646 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Hedijsamm. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, oval, or orbicular with a 

 small point, hairy. Stipules of the petioles embracing- the 

 branch, chaffy, half-lanceolate. Racemes leaf- op posed, late- 

 ral, all axillary, many times longer than the leaves, few- 

 flowered. Bractes three-fold, chaffy, ciliate, two-flowered. 

 Floicers remote, small, of a bluish purple. Legumes com- 

 pressed, from two to four-jointed, hairy. 



5. H. gramineum. Willd. iii. 1172. 



Biennial, erect. Leaves simple, linear, smooth. Racemes 

 terminal, long", 



11. gramineum. Retz. Obs. v. JV. 70. 



Beng. Pan Nutta. 



A small perennial woody specie?, growing- generally 

 amongst long grass on dry ground. It flowers during the 

 wet and cold seasons. 



Stem scarcely any. Branches many, sometimes nearly erect, 

 sometimes diffuse, very slender, woody, t>om one to three feet 

 long". Leaves alternate-petioled, linear-lanceolate, smooth, 

 one and a half, or two inches long, and half an inch broad. 

 Stipules of ihe petioles chaffy, semi-lanceolate. Racemes 

 terminal, pretty long. Bractes three-fold, lanceolate, three- 

 flowered. Floicers small, beautifully variegated Avilh red 

 and yellow. Calyx four-cleft; upper division cmarginate; 

 apex bearded. Legumes erect, sub-cylindric, composed of 

 from three to five, almost round, pretty smooth articulations. 



6. H. bupleurifolium. Willd. m.Wll. Coram, pi. ii. JST. 

 194. 



Perennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves linear-lanceolate. Sti- 

 pules chaffy. Spikes imbricated with two-flowered bractes. 

 Calyces four-leaved ; the upper one bidentate. Legumes 

 erect, beaked, obliquely jointed. 



Difference of soil and situation produces such great changes 

 in this plant as to make a transient exammer imagine he had 

 met with two or more distinct species. In a good soil, and 



