Hethjsarum. dtadelpiiia decanduia. 363 



A native of Nepal, from tlience Dr. Buchanan sent the seeds 

 to tlie Botanic oarden, under the n:\me ,4ntIn/lHs cnneata^ 

 M'hcre the phuits grow freely, and blossom during the rains 

 and cold season. 



Root perennial. Stem erect, short, as they soon divide into 

 Jong, simple, straight, or drooping, slender, villous twigs; 

 they are all herbaceous. Leaves ternate while the plants are 

 young, tending to be torn and often perfectly so ; leaflets cu- 

 neate, villous, scarcely half an inch long, and less than a 

 quarter ot an inch in breadth. Petioles three-sided, villous. 

 Stipules chaffy, ensiform, petiolar. Peduncles axillary, very 

 short, few- flowered. Flowers small, of a pale yellow. Bractes 

 minute, some embracing the insertions of the pedicels, and 

 two large ones the calyx. Calyx four-cleft; division slender 

 and acute, the upper one broader and two-toothed. Banner 

 roundish, with a two-lobed, purple spot in the middle. Sta- 

 mina one and nine. Legume scarce the length of the calyx, 

 oval, one or two-seeded. 



35. H. tuberosum. Willd. iii. 1197. 



Shrubby, twining ; leaflets downy. Racemes long ; flow- 

 ers three-fold. Legume hairy, pendulous, four-jointed ; con- 

 tracted at the joints. 



Kadsunii. Banks^ Icon. Kcempf. tab. 25. 

 Teling. Daree, Goomodee. 



A rare species, a native of the valleys far up amongst the 

 mountains. It flowers during the hot season, at which time 

 it is perfectly naked of leaves, being deciduous about the be- 

 ginning of the cold season. 



Root tuberous, very large. I think one of the largest I ever 

 saw. Stems twining, woody, running over high trees, &c. 

 Leaves alternate, petioled, ternate. Leaflets roundish, pointed, 

 entire, downy, from six to twelve inches each way. Petioles 

 channelled, from six to twelve inches long. Stipules of the 

 petioles cordate, those of the leaflets subulate. Racemes sim- 

 ple or branchy, as long as the leaves, from tuberosities caused 



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