Hedf/saritm. diadelphia decandrta. 351 



pandetl, for in (heir natural folded state the shape is semi- 

 reniforni, tolded, inflated, nervous, scarions, large bractes; 

 each concealing- in its duplicature a small fascicle, or more, 

 of peduncled, pure white, middle-sized flowers. Legume of 

 one joint with one or two small reniforni maculated seeds. 



15. H. hracteatum. Roxh. 



Shrubby, erect ; leaves narrow-cordate. Facemes termi- 

 nal, compound, bifariously iml)ricated with alternate, reni- 

 forni, inllatcd, downy, bractes. /.er/M»ie of one oval joint, 

 two seeded. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal ; from Dinajpoor 

 Dr. W. Carey sent the seeds to the Botanic garden at Cal- 

 cutta, where the plants thrive luxuriantly, and begin to blos- 

 som during- the cold season. 



Stems several, shrubby, erect, a few branches from their 

 upper parts. Tender parts somewhat angular and soft, witli 

 very fine down, height of the four-year-old plants about three 

 or four feet. Leaves bifarious, alternate, very short pefiol- 

 ed, narrow-cordate, entire, smooth above, about three inches 

 long, by one, and one and a half broad. Stipules chafly, en- 

 siform, permanent. Racemes terminal, or from the exterior 

 axills, drooping-, compound, or even decompound. Kamiji- 

 cations thereof bifarious, alternate, very downy. Bractes 

 folded, &.C. as in H. strobiliferum, but in this species they 

 are soft with much down. Exterior bractes ensiform, ciliate, 

 and placed like stipulae one on each side of the insertion of 

 the large folded bractes. Flowers mumie ; race/nes within 

 and hid by the folded bractes except for a few hours when 

 in vigorous blossom the bractes open a little, they are small, 

 rose-coloured. Legumes small, hid within the scariose bractes, 

 of one oval joint, villous, one or two-seeded, two is most 

 common. 



16. H. gyrans. Willd. iii. 1186. 



SuftVuticose, erect, twiggy. Leaflets lanceolate, the lateral 



