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HOAREA hedysarifolia„ 
Hedysarum-leuved Hoarea. 
M.hedysarjfolm, ■ acaulis, foliis simplicibus ovatis pinna- 
tifidis pinnatisve: foliolis segmentisque oblongo-ellip- 
ticis integris 2-3-lobis hirsuto-canescentibus, stipulis 
acuminatis, scapo diviso, umbellis multifloris, petalis 
angustis longe unguiculatis patentibus, tubo nectarifero' 
calyce refiexo duplo longiore. 
Hoarea hedysarifolia. Swt. hort. brit. p. 76. n. 63. 
Root tuberous, branching out into other small tubers. 
Leaves crowning the root, thickly clothed with a hairy ca- 
nescence; lower ones simple, entire, ovate, others pinna- 
tifid or pinnate ; leaflets and segments oblong, elliptical or 
sometimes lanceolate, entire, 2-cleft or 3-lobed, opposite 
and alternate, the terminal one largest, all clothed with a 
dense hairy canescence, but not toothed. Petioles flat¬ 
tened on the upper side and convex on the lower, thickly 
clothed with a short canescence, and longer hairs inter¬ 
mixed. Stipules narrowly lanceolate or linear, taper- 
pointed, and joined some way up to the petioles. Scape 
branching, and producing several umbels of flowers, clothed 
with a short white pubescence, and longer hairs intermixed. 
Peduncies stout, cylindrical, producing a many-flowered 
umbel. Involucre of numerous linear, acute, hairy, bristle- 
pointed bractes. Calyx 5 -cleft, segments lanceolate, acute, 
hairy, fringed, and the points tipped with bristle-like white 
hairs; upper segment rather the largest, erect, the others 
all reflexed. Nectariferous tube more than twice the 
length of the calyx, sessile or nearly so, a little flattened 
on each side. Petals 5, spreading, very long and narrow 
with a long unguis, two upper ones broadest, spathulate, 
recurved from above the middle, of a purplish crimson. 
