348 DJADKLPiiiA DEC A N I) R I A. Hcdysairim. 



nles winged. Racemes terminal. Legumes smooth, raany- 

 jointed. 



The figures of this plant, if intended for it, in the Herba- 

 rium Ambomense, l?7irmaH\i Flora Zet/lanica, and Flora 

 Indira, are all bad. It is a native of many parts of India, 

 though not common, so far as 1 have been able to observe, in 

 any ; flowering time the cold season. 



Stems perennial, many, diffuse, with many bifarious, 

 spreading, coloured, somewhat three-sided, smooth, branches. 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, bifarious, ovate-oblong, smooth on 

 both sides and entire. Petioles winged. Stipules as in the 

 genus. Racemes terminal. Floivers numerous, three-fold, 

 rose-coloured. Legumes of from four to eight joints, and 

 notched on the under side. 



10. H. nlatum. Roxb. 1896. 



Shrubby, erect, with many erect, from three to four-sided 

 branches. Leaves simple, long, linear-cordate. Petioles 

 winged. Racemes terminal. Legumes hairy, thin, from four 

 to six-jointed ; louier margin crenulate. 



H. triqvetrnm. Biirm, Jnd. t. 2b. J'. 2. 



A native of Hindoostan. Flowering^ time the close of the 

 rains. Is allied to H. triquetruin on account of the winged 

 petioles only; that is always procumbent, this straight and 

 perfectly erect, and a much more beautiful plant. 



Trunk short and straight. Branches many, erect, the 

 tender shoots, three, or four-angled, from the insertion of the 

 leaves downwards these angles are more villous than the other 

 parts. Leaves simple, linear-cordate, entire, smooth on both 

 sides, about four inches long. Petioles much shorter than 

 the leaves, winged, which at the upper wing terminate in 

 two recurved points. Racemes terminal, and from the exte- 

 tior axills, erect, from six to twelve inches long. Flowers 

 numerous, small, of a violet-colour. Bractes three-fold, two- 

 flowered, but between these two flowers there is according 

 lo my observations a succession of abortive flowers. Calyx 



