Aeschynomene, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 331 
two to three-flowered, pendulous. Calyx of two entire lips. 
Legumes pendulous, very long, linear; the upper margin 
broad and channelled, many-seeded. 
Coronilla grandiflora, Willd. iii. 1145. 
Agati, Rheed. Mal. i, t, 51. 
Sans, Buka, 
Beng. Buka, also Augasta, 
Hind. Basna the red-flowered variety, and Sada basna the 
white, 
Tam, Agati. s 
Teling. Yerra avesi the name of the red-flowered bis 
Tella avest the white-flowered. 
A small, delicate, but high, viz. from twenty to pedtety feet, 
tree of only a few years’ duration, It is generally found in 
the vicinity of villages, where the natives encourage its 
growth, for the sake of the leaves and tender pods which they 
use in their curries, It is in flower and fruit most part of the 
year, = 
Trunk straight, from ten to twelve feet high. Bark pretty 
smooth, Branches thinly scattered. Leaves alternate-abruptly 
pinnate, from six to nine inches long. Leaflets opposite, from 
eight to twelve pairs, linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, smooth, 
oF a whitish-green, about an inch long, and three-eighths 
broad. Stipules of the petioles half lanced, caducous ; ‘those 
of the leaflets minute. Peduncles axillary, short, somewhat 
‘downy, from, two to four-flowered ; pedicels peduncle-like. 
Bractes minute, falling. lowers very large, red or white. 
Calyx two-lipped ; lips entire. Banner erect, oval. Anthers 
linear. Legumes pedicelled, from twelve to eighteen inches 
long, and about as thick as a common quill, pointed, a little 
compressed ; the upper suture channelled, protuberant at, 
and intercepted between the seeds, but not in the _ ast 
ed. Seeds numerous, kidney-formed. 
The tender leaves and young legumes are much ose in 
nai by all classes of the natives. 
The tree is = for training the Betle * lan : (Piper 
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