without reticulations). ub 
718. (4) A. bupleurifolius (DC.: suffruticose, diffuse, glabrous: leaves 
Siri cre mend aet ron es stipules longer than the petioles : 
racemes terminal, elongated, few-flowered ; flowers short pedicelled, in dis- 
tant pairs: calyx cleft to beyond the middle: segments lanceolate, acute, 
striated, glabrous, ciliated at the apex: legumes glabrous, 3-5-jointed, some- 
what cylindrical and scarcely contracted between the joints, from — A 
long to twice as long as the calyx; joints smooth.—JDC. prod. 2. s 3 
Wall! L. n. 5671. (excl. f.); Wight! cat. n. 803.—A. ludens, Wa eni 
n. 5762. e, d, e (not f, the others not seen).—Hedysarum c MP N 
Linn.! sp. p. 1081.—H. gramineum, Retz, obs. 5. p. 26; Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. 
P. 646 ; Spr. ? syst, 3. p. 319. 
b. Joints of the legume reticulated irregularly. 
719. (5) A. longifolius (W. & A.:) herbaceous, erect, branched : stems te- 
