Doodia. diadelphia decandria. 367 



petiole having a broad base. Racemes solitary, terminal, 

 peduncled ; at first conical, afterwards cylindric, very hairy. 

 Bractes oblono;, acute, concave, hairy. Pedicels unitiiig- at 

 the base, and one very hairy, alter flowering- time incurved. 

 Flowers numerous, rose-coloured. Calyx very hairy, the 

 lower three divisions very long, and still more hairy. The le- 

 gumes generally consist of two, oval, smooth joints folded to- 

 gether, connected by a slender isthmus, and bent in against 

 the rachis, by the incurvature of the pedicel, after the flowers 

 decay. 



3. D. hamosa. R. 



Shrubby, diffuse. Leaves simple, and ternate, sub-rotund, 

 villous. Racemes axillary and terminal, before expansion 

 strobiliform. Legumes from two to four-jointed. 



A native of the interior parts of Bengal. Flowering timn, 

 the end of the rains. 



Stem scarcely any, but numerous, diffuse, variously bent, 

 straggling, or creeping, woody branches ; young shoots and 

 racemes armed with shorter hooked bristles, intermixed with 

 longer straight hairs. Leaves from simple to ternate. Leaf- 

 lets from round to obcordate, emarginate, downy underneath, 

 from one to two inches long. Stipules of the petioles taper, 

 long, and subulate from a broad, semi-cordate base; those of 

 the leaflets filiform, all are hairy. Racemes axillary and ter- 

 minal, before the flowers appear strobiliform, but stretchino* 

 out a great length by the time the seed is ripe. Bractes alter- 

 nate, two-flowered, ovate, concave, with a long subulate point, 

 ciliate, and hairy, one-flowered, after the flowers decay they 

 become rigidly incurved, pressing the legume agviinst the 

 rachis of the racemes, making what was the under division 

 of the calyx the upper. Flowers numerous, pretty large, of 

 a pale rose-colour, in the morning changing to lilac. Calyx 

 very hairy. Legume o^ two, three, or four round joints, unit- 

 ed by slender pedicels. 



Excepting the racemes and size of the plant, this species is 



