366 DiADELPHTA DECANDRiA. Hedtjsarum. 



A nntive of ihe interior j>aifs of Bengal. The flowering time 

 the close of the rains ; the seeds ripen during- the cold season, 

 soon after which the whole plant perishes. 



Sleni none, but several, stout, sub-ligneous branches from 

 three to six feet long spreading close on the ground, and strik- 

 ing root. Hranchk'ls alternate, bifarious, five-sided, villous, 

 scabrous wiih small hooked hairs. Leaven alternate, bifari- 

 ous. ternate. Leajlets ovate, obtuse, villous, and somewhat 

 scabrous on both sides; from one to three inches long, and 

 broad in proportion. Stipules of the petioles ear-shaped, 

 stem-clasping ; those of the leaflets lanceolate. Racemes axil- 

 lary and terminal, very often so comjiound as to fonn large, 

 bifarious panicles. Peduncles and pedicels angular, and 

 armed with harsh hooked hairs. Bractes of the ramifications 

 like the stipules of the flowers, or extreme divisions, ovate, 

 ciliate, two or three-flowered. Flowers minute, very numer- 

 ous, slender, pedicelled, pink coloured. Legumes linear, a 

 little curved, from four to six-jointed, notched on the under 

 side, armed with a few hooked hairs, which makes them ad- 

 here readily to any thing that touches them. 



Cattle are fond of the green plant, and as it is one of the 

 most luxuriant of the genus, I have met with, it might be ad- 

 vantageously cultivated for fodder in India. 



It comes very near my Hedjfsai um qu'tnqnangulatum, No. 

 3.98 ; but differs specifically in the stipules and shape of the 

 leaflets, independent of their duration. 



24. H. vescidum. Barm. Lid. 167. ^-c. B. H. 



Perennial, creeping, hairy. Leaflets roundish, downy. 

 Stipules subulate. Racemes terminal. Floicers three-fold. 

 Legumesirom four to five-jointed, notched on the underside, 

 and covered with hooked hairs. 



A creeping, perennial species, growing under the cover of 

 bushes, in a dry, gravelly soil. It flowers during the wet and 

 cold seasons. 



Boot woody. Stems or rather branches several, prostrate, 



