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DALBERGIA VOLUBILIS. 



CROTALARIA JUNCEA 



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Legume pedicel'd, linear-oblong, obtuse, membranous, waved, 



smooth, from two to three inches long, by one broad, not 

 opening; 1-2-seeded. 



but of that plant they only use the leaves as an intoxicating 



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I have taken some trouble to teach the natives the use of a plant 



famous countries 

 trees. 



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which hitherto they have only abused, by making some of their 

 This is a very large, woody, species ; a native of the moun- farmers witnesses to every part of the culture and preparation 



lest of the hemp, and which, on being compared with their best 



Tschanamoo hemp, they were perfectly convinced was infinitely 

 better : at the same time the culture being equally easy, and the 

 produce equally large, I have reason to think a few years will bring 

 it into general use in these parts, and by degrees over India. 



The Hemp-Crotolaria is much cultivated by the natives during 

 the cold season. It is sown towards the close of the rains in 



192. DALBERGIA SCANDENS. 



Tscheratally badoo of the Telingas 





tober or Novemb 



The 



of 



Branches pendulous, remarkably long and slender. 

 Leaves alternate, feather'd, with an odd one, about six inches 



. Leaflets 3-5 pair, opposite, oblong, or broad lanced, 



ance. It requires no further care than to be covered with the soil, 



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Ion 



two dragged by 



ffal 



over the field. In 



obtuse, smooth, shining, entire, 2-3 inches long, and about February or March, soon after the flowers drop, and before the 



one broad. 

 Petiole channel'd. 



Raceme axillary, single, long, bowing. 

 Flowers fascicled, small, rose-colour'd. 

 Legume lanced, membranous. 

 Seed two or three, kidney-form. 



A common, very large, woody, climbing, or twining species; 

 flowering during the wet season. 





193. 



CROTALARIA JUNCEA 



Linn. spec, plant. 1004. 



Hemp-Crotalaria. 

 Tchanomoo of the Telingas. 



Stem herbaceous, straight, 4-8 feet high, striated from the insertion 



when the plant stands single, still more so. 



Leaves scattered, short-petioled, lanced, obtuse, with a small point, 



both sides covered with soft silver-colour'd hairs, from two 

 to six inches long, and from half to one and a half broad. 



Stipules awl'd, small. 



Raceme terminal. 



Bractes oval, one-flower'd. 



Flowers numerous, large, of a most beautiful bright yellow. 



Calyx: upper lip two-cleft ; under lip three-parted at the middle, 



and there gaping, at the apex united. 

 Corol: Banner obtuse. Keel much pointed, slightly twisted at the 



apex, and closely shut. 



Anthers on the shorter filaments linear, on the longer two-lob'd, 



round-hearted. 



Legume sessile, club'd, downy, about an inch and a quarter long. 

 Seeds numerous, kidney-form. 



I have only found it in a cultivated state ; where it grows wild 



I cannot say. Flowering time, or rather that of cultivation, the 

 cold season. 



This useful plant yields the Hindoos their best hemp, for they 

 have no idea of the superior quality of the bark of the common 

 hemp-plant (Cannabis), which is indigenous in all parts of India; 



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seeds are ripe, it is pulled up by the roots, like hemp, half dried 



indies and committed to the water, 



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Of 



kind 



called Gunny. 



V plant cultivated by the natives of these parts, to 

 feed their milch-cows, during the dry season, and I have found by 

 experience, that it is very nourishing, and produces more milk 



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It onlv b 



which the plants perish, 



194. 



HEDYSARUM BUPLEURIFOLIUM 



Linn. spec, plant. 1051. 



of the leaves, a little downy, towards the top branchy, and Stem scarce any. 



Branches many, sometimes nearly erect, sometimes diffuse, very 



slender, woody, 1-3 feet long. 



Leaves alternate, short-petioled, linear-lanced, smooth, one and a 



half or two inches long, and one eighth of an inch broad. 



Stipules of the petiole chaffy, half-lanced. 



Raceme terminal, pretty long. 



Bractes three-fold, lanced, two-flower'd. 



Flowers small, beautifully variegated with red and yellow. 



Calyx four-cleft: upper division end nfck'd, apices bearded. 



Legume erect, sub-cylindric, composed of 3-5 almost round, pretty 



smooth articulations. 



A small perennial woody species, grows generally among long 

 grass, on dry ground ; flowers during the wet and cold seasons. 



195. INDIGOFERA LINIFOLIA 



Linn. spec, plant, edit. Willdenow. 3. p. 1220 

 Hedysarum linifolium. Linn.suppl. 331. 



, woody, perennial, long, slender. 



but many small, slender, round, whitish-grey, 



:e branches, in general from six to twelve inch 



