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shaded by large trees, it grows with an erect, woody stem, to 

 be three or four feet high, with many long- stragylmg- 

 branches, restino- on the ground ; in an expoised poor soil, it 

 is a small ditfuse, seemingly annual. In all, (he succulent 

 parts are hairy. The flowering- time the wet and cold sea- 

 son>. 



Leaves remote, alternate, horizontal, petioled, lanceolate, 

 hairy, size various. Petioles three-sided. Stipvles of the peti- 

 oles chafty, embracing- much of the branch of (he leal", Muall 

 and subulate. Spikes terminal, and leaf-opposed, many- 

 flowered, imbricated with chaffy, hairy, ciliate, ovate, point- 

 ed, two-flowered bractes. Flowers of a bright red. Calt/x 

 four-leaved ; upper /fY//'emarginate, hairy, the leng(h of (he 

 corol. Legumes erect, sharp pointed, of from three to Hve 

 obliquely oval rugose joints. 



7. H. stijracifoUum. Wil/d. iii. 1174. 



Shrubby, erect, ramous, every part except the upper sur- 

 face of the leaves hairy. JLeafes oblong, emarginate. Ra- 

 cemes terminal. Bractes solitary, cordate, two-flowered. 

 Calyx four-leaved, all entire. Legumes straight, thin, of five 

 rugose joints, notched on both sides. 



A native of Coromandel ; flowering time the close of the 

 rains. Seed ripe in January. 



8. H. f/htmaceum, Willd. iii. 1172. 



Biennial, diffuse, hairy. Leaves lanceolate, clouded. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, becoming- leaf-opposed. Bractes two-flow- 

 ered. Cali/x iour-leaved, ciliate, the upper one bideutate. 

 Legume of from three to four oblique, rugose joints. 



A native of the coast of Coromandel ; in the Botanic garden 

 at Calcutta it blossoms in the rains, and cold season. 



9. H. triqnetrum. Willd. iii. 1176. 



Perennial, diffuse. Leaves simple, oblong-cordate ; j)eti- 



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