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one above another? or fometimes three together, on very 
flender peduncles_, forming a long thin fpike, in which 
each pair of flowers is placed in a contrary fituation to 
the next ; corolla pale violet, (reddifh yellow, Miller,) 
the wings white at the bafe, and pale blue towards the 
end, but the keel is all over white ; roughifli, com- 
jSretfed, in front divided by femicircular portions; but 
■with an even line along the back, each portion when ripe 
feparates, and contains one kidney-fhaped feed, (lightly 
comprefled. Native of India; cultivated in Mr. She- 
rard’s garden at Eltham in 1732; it flowers in July or 
Auguft. 
12. Hedyfarum latebrofum : leaves ovate, ferrulate; 
legumes hid by a vaulted, fupine, fcariofe, bradte. 
13. Hedyfarum vaginale, or Iheathed hedyfarum: leaves 
cordate-lanceolate; petioles Ample ; ftipules (heathing. 
Natives of India. 
14. Hedyfarum glumaceum : leaves Ample, lanceolate; 
Aipules and calyxes fcariofe ; legumes wrinkled. Per¬ 
ennial. Stems woody, procumbent, wand-like, round, 
fmooth, a foot high ; branches (horter than the ftem; 
leaves on (hort petioles, fpreading, acuminate, fmooth; 
an inch long. It differs from H. gramineum (18) in 
having the joints of the legumes broader, rounder, 
wrinkled ; in other refpedts it refentbles that fpecies 
much. It is allied to H.bu'pleurifolium (2) and vaginale 
(13); but their legumes are even, and directed all the 
fame way ; it is very different from violaceum (48)? 
though Vahl has inadvertently given it the fame name. 
15. Hedyfarum imbricatum, or imbricate-leaved he¬ 
dyfarum : leaves cordate, feffile, Aipuled; the upper 
ones imbricate, flower-bearing. Stems herbaceous; 
Aliform, diffufed, branched. It differs from H. ftrobi- 
liferum in having ftrobiles or fcales of a form different 
from the leaves; in the peduncles and all other parts 
they agree. Found by Thunberg at the Cape of Good 
Hope; doubtful whether it may not be the fame with 
Glycine monophyllum. 
16. Hedyfarum triquetrum, or triangular-branched 
hedyfarum : leaves oblong ; petioles winged ; branches 
three-flded. Native of India, China, and Cochin-china. 
17. Hedyfarum ftrobiliferum, or ftrobile-bearing he¬ 
dyfarum : bradtes of the ftrobiles inflated; cordate, 
obtufe. This is a tree, with oblong-ovate alternate 
leaves; there are ftrobiles from the axils of the leaves, 
as in the hornbeam ; thefe ftrobiles diftinguifh this fpecies 
from all ,the others, and efpeeially from H. pulchellum, 
No. 21. Native of India. 
18. Hedyfarum gramineum, or grafs-leaved hedy¬ 
farum : heaves linear, lanceolate; ftipules fcariofe; ra¬ 
cemes naked ; pedicels two-flowered, teeth of the calyx 
bearded. A fhrub, determinately branched; ftems 
rou'nd, ftiff, jointed. Leaves two inches long, a line and 
a half broad, acuminate, veined ; petioles fhort, brown. 
NativO of India; fent by Koenig. 
II. With conjugate leaves. 19. Hedyfarum diphyl- 
lum, or two-leaved hedyfarum : leaves binate, petioled; 
bradtes in pairs, ovate, acute, feflile. Annual; ftems 
herbaceous, procumbent, Aliform, round, fmooth. Na¬ 
tive of Jamaica, in the hot fandy parts; South America; 
and the Eaft Indies. Cultivated before 1733 by Mr. 
Miller, to whom Dr. Houftoun fent the feeds from Vera 
Cruz. There is a variety called H. bifolium, which is 
found wild near Canton, and in Ceylon. 
III. With ternate leaves. 20. Hedyfarumadfcendens: 
leaves foundifh, pubefcent underneath, ftem columnar, 
branches declined, afcending, hairy, racemes Ample, 
eredt, axillary. Native of Jamaica. 
- 21. Hedyfarum pulchellum: bradtes in pairs, conju¬ 
gate, orbiculate, marked with lines. Stem (hrubby, 
Upright, three.feet high, round, fmooth; branches many, 
oblique, obtufely angular. Native of India and China. 
22. Hedyfarum elegans : leaves obtufe, tomentofe on 
both fldes; bradtes conjugate, ovate; legumes bowed. 
Native of China, near Canton,. 
ARUM. 
