282 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Arachis. 
that the flowers are most perfectly sessile, two, three, or four 
in the axills of the Jeaves, and that the germ is lodged in the 
very base of the tube of the calyx. Soon after the flower 
decays the germ acquires pedicels, after which it lengthens 
fast, it then enters the earth, and when the legume is perfectly 
formed, it will generally be found as deep in the earth as when 
full grown, I therefore conceive that it buries itself to its great- 
est depth before the seeds begin to enlarge, and while the 
germ is only an obtuse point, 
The uses of the seed of this plant, are too universally 
known to render any account of them necessary in this place. 
2. A. fruticosa, Retz. Obs. iv. N. 67. 
Trifolium procumbens, Burm, Zeyl, p, 206. t, 106. f. 2. 
bad. aA ; 
Stylosanthes mucronata, Willd, iii. 1166, 
Teling. Saillee-kumpa. — 
This small, spreading, ramous, under shrab, is now com- 
mon in the Botanic garden at Calcutta, first reared from seed _ 
sent by the Rev. Dr. John at Tranquebar, The plant is in- - 
digenous in‘Ceylon. Leaves alternate, ternate, Leaflets 
ovate, acuminate, slightly ciliate; scarcely half an inch long. 
Petioles at the base enlarged into a sagittate, stem-clasping 
sheath, which ends in two lateral acute points, one on each 
side. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, or in small terminal 
strobiliform heads. Bractes one-flowered. Calyx; tube 
long, slender, villous; border five-parted, the inferior divisi- 
on lengthened, Corols papilionaceous. The petals inserted 
‘partly on the base of thick fleshy staminiferious tubes, and 
partly on the mouth of the tube of the calyx. Filaments 
ten united into one tube at the base, with only the appear- 
ance of a fissure on the upper side, Anthers alternately — 
linear, and ovate, Germ oblong, lodged in the base of the 
tube of the perianth, Style long, slender; passing through 
the whole tube of the calyx, elevating the acute stigma 
