Hedtjsarum, diadf.i.pjua decandria. 359 



ed them on the northern frontier of Bengal. Flowering time 

 tlie rainy season. 



Stem short, nearly straight,M ith numerous longer branches 

 from its base, spreading close on the ground and striking root 

 at the joints; all are round and Mhilo young covered with 

 short depressed \vhite hairs. Leaves ternate. Leaflets exact- 

 ly oval, entire, pretty smooth, of a darker colour on the upper 

 surface, and often stained. Petioles channelled. Stipules 

 of the petioles, from broad bases, tapering to a long daggered 

 point ; those of the leaflets awled. Racemes terminal, solitary, 

 hairy, before the flowers expand, imbricated with numerous, 

 two-flowered, broad-based, dagger-pointed, ciliate bractes. 

 Floicers large, very numerous, of a beautiful deep bright 

 blue purple. Calyx smooth, four-parted ; the upper division 

 two-toothed. Coral, keel with two horns, not unlike those of 

 Indigojera. However the general habit of the plant, besides 

 the articulated legume, clearly points it out as a hedysanim. 

 Legume of five or six orbicular joints, straight on the upper 

 edge, and notched on the lower, hairy, particularly the mar- 

 gins. 



28. H. biarticulaium. Willd. iii. 1183. 



Shrubby, slender. Leaves ternate ; /eo/Ze/s oblong, smooth ; 

 racemes terminal. Legumes w ith one or two joints. 



H. tripliyllum. Liurm. Zeyl. t. o.J'. 2. 



Teling. Nilla Kavani. 



A small diffuse perennial or shrubby species, a native of 

 dry sandy ground. Flowering time the wet and cold sea- 

 sons. 



Root woody, simple, descending to a great depth. Stem 

 very trifling, and soon dividing into many ramous, diffuse, 

 slender, smooth, purple branches. Leaves alternate, ternate. 

 Lcajlets nearly equal, oblong, smooth, about half an inch 

 long and a quarter broad. Stipules of the petioles chafly% 

 embracing the branchlet, apices torn. Racemes terminal, 

 many-flowered. Bractes three-fold, many-flowered. Flowers 



