366 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Doodiu. 



general hal^it of Hedjisarum, viz. perennial, for the most 

 part Klnubby, their tender parts armed with diverging harsh 

 hooked bristles. 



Leaves simple, ternate or equally pinnate and stipulate. 

 Racemes terminal, before expansion imbricated >vith two- 

 llowered dagger-pointed bractes. Flowers of a middling 

 size, and rosy, pedicels pretty long, and what is a strong cha- 

 racteristic mark of the genus they become rigidly incurved 

 soon after the flowers decay, pressing the folded loraents for- 

 cibly in against the rachis. Corolas in the generality of pa- 

 pilionaceous plants. Filaments single and nine-cleft. An- 

 thers equal, oval. Germ sub-moniliform. Style clavate. /S'/?'*/- 

 wja capitate. Zomc«/5 composed of from two to six roundish, 

 one-seeded joints, united by slender isthmuses which admit 

 of their being very perfectly folded up within the segments 

 of the calyx. Embryo curved, furnished with a thin peris- 

 perm. 



1. D. simplicifolia. R, 



Shrubby. Leaves simple, ovate, oblong, lineate, villous 

 underneath, scabrous above. Racemes terminal, panicled. 

 iomew^s of several joints. 



A native of Chittagong where it flowers in October and 

 November. 



2. D. lagopodioides. R. 



Perennial, prostrate. Leaves ternate, and single. Racemes 

 oblong, dense. Leyumes two-jointed. 



Beny. Goluk-chakuli. 



A native of the coast of Coromandel as well as of Bengal ; 

 flowering in the rainy season. 



Stems several, slender, perennial, prostrate, and rooting at 

 the joints, round, covered with short scabrous hairs. Leaves 

 alternate, ternate, and simple. Leaflets roundish, emarginate, 

 both sides covered M'ith short scabrous hairs ; the largest 

 about two inches each way. Stipules subulate, those of the 



