330 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA,. Aeschynomene. 
_A large: climbing shrub ; a native of the extensive forests 
among the Circar mountains. 
Stem woody, climbing over trees, &c. Bark scabrous with 
a gray roughness. Leaves erect, alternate, pinnate with an 
odd one, about nine inches long. Leaflets opposite, six pair, 
oval, acute, entire, smooth ; two inches long, and one broad. 
Petioles round, smooth, Stipules of the petioles and leaflets 
awled, shorter than the leaves. Racemes axillary, erect; 
many-flowered, Bractes awled, one-flowered, lowers nu- 
merous, large, rose-coloured, Calyx slightly five-toothed. 
Banner emarginate, Wings falcate. Ne@tary, a crenulat- 
ed cup surrounding the base of the germ, as in some species 
of Dolichos. Legumes straight, pendulous, from six to nine 
inches long, and as thick as the fore finger, very protuberant 
at the seeds, and perfectly compressed between them, Seeds 
remote, from five to six, oblong. — 
Ido not know of any use to which any part of this plant i is 
put. 
AESCHYNOMENE. Schreb. gen. N. 1202. 
Calyx bilabiate, Filaments simple, nine-cleft, Legume 
long, straight, slender and acute, with a partition between 
the seeds, 
Note. So far dol agree with Geertner in the division of this 
genus, as to consider the only two species I have yet found 
in India, with articulated legumes, Hedysarums. But the 
other species with long, slender, torulose pods, intercepted 
between the rather remote seeds (and void of every appear- 
ance of a joint, or articulation between them) I shall consider 
to belong to the family in which they have hitherto been 
placed, but under an essential generic character someday 
altered. ene oe eee es 
1. A. grandiflora. ee 
Unarmed, arboreous. Leaflets ten-paired, Pedunch 
