362 DiADELPHiA DECANDRTA. Hedysavum. 



cemes axillary and terminal, of various lengths, the largest 

 from two to three times longer than the leaves, with extre- 

 mities drooping. Bractes alternate, bifarions, approximate, 

 short-petioled, paired, sub-orbicular, with petioles ending in 

 a long terminal bristle between them. Floioers crowded, ex- 

 panding in succession, small, of a pale cream colour, and yel- 

 lowish with age. Calyx, upper lip enlire, the under one of an 

 equal division. Legumes two-jointed, and completely hidden 

 by the bractes. 



33. H. patens. Roxh. 



Perennial, diffuse. Leaflets oblong. Racemes terminal. 

 Bractes three-fold, one-flowered. Legume from five to six- 

 jointed, notched underneath, hamose, bristled. 



A native of the Moluccas. In the Botanic garden at Calcut- 

 ta it blossoms most part of the year. 



Stem none, but several branches springing from the crown 

 of a ligneous root, spreading over the ground to the distance 

 of some feet, round, ligneous, villous, and coloured. Leaves 

 alternate, bifarious, ternate, rarely single, and then near the 

 rootonl3\ Leaflets, the pair smaller, ovate, and ovate-oblong, 

 the termhial one nearly elliptic, or oval, all are obtuse, and 

 pretty smooth, from one to two inches long. Petioles villous, 

 shorter than the leaves, and channelled. Stipules of the pe- 

 tioles stem- clasping, chaffy, acute; those of the leaflets subu- 

 late. /?«ce?«es terminal, solitary, simple, few-flowered. Brac- 

 tes three-fold, one-flowered ; the lateral pair very small. 

 Flowers small, purple. Cafijx four-cleft; upper division 

 broader, and bidentate. Legumes five or six jointed, clothed 

 with numerous hooked bristles; the under margin deeply 

 notched. 



34. H. Junceum. Willd. iii. p. 1194. 



Herbaceous; ttvigs long, and straight; leaflets cuneate. 

 Flowers axillary. Legume one or two-seeded, the length of 

 the segments of the calyx. 