23. Hedyfarum fpartium : leaves ternate and Ample, 
fomewhat tomentofe; ftem dichotomous; flowers in 
pairs; legumes jointed, hifpid. Native of India. 
24. Hedyfarum lineatum : leaves oblong, marked with 
lines; racemes axillary, pendulous. Native of Ceylon. 
25. Hedyfarum fupinum: leaves ovate, bluntifli, 
hoary-villofe underneath; ftem branched-, procumbent; 
racemes'Ample,, erect, terminating. Root long, fmall, 
woody ; ftems a foot long, reddilh, rough, round, woody. 
Leaves at unequal diftances, on petioles half an inch in 
length ; leaflets pale underneath, the middle one lortgeft.- 
Corolla purple. Legumes crooked; forming a femicircle, 
brown; the joints united by fo (mail an ifthmus, that 
when they adhere by their roughnefs to the clothes, they 
feparate, whence the Portuguefe name of erva d'amor. 
Every joint contains one pale yellow feed. It grows 
almoft every where in the woods of Jamaica. 
26. Hedyfarum canum: leaves ovate, acuminate, 
hoary underneath ; ftem columnar,branched, eredt; ra¬ 
cemes terminating eredt ; legumes declined, rough with 
hairs ; ftem (hrubby, about ftve feet high; dividing into 
• feveral branches. Native of Jamaica, whence Dr. Houf- 
touh fent the feeds to Mr. Miller; and alfo of Hifpaniola. 
27. Hedyfarumretroflexum: racemeseredt; legumes 
pendulous, many-jointed. A fhrub ; very much refem- 
bling H. lineatum, No.24. but the legumes have feveral 
joints, from four to feven. Native of India. 
28. Hedyfarum trigonum : leaves ovate, acute, rough 
with hairs; ftem climbing three-flded ; racemes very 
long, axillary ; legumes writhed,bent in. It is a climber, 
and raifes itfelf generally to the top. of the tailed trees 
in the wood. The ftem is every where befet with fmall 
hooked bridles, or rough hairs. The leaves are much 
like thofe of the kidney-bean ; and all the branches ter¬ 
minate in a large and beautiful flower-fpike. Native of 
Jamaica; whence the feeds were fent by Dr. Houftoun 
to Mr. Miller, who mud therefore have cultivated it 
before 1,733. 
29. Hedyfarum umbellatumt peduncles umbellife¬ 
rous ; ftem (hrubby, A fhrub with woody branches, 
the lower ones round and brown, the upper ones-angular 
and villofe; flowers white. Native of India, Tanna, 
and New Caledonia. 
30. Hedyfarum biarticulatum-: ftem underflirubby; 
legumes two-jcinted. Leaves like thofe of trefoil, with 
ovate-oblong fmooth leaflets, almoft equal. Native of 
India, and China'. 
31. Hedyfarum lappaceum :■ leaves ternate, obcordate; 
flowers axillary, fubfolitary ; legumes two-jointed, with 
hooked briftles. Stems fuffruticofe, proftrate, pubef¬ 
cent, round, the thicknefs of a pigeon’s quill, very much 
branched. 
32. Hedyfarum heterocarpon : flowerspanicle-fpiked; 
legumes jointed, the loweft one-feeded ; ftipules briftle- 
(haped. Stems round, herbaceous, (freaked, fmooth, 
drooping, two feet high and more. Flowers fle(h-co- 
loured. Native of Ceylon, China, Japan, and the So¬ 
ciety Ides. - 
33. Hedyfarum vifcidum : legumes membranaceous, 
even, entire; ftem and branches hifpid. Native of 
India. 
34. Hedyfarum fcorpiurus: leaves oblong, hirfute 
underneath; ftems procumbent, three-cornered ; racemes 
axillary ; legumes roundilh, upright. It grows in tufts, 
and feldom rifes above ftxteen or feventeen inches from 
the root. Native of Jamaica and Hifpaniola. 
.35. Hedyfarum Canadenfe, or Canadian hedyfarum,: 
leaves Ample and-ternate ; ftem even ; flowers racemed. 
An upright plant, and moftly fmooth ; perennial Na¬ 
tive of Virginia and Canada; flowering in July and 
Auguft. Cultivated in 1640, according to Parkinfon. 
36. Hedyfarum gyrans, orfenfitive hedyfarum : leaves 
oval-lanceolate, obtufe, the lateral ones minute. Root 
branching, perennial; (biennial, Hort. Kew. annual, 
Swartz.) Stem (hrubby,, three feet high, wand-like, 
upright. 
