Hedysarum. diadelphia decandria. 



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neath, and the margins entire and woolly, from two to four 

 inches long-, and iioni one to two broad. Petioles deeply 

 channelled and woolly, from one to two inches long. Stipu- 

 les of the petioles ensiform, woolly on the outside, caducous, 

 those of the leaflets filiform and also woolly. Peduncles axil- 

 lary, generally solitary, woolly, scarcely one-third or one- 

 fourth the length of the petioles, crowned with a simple, 

 small head of small short-pedicelled white flowers. Bracles 

 oi the peduncles two at the base of the pedicels, solitary, one- 

 flowered, those of the flowers opposite, pressing on the calyx 

 laterally, all are clothed with soft woolly hairs and are like 

 the stipules, though much smaller. Calyx woolly on the 

 outside, four cleft ; the upper sec/ment broad. Legumes flat, 

 incurved, villous, two or three-jointed. 



31. ri. arboreum. R. j 

 Arboreous. Leaflets nearly round and smooth, wit i sim- 

 ple and parallel veins. Stipules solitary, spathiform, biden- 

 tate. /Zf'arf.'j axillary, short-peduncled. Ley uine of oae or 

 two long, curved, fleshy joints. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



32. U. pulcliellum. Willd. iii. 1179. 



Shrubby, erect. i.f?«^e^s ovate-oblong. /?acemes axillary 

 and terminal, much longer than the leaves. Bractes paired, 

 sub-orbicular, many-flowered. Legumes two-jointed. 

 H. triplicatum frutescens, &c. Burm. Zeijl. t. 52. good. 

 Beng. Jj/ta Salpani. 



A most elegant shrubby species, common in many parts of 

 •India, particularly the mountains; flowering time the rainy 

 season. 



Stem erect ; branches spreading to one side with bifarious 

 alternate branchlets, the bark of a dark rust colour. Leaves 

 alternate, bifarious, alternate-ternale, expanding, short-petio- 

 led. JL,e«y?e<s ovate-oblong, lineate; smoothabove, alittlehairy 

 underneath. Stipules daggered, with long bristly points. Ra- 

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