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Aeschynomene. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 333 
3. A. spinulosa, Roxb. . 
Annual, sub-ligneous, erect; armed with inoffensive 
prickles. Leaflets from twenty to forty pair ; petioles armed 
on the under side. Legumes erect, filiform, 
-Coronilla aculeata, Willd. iii, 1147. 
Teling. Yerra-Jelooga, 
A large shrubby-like annual, growing to be four or five 
feet high, It appears in rice fields during the rainy season. 
Flowers in December and January. 
Stem erect, woody, annual. Branches remote, slender; 
bark reddish, coyered with many small, inoffensive prickles, 
Leaves ‘abruptly pinnate, from three to twelve inches long. 
Leaflets opposite, numerous, 7. e. forty pair, linear, obtuse 
with a minute bristle, smooth, half or three quarters of an inch 
long, and one-eighth broad. Petioles armed on the under side 
with inoffensive prickles, like those of the stem and branches. 
Stipules linear, very sharp, falling. Racemes axillary, many 
times shorter than the leaves, spreading. Flowers few, yellow, 
middle sized, Legumes erect, sharp-pointed, about as thick 
as a pack thread, and eight or nine inches long, protuberant 
at the seed, but not jointed. Seeds kidney-form. 
4, A. paludosa., Roxb. er 
Annual, sub-ligneous, erect. Leaflets from ten to twenty 
- pair. Racemes longer than the leaves, drooping, many- 
flowered. Legumes linear, pendulous. 
Beng. Kathsola. 
_ This isa very large annual species; it has the appearance 
of an elegant tree, often twelve feet high, is a native of wet 
“marshy places about Calcutta; it appears during the rains, 
Root annual, spindle-formed, with some few lateral 
branches, Stem erect, ramous ; all the parts under water are 
much swelled and are there of an exceeding light spongy 
texture, but not piped; these parts emit numerous, ramous, 
filiform roots, from every part, and except for the insertions 
of those radicles the bark is continuous, smