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bark-stove or glass-case, otherwise they will not produce 

 seeds, nor even always flower, in England. They require 

 as much air as possible in warm weather. Many of the sorts 

 seldom flower till the second year. 



3. Hedysarum Linifolium ; Flax-leaved Hedysarnm. Leaves 

 linear, hoary ; stem prostrate; racemes very short, axillary ; 

 legumes globular, small, snow-white, with a permanent style, 

 one-jointed. Native of the East Indies. 



4. Hedysarum Nummularifolium ; Moneywort-leaved He- 

 dysarum. Leaves wedge-shaped ; stems long, angular, dif- 

 fused ; stipules awl-shaped, longer than the petiole, patulous, 

 very small, clothing the stem; spikes solitary from the axils, 

 on a long peduncle ; flowers very small ; the legumes declined, 

 crescent-shaped, hispid on the back, containing one seed. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



5. Hedysarum Moniliferum; Necklace Hedysarum. Leaves 

 orbiculate ; legumes necklace-shaped, globular, jointed; stems 

 a span long, prostrate; stipules two-parted, streaked, sharp, 

 scariose ; heads of flowers axillary: perennial. Native of the 

 East Indies. 



G. Hedysarum Styracifolium ; Storax-leaved Hedysarum. 

 Leaves cordate, orbiculate, retuse, smooth on the upper sur- 

 face, tomentose underneath ; stem shrubby, and, like the 

 whole plant, villose; stipules lanceolate. Native of China. 



7. Hedysarum Reniforme ; Kidney-leaved Hedysarum. 

 Leaves kidney-shaped; stem columnar, annual, a foot and a 

 half high, branched, slender, smooth, procumbent; flowers 

 violet-coloured, in terminating spikes or racemes, consisting 

 of few flowers. Native of India, and the suburbs of Canton 

 iu China. 



8. Hedysarum Sororium. Leaves kidney-shaped, emargi- 

 nate ; stem three-sided, herbaceous, sarmentose, smooth, a 

 foot high ; petiole almost the length of the leaf; stipules two, 

 oval, small, petioled at the base of the petioles, so that the 

 leaves might in strictness be looked upon as ternate. 

 Native of the East Indies. 



9. Hedysarum Vespertilionis ; Bat-winged Hedysarum. 

 Leaves simple and ternate, somewhat crescent-shaped, varie- 

 gated, yellow, red, and green; middle leaflets two-lobed ; 

 lobes lanceolate, divaricate; legumes plaited; stem four feet 

 high, upright, very straight, almost simple, round, but four- 

 cornered at the top, furrowed, hispid with very fine hairs, 

 frequently having one or two short upright branchlets ; flowers 

 in a simple, long, upright, terminating spike or raceme; 

 corolla white; banner broad, cordate, converging, a little 

 longer than the calix ; wings bent in, shorter than the banner, 

 keel of an intermediate length. It is a native of Siam, from 

 whence it has been carried into Cochin-china, where it is 

 cultivated for its beauty, for in a gentle breeze the leaves as 

 they move resemble as many variegated butterflies. 



10. Hedysarnm Gangeticum ; Oval-lfaved Hcdi/snrvm. 

 Leaves ovate, acute, stipnled. This is an annual plant, about 

 three feet high, having a slender stalk, inclining to be shrubby ; 

 flowers minute, in long terminating spikes; banner and keel 

 of the corolla yellow; winss violet-coloured. Native of 

 India and the suburbs of Canton. 



11. Hedysarum Maculatum ; Spotted Hedysarnm. Leaves 

 ovate, obtuse ; stems several, from a hand to a long span and 

 a foot in height, either upright or declining, round, slender, 

 ronghish with slender hairs, pressed close; flowers on the 

 upper part of the stalk, in pairs one above another, or some- 

 times three together, on very slender peduncles, forming a 

 long thin spike, in which each pair of flowers is placed in a 

 contrary situation to the next. Native of the Fv.ist Indies. 



12. Hedvsarum Latebrosum. Leaves ovate, sorrulaia : le- 

 gumes hid by a vaulted, supine, scariose bracle; stem some- 



what shrubby, naked, with a few wand-like divaricate round 

 branches ; flowers axillary, peduncle very short, two-flowered, 

 with a leafy bracte, resembling a dry wrinkled leaf, and 

 defending the legume from birds. Native of India. 



