316 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. DoUchoS. 



Bractps solitary. laiicoolnte, concave. FJoidPrn yellow, small. 

 Legume compirssed, falcate, two seeded. Cattle eat this sort, 

 I know of no other use it is put to. 



20. D. Pliaspnlohles, Roxh. 



Perennial, twiinnn;-, clothed with diverg^ing- hairs. Leaflets 

 semi-cordate, and deltoid, or three-lobed. Racemes the length 

 of the leaves. Legumes cylindric, toward the apex incurv- 

 ed, from ten to twenty-seeded. 



From Mr. Kerr at Canton in China, the seeds were receiv- 

 ed into the Botanic garden in 1804 ; where the plants thrive 

 well, and blossom chieHy about the close of ihe rains, and the 

 seeds ripen about the beginning- of ihe cool season. 



Stem and branches perennial, twining, when they do not 

 meet m ith support, they run on the ground, and strike root, 

 round, and clothed with distinct, brown, diverging- haiis. 

 Leaflets the pair sub-semi-cordate, sometimes the posterior 

 maigin pnjects into a large rounded lobe, the terminal one 

 deltoid, or three-lobed, all are hairy like the branches, gene- 

 rally from two to three inches long, and from one totwo broad. 

 Petioles very hairy, hairs harsh, and brown. Stipules of the 

 petioles triangular, of the leaflets subulate. Racemes axil- 

 lary, solitary, about as long as the leaves. Floivers numer- 

 ous, pretty large, violet-coloured, aiul collected in bundles on 

 alternate glands. Bracies of the gland three-fold, those of 

 the flowers tMO-Cold, all are very hairy, and ovate-lanceolate, 

 the former caducous, the lat(er more pernuuient. Cah/x 

 somewhat bilabiate, the flower three-toothe<l,'the middle tooth 

 ends in a long filiform point, the upper bidentate. Legumes 

 diverging, cylindric, towards the apex incurved, about as 

 thick as a common cjuill, and from three to four inches long-, 

 black when ripe, and a little hairy. Seeds from twelve to 

 twenty, smooth, small, brownish gray. 



2l.'D.faha>formis. Willd. iii.1052. 



Annual, erect. Leaflets ovate, dentate. Stipules subu- 



