Ilcdysariim. di.vdf.i.imiia dkc.vndui a. 353 



A native of naked sandy pasture ground. Flowers during 

 the wet and cold seasons. 



Root simple, long, slender, biennial or triennial. Stem 

 none. Brandies numerous, simple, spreading close over the 

 ground to a great extent, somewhat from eight to ten feet 

 each way, slender, smooth, three-sided. Leaves remote, al- 

 ternate, petioled, orbicular, emarginate, smooth, often cloud- 

 ed, those near the root simple, further they have often a mi- 

 nute, lanceolate leaHet or two, (called bractesin i\\e Mantis- 

 sa,) as in H. (pjrans. Stipules of (he petioles semi-lanceo- 

 late, chaft'y ; those of the leaves, or leaflets minute. Racemes 

 axillary, longer than the leaves, few-flowered. Broctes con- 

 cave, few-flowered. Legumes boat-shaped, pointed, snjooth, 

 always one jointed and one-seeded. 



SECT. II. Leaves conjugate. 



19. H. diphyllum. Willd. iii. 1178. 



Herbaceous, cespitose. Leaves binate; /ecr^^fs lanceolate. 

 Stipules lanceolar. 



Nelam mari. Rheed. Mai. ix. t. 82. 



The leaflets in Burman's figure are much too broad and 

 short for the sort on the continent of India, and I think Will- 

 denow must be right in considering it a distinct species. Our 

 plant is common on poor sandy pasture land, in many parts 

 of India. 



SECT. III. Leaves ternale. 



20. H. triflorum. Willd. iii. 1202. 



Perennial, creeping. Leaven ternate. Leaflets obcordate. 

 Flowers peduncled, from three to six, opposite to the leaves. 

 Legumes falcate, from four to five-jointed, notched on the 

 under side. 



Beng. Kodalia. 



H. trij'oliatum repens, &c. Burm. Zeyl. vi. 54.y. 2. 



Teliuij. Moonoodda-Mondoo. 

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