13. Hedysarum Vaginale; Sheathed Hedysarum. Leaves 

 cordate-lanceolate; petioles simple; stipules sheathing. This 

 plant is annual, herbaceous, and procumbent; stipules acu- 

 minate; spikes towards the ends of the steins long and narrow ; 

 branches few; legumes cylindiic, smooth-jointed, straight, 

 dividing by joints, though they are scarcely apparent on the 

 outside, and there are no divisions within. Native of India. 



14. Hedysarum Glumaceum. Leaves simple, lanceolate ; 

 stipules and calices scariose; legumes wrinkled, perennial ; 

 stems woody, procumbent, wand-like, round, smooth, a foot 

 high; raceme terminating, when in flower two inches long, 

 when in fruit elongated; flowers usually in pairs, seldom 

 solitary. Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



15. Hedysarum Imbricatum; Imlricate-leaved Hedysarum. 

 Leaves cordate, sessile, stipuled, the upper ones imbricate, 

 flower-bearing; stems herbaceous, filiform, diffused, branched ; 

 flowers among the upper leaves, solitary, sessile, shorter, hid 

 by the leaves. .Native of the Cape of Good Hope. 



16. Hedysarum Triquetrum ; Triangular-branched Hedy- 

 sarum. Leaves oblong; petioles winged; branches three- 

 sided ; stems many, perennial, shrubby, procumbent, three 

 feet long, with three side-branches ; flowers purple, in spikes 

 or racemes, mostly terminating; banner roundish. In thu 

 Cochin-chinese plant, the leaves have not rounded margins, 

 nor refracted petioles, as the plant of Ceylon has ; they 

 have both lanceolate stipules, and the stem inclining to red 

 at the end. The Chinese call it Kasonrjso. Native of India, 

 China, and Cochin-china. 



17. Hedysarum Strobiliferum ; Strobile-bearing Hedysa- 

 rum. Bractes of the strobiles inflated, cordate, obtuse. This 

 is a tree, with oblong-ovate alternate leaves, quite entire, and 

 petioled ; stipules subulate ; branches round. There are 

 strobiles from the axils of the leaves, as in the Hornbeam, on 

 a simple flexuose peduncle. Native of India. 



18. Hedysarum Gramineum ; Grass-leaved Hedysarum. 

 Leaves linear, lanceolate ; stipules scariose ; racemes naked ; 

 pedicels two-flowered ; teeth of the calix bearded. This 

 shrub is determinately branched; stems round, stiff, jointed ; 

 racemes stiff, elongated, leafless; peduncles in pairs, one- 

 flowered, distant; corolla small, purple. Native of India. 



** With conjugate Leaves. 



19. Hedysarum Diphyllum; Two-leaved Hedysarum. 

 Leaves binate, petioled ; bractes in pairs, ovate, acute, 

 sessile ; annual : stem herbaceous, procumbent, filiform, 

 round, smooth ; peduncles axillary, terminating, longer than 

 the leaves, upright, stiflT, many-flowered ; flowers alternate, 

 on very short pedicels, between two opposite bractes, acu- 

 minate at both ends; corolla yellow or purple. Native of 

 Jamaica, South America, and the East Indies. 



"* With ternate Leaves. 



20. Hedysarum Adscendens. Leaves roundish, pubescent 

 underneath ; stem columnar; branches declined, ascending, 

 hairy; racemes simple, erect, axillary. Native of Jamaica. 



21. Hedysarum Pulchellum. Bractes in pairs, conjugate, 

 orbiculate, marked with lines ; stem shrubby, upright, three 

 feet high, round, smooth ; branches many, oblique, obtusely 

 aiiL'ular ; spikes of flowers long, straight, terminating; corolla 

 yellow; legume flat, straight, acuminate, composed of two 

 joints defended by the bractes. Native of India and 

 China. 



2'2. Hedysarnm Elegans. Leaves obtuse, tomentose 00 

 both sides ; bractes conjugate, ovate ; legumes bowed ; stem 



