358 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Hediisctrum. 



short, booked bristles by wliich they adhere readily and firm- 

 ly to every thing- that touches them. 



26. H. recurvatum. Roxh. 



Shrubby with recurved branches. Leaves bifiirious. 

 Leaflets ovate. Racemes axillary and terminal, drooping- long- 

 before the flowers expand. Bractes many-flowered. Le- 

 gumes linear, compressed, ramous, bristly, from six to seven- 

 jointed. 



A native of the interior parts of India, and introduced into 

 the Botanic garden by Captain Hardwicke from Cawnpore. 

 It flowers during- the rains, and ripens its seed in the cool 

 season. 



Trunk (in our young plant) short but ligneous, with the 

 branches bending to one side and their extremities recurved, 

 the under parts clothed with short depressed hairs. Leaves bi- 

 farious, ternate. Leaflets ovate and oval, entire, rather acute, 

 somewhat pubescent. Petioles channelled, ^'///jrt/esof the pe- 

 tioles chaffy, taper-pointed, large ; those of the leaflets subu- 

 late. Racemes axillary and terminal, before the flowers ex- 

 pand they point directly to the earth, afterwards they be- 

 come very long, from one to two feet. Bractes, the exterior 

 one single, broad-lanceolate, embracing several smaller wilh 

 a succession of small violet- coloured flowers. Calyx four- 

 cleft ; the upper division broader but entire. Banner nearly 

 white. Wings and apex of the keel blue. Legumes long, 

 slender, compressed, clothed with hamous bristles by which 

 they readily adhere to any thing they touch, both margins 

 nearly even. Joints long, six or eight. 



27. H. prirpureum. Roxb. 



Perennial, diftu'-e ; leaflets oval, clouded. Racemes ter- 

 minal, before expansion strobiliform. Ze</M/He5 six-seeded, 

 notched on the under side. 



Reared from seeds received from Dr. Carey, who gather- 



