HEDYSARUM. 
fined toa few fpecies only.—Linn. Gen. 382. —e 505. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 3. ays Mart. Mill. Did. Ait, 
Bort. Kew. wiegu 63; Fi. : Brits.-778. Toft, 362. 
ea Tiluitr, t. 628. ~ Gaertn. t. 155. 
(Onobrychis; Tourn. t. 211. Alhagi; enti t. 439. ) 
—Clafs and order, Diadelphia Decandria. Wat. Ord. Pa- 
a 
. piltonacee, Linn. ney en u 
Gen. Ch. Cai. rianth of one leaf, inferior, — divided 
half way vee into ie awl-fhaped, sp permanent feg- 
ments. Cor. Loahanpesay es ined ftandard iosz, ovate- 
dee towards the arid; 
right angle, divided from 
the bafe to the angle, otherwife uniied into one petal. Sta 
Filaments in two fe ets, one compofed of nine, the other folic 
tary, all bent together neeirds ata right angle; anthers 
roundifh, compreffed.’ Pi/f. Germen flender, oe ed, 
linear; ftyle ag ae he bent -— ve {ftamens ; 
feetly fimple. Le egum of one or more Ssueailc 
compreffed, Gnple fended iouiee not = Seed idseys cal 
= folitary. 
Ch. Calyx five- ioe 
sbiule keel. 
in perfection, ternate ones; fecon wo with conjugate 
deaves ;_ thir rdly, 64 with ternate leavers 3 and laitly 35 
whofe foliage is pinnate——The flruGure at the legume, or 
its joints, is are fometimes 
H. 
' the ribs or ikeleton of the very curious feed-veffel is often 
found infeparable from the crown of the root in the full- 
— Some recent patisical writers have given the 
lomentum to this kind of pod, which, ftri€tly fpeak- 
ing, cannot be faid to Shes of tw oxen: as it dons not 
burft. the diftinG@ion feems ‘cs us not very material, 
nor the name corre rs omentum is either a kind of colour, 
er pare meal or flour of beans ufed by the ancients, apparent- 
iy in a fort of wath or lotion, to {mooth the*fkin. 
d Milne’s Botanical 
earned authors of _—- no apes — 
eae 
é (Algul, o: 
Leaves fimple, lanceolate, obtufe. Stem fhrubby, fpinous. 
— Native of Armenia, George E Perks, pe Mefopotamia, 
and fome — of Tartary ; alfo of the iflands of Syros and 
i Frac “bared who has 
c eer v. ‘I. 123, and 
a 
ee ar Reuwolf, e 1735 t. ue 
2 
~ eftablithed i it as a genus, diftin& from Hed, iyfaram, on ac= 
ount of its fi imple alternate leaves. Thé root ig woody, 
pie about a yard high, branched from the bottom, pale, 
Pe mae’, ee a Leaves not unlike tho knot- 
Thorns sanneraieg,. rm, tharp, both 
hes drug is pst 6 colleéted 
about Tauris, and is known by the 
al s valued i ar proyoititar to its ‘paER; erin - 
evidoud: or “the diftinétnefs ofthe granulations. ‘The co 
fort, formed into little balls like loaves, is of a redaifh 
rown, full of dirt and leaves. 
dofe of either kind is from 25 to 30 drams, 
be no miftake, fhews it to be lefs aétive than ou : oficial 
manna, and we hope it is lefs naufeous. 
The reft of this fection confifts almoft entirely of tropical 
- plants, among which 1. /robili ies rudely figured in Linn. 
Fi. Zeyl. t. 3, is one or the moft ftriking, on account of 
the abundance of large pale downy braéteas, contrafted wi 
the beech-like leaves. "his fine fhrub, a native of the Ealt 
Indies, was firft raifed in Rugland Xs 
efg., in his ftove at Boyton, where it ‘ sotfomed copioully 
‘ about 17 
> 
2. St a ipecier are H. iphyllam oe 
mari; Rheede Malab. v. 9. t. 82.), native of th 
dies ; a {mall herbaceous avdrigl of no beauty ; ae : oe 
Jugatum of — _Teckone d by Linneus a variety | 
_ the former ; fee 
ft 
$, OF thofe with ternate ® leaves, Hf. 9: ofpertili jonis a 
ftand firft; fee Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 566. “This is a native 
5 
Cochinchina, very remariable for its —— brady pre : 
larly itriped, terminal leaflets, and has b 
our — S. he flowers are white and ee 
pulchellum, figured in Burm. Zeyl. ial 
fosabich Jrobiliferum at firlt fight, having long ee The 
twin orbicular braéteas at each little tuft of bloffom 
though of a fhrubby habit, bearing long {pike 
coloured flowers. Its great 
of which the central or om: leaflet is 
Pate wena pidi 
ere&t potture, or the hes Pa with Tapia] 
one of them will move, regularly by ftarts, w while the’ other 
is ftation This m otion does not oe joie ane 
leaves of one plant or ewenrie at a time, but par 
of all sole regularity, fympathy, or ct, 
Tournefort nc the red 
wh 
y A. B. Lambert, 
t. §2) much fre-_ 
Sesiates confifts i in the leaves 
