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THE UNIVERSAL HERBAL; 



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or sun, it is quiet. Perhaps, says Linneus, there may be 

 some part in vegetables, as in animals, where the cause of 

 motion resides. It is a native of Bengal, near the Ganges ; 

 and is there called Buram chadali, or Burram chandali. It 

 grows luxuriantly in the gardens of Jamaica. 



37. Hedysarum Canescens ; Rough-leaved Hedysarum. 

 Leaves scabrous underneath ; stem hispid ; flowers racemed, 

 conjugate. This is an upright hairy plant; the leaflets are 

 ovate; stipules awl-shaped, subcordate; flowers white. 

 \ative of Virginia. 



38. Hedysarum Repandum. Leaves ternate, repand- 

 crenate; racemes terminating, elongated. The stem is woody, 

 round, purplish, pubescent at top; leaflets on a short petiole, 

 ovate, unequal ; petioles two inches long, pubescent, jointed, 

 and thicker at the base, with two bristle-shaped scales 

 between the leaflets; stipules lanceolate, ciliate; peduncle 

 terminating;, erect, half a foot long; flowers very remote, 

 purple, before they open drooping; legume linear. Native 

 of Arabia. 



39. Hedysarum Adhcerens. Leaves ternate, oblong ; 

 racemes axillary; legumes cylindric, jointed, villose ; stems 

 weak, simple, three-sided, somewhat hairy; leaflets petioled, 

 an inch long, the side ones smaller, having long hairs thinly 

 scattered over both surfaces, and pressed close to them ; 

 petioles an inch and a half long, hairy. Native of the West 

 Indies. 



40. Hedysarum Marilandicum; Maryland Hedysarum. 

 Leaves roundish ; stem frutescent, branched very much ; 

 legumes jointed, even ; root perennial ; flower-stems squarish 

 and roughish, with small flowers, distant from each other, 

 in two long rows, on short slender peduncles ; corolla purple 

 fading to blue; banner broadish, first concave, then spread- 

 ing, having greenish spots at the base; wings applied to the 

 keel, of a purple colour; keel compressed, whitish towards 

 the base. Native of Virginia, Carolina, and Maryland. 



41. Hedysarum Tortuosum; Twisted-podded Hedysarum. 

 Leaves oval-oblong, obtuse, smoothish ; racemes erect, axil- 

 lary ; legumes twisted, compressed, pubescent. It grows 

 erect, and rises generally to the height of two feet and a 

 half or more ; flowers in spikes thinly placed, on pedicels 

 half an inch long; corolla of a pale purple colour. It is 

 common in the remote hills and inland parts of Jamaica, 

 Santa Cruz, and Vera Cruz. 



42. Hedysarum Spirare ; Spiral-podded Hedysarum. 

 Leaves ovate, obtuse, smooth ; stem very much branched, 

 with diffused branches; racemes loose, divaricate ; legumes 

 spirally twisted; flowers small, of a pale purplish colour. 

 Annual. Native of Jamaica. 



43. Hedysarum Frutescens. Leaves subovate, villose 

 underneath ; stem frutescent ; root perennial ; flowers at the 

 ends of the branches in short spikes, purplish-yellow and 

 small. Sent by Dr. Dale from South Carolina. This may 

 be raised in the same manner as directed for the second 

 species. In summer the plants may be exposed to the open 

 air, but in the autumn they must be placed under a frame to 

 screen them from frost ; the following spring some of these 

 plants may be shaken out of the pots, and planted in a warm 

 border, where, if the summer prove warm, they will flower, 

 but these seldom perfect their seeds ; therefore two or three 

 plants should be put into larger pots, and plunged into a 

 moderate hot-bed, which will bring them early to flower, 

 and if the glasses be kept over them in bad weather, these 

 will ripen their seeds in autumn ; and the roots will con- 

 tinue some years, if screened from frost in winter. 



