360 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Hedysarum. 



small, of a beautiful bright red. Legumes from one to two- 

 jointed. Joints compressed, orbicular. 



29. H. umbellatvm. Willd. iii. 1 182. 



Sub-arboreous. Leq/?^^*^ oblong, smooth, umbelled. Le- 

 gumes from four to six-jointed, notched on one side. 



H. tri folium arhorenm. Barm. Zeyl. t, 51. 



Teling. Chetentn. 



A native of moist rocky valleys, where it grows to be a 

 small tree, with smooth, green bark. It flowers during the hot 

 season. 



Branchlets twiggy, flexuose,somewhat three-sided. Young 

 shoots a little downy. Leave<< alternate, petiuled, spreading, 

 ternate. Leaflets oblong, pointed, smooth, entire, from two to 

 three inches long, and one or one and a half broad. Stipules 

 of the petioles short, cordate, chafl'y ; those of the leaflets su- 

 bulate. Umbels simple, axillary, peduncled, globular, erect. 

 Peduncles one-third the length of the petioles. Legumes 

 from three to six-jointed, compressed, pretty smooth, a little 

 recurved, notched on the upper margin. 



30. H. Cephalotes. H. 



Sub-arboreous, all the tender parts woolly. Leaflets ob- 

 long, ventricose, marked with many woolly, simple, parallel 

 veins underneath. Flowers crowded on short-peduncled, 

 axillary heads. Legumes IJat, villous, incurved, from two to 

 three-jointed. 



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

 troduced by Dr. W. Carey into the Botanic garden where it is 

 in blossom most part of the year ; the seed ripens duiing the 

 cold season. 



Stepi ligneous, erect, often as thick as a man's leg. 

 i^ranc/<es spreading, with nunurous, alternate, bifarious, three- 

 sided, downy branchlets. Leaves alternate, bifarious, ternate. 

 Leaflets elliptic, while young clothed with much, very soft, 

 woolly hair, with numerous, parallel, woolly veins under- 



