354 Di A DELPHI A DECANDRiA. Hedymrmn. 



Vory common on pasture ground and helps to form the 

 most beautiful turf we have in India. 



Root woody, perennial. Stem and branches creeping, al- 

 ternate, bifarious, slender, a little hairy, in some soils very 

 much so. Leaves ternate. Leaflets obcordate, small. Stipu- 

 les cordate, and partly attached to the petiole. Floivers leaf- 

 opposed, from three to six peduncled, of a beautiful bright 

 blue. Style swelled at the angle. Legumes from three to six- 

 jointed, curved a little, the seed-bearing margin straight, the 

 other notched. Cattle are very fond of it. 



It is probable that Burman's plant, also his H. Stipulaceum. 

 Burm. Flor. Ind. p. 168. t. 54./. 2. and this plant, are the 

 same, for in this species there are besides these stipules of the 

 petioles, others within at the base of the branchlets, but the pe- 

 duncles being numerous, and opposite to the leaves, is a 

 strong specific difference. 



The natives apply the fresh plant bruised to wounds that 

 do not heal well. 



21. II. reptans. Roxb. 



Perennial, cespitose, hairy. Leaflets oval. Peduncles 

 leaf-opj)osed, three or four-flowered. Legume from four to 

 six-jointed. 



Hedysarum trifoliatum. Burm. Zegl. 118, t. 54./". 1. 



This figure has already been quoted by various authors 

 for a variety of Hedysarum triflorum, while the shape of the 

 leaves, and the solitary, often more than one-flowered, pedun- 

 cles in this plant clearly evince their being distinct species, 

 besides this is a much more robust plant than triflormn. My 

 plant is a native of the interior parts of Bengal, and from 

 thence was introduced into the Botanic garden at Calcutta 

 by Dr. W. Carey ; flowering time the rainy season. 



Root perennial. Stetn scarcely any thing that can be so 

 called but many perennial branches creeping, even to their 

 very apices, perfectly flat on the earth and striking root at the 

 joints. Branchlets alternate, all slender, and very hairy, the 