44. Hedysarum Axillare. Leaves rhombed-roundish ; 

 item creeping, rooting; petioles upright; scapes axillary, 



longer than the leaves. This runs many feet from the main 

 roots, commonly casting a few fibres from all the joints that 

 touch the ground, which greatly forwards its luxuriant 

 growth. The leaves are marked with some prominent veins 

 on the under side, and are seldom less than an inch and H 

 half in length. Common in the shady hills of Jamaica and 

 St. Domingo. 



45. Hedysarum Viridiflorum ; Green-flowered Hedys'trum. 

 Leaves sharpish; stem upright; racemes very long, upright: 

 perennial. Native of North America. 



46. Hedysarum Hirtum. Leaves oval ; stem shrubby ; 

 spikes oblong; calices and fruits hirsute, one-seeded ; legumes 

 of one joint, ovate-acute. In gardens, the first year it bears 

 mutilated flowers, and yet is fruitful. The second year the 

 corollas are white. Native of Virginia. 



47. Hedysamm Junceum ; Slender-branched Hedysarum. 

 Leaves lanceolate ; legumes one-jointed, rhomb-shaped ; 

 peduncles subumbelled, lateral; root perennial; stem her- 

 baceous, two feet high, rushy, wand-like, round, somewhat 

 furrowed, smooth, somewhat pubescent towards the end ; 

 branches of the same length and structure with the stem, 

 alternate, few; flowers in pairs, erect, pedicelled ; corolla 

 white; banner broad, roundish, scarcely emarginate, with 

 blood-red streaks at the base; wings ovate, rounded at the 

 tip; keel bifid from the tip to the middle; the lobes rounded. 

 It flowers in July and August. Native of India. 



48. Hedysarum Violaceum ; Violet-flowered Hedysarum. 

 Leaves ovate; flowers in pairs; legumes naked, veined, 

 jointed, rhomb-shaped ; flowers violet-coloured, in pairs, 

 usually connected by their proper pedicels, in some glomerate 

 from the axils of the leaves, in others fixed here and there 

 on filiform peduncles. Native of North America. 



49. Hedysarum Paniculatum ; Panicled Hedysarwn. 

 Leaves linear-lanceolate; flowers panicled ; legume rhomb- 

 shaped ; flowers purple. Native of Virginia. 



50. Hedysarum Nudiflorum ; Naked-flowered Hedysarum. 

 Flowering-stem naked ; leafy stem angular ; flowers purple. 

 Native of Virginia. 



51. Hedysarum Repens; Creeping Hedysarum. Leaves 

 ohcordate ; stems procumbent; racemes lateral; flowers 

 variegated red and white, or sometimes white only, on long 

 axillary upright peduncles, disposed in a small spike; le- 

 gumes short, acuminate, smooth, compressed, containing 

 one very small ovate seed. Native of both Indies. 



52. Hedysarum Hamatum ; Hook-podded Hedysantm. 

 Leaves nerved, naked ; spikes sessile; lesjumes two-seeded, 

 covered, having a hooked point; root long, deep; steins 

 many, round, hairy, from seve.n or eight inches to a foot in 

 length, creeping, branched ; leaflets small, smooth, shining, 

 ciliate, having many beautiful white nerves on the under sur- 

 face. The flowers come out towards the top ; they are of an 

 orange colour, with a little purple in the middle. Native of 

 Jamaica, Hispaniola, ancf Ceylon. There is a variety, the 

 stems of which are from one to two feet in length, shrubby, 

 gray, branched into many twigs, which are green and hoary; 

 leaflets purple on the edge, having purple spots on their 

 backs, and a down of the same colour; petioles half an inch 

 long; flowers on the tops of the twigs, yellow, several open- 

 ing successively. Swartz makes it a distinct species under 

 the name of Stylosanthes Viscosa. Native of Jamaica and 

 Qeylon. 



53. Hedysarum Triflorum. Leaves obcordate ; stems pro- 

 cumbent; peduncles one-flowered, seldom three together; 

 roots simple, long; flowers minute, scarlet; legume small, 

 pcduncled, crenate in front, containing three or four seeds, 

 which are roundish and minute. It wakes at ten o'clock in 



