Hedifsarum. diadelphia ducandria. 357 



rooting- at the joints, sleiitloi, two feet long ; youny parts co- 

 vered with .sliort hairs. Leaves alternate ; exterior leaflets 

 rhonibitbrni, from one to two inches each way, the pair small- 

 er, obliquely obovate, all are entire and downy, particularly 

 on the under side. Stipu/es a\vIod, withering. Racemes ter- 

 minal, with generally a smaller one Irom the exterior axill, 

 long', erect, hairy. Bractes three-fold, three-flowered. Flow- 

 ers sm^W, of a deep purple, the middle one of the three is ge- 

 nerally abortive, Cuhjx four-parted. Legumes compressed, 

 obliquely truncate with a bristle, from three to four-jointed, 

 notched on the under side, closely covered with many stiff, 

 hooked hairs, which makes them adhere to every thing that 

 touches them. 



25. B. diffusum. Roxb. 



Shrubby, diffuse. Leaflets oblong, ventricose. Racemes 

 terminal, long, and slender, w^th rather remote fascicles o( 

 flowers. Lefjumes linear, from five to six-jointed, armed with 

 hooked bristles. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal, and from thence 

 introduced into the Company's Botanic garden by Dr. W. 

 Carey. Flowering time the latter part of the rainy season. 



Stems HiwA. branches diffuse, ligneous, but slender and vari- 

 ously bent. Bark smooth, of dark broAvnish green ; young 

 shoots covered with a iew depressed harsh hairs; the length 

 of the longer branches many feet. Leaves alternate, general- 

 ly ternate, though sometimes simple ; when so, they are cor- 

 date ; when turned the leaflets are elliptic, or ovale-oblong, all 

 are entire and pretty smooth on both sides. Stipules of the 

 petioles taper, triangular ; those of the leaflets ensiform. Ra- 

 cemes terminal towards the base, ramous,long, slender and vil- 

 lous. Floioers numerous, small, of a bright blue colour, col- 

 lected in rather remote fasciculi, and blossoming in succes- 

 sion. Bractes ensiform, one at the base of each pedicel. Le- 

 gumes linear, from five to six-jointed, covered with many 



