370 BENGAL PLANTS. | Heylandia, 
222. Heylandia DC. 
A prostrate herb ; leaves close-set, alternate, simple. lowers 
small, axillary, solitary. Sepals connate in a turbinate tube; teeth 
lanceolate, 3 lower longer than the 2 subconnate upper. Petals 
much exserted; standard suborbicular with 2 basal scales at the 
top of the short claw; wings short, obovate-oblong ; keel narrow, 
its petals connate, narrowed to an incurved beak. Stamens 10, 
united in a tube slit above; anthers alternate, short versatile, and 
long basifixed. Ovary sessile, 2-ovuled; style abruptly ineurved 
at base, elongated, longitudinally bearded above; stigma terminal. 
Fruit a flat oblong 1-2-seeded pod, continuous within. Seeds 
without strophiole ; funicle filiform. ‘ 
422. HeynanpIa LATeBRosA DC.; F. B. LI. ii, 65. Crotalaria 
uniflora ¥F. I, iii. 271. 
and long basifixed. Ovary sessile or rarely stipitate, g-many” 
ovuled ; style much incurved, often abruptly inflexed, na or ee 
*Leayes digitately com : 
pound :—{p. 371} linest 
Leaflets almost always 5, sometimes 7, very rarely 3, narrowly 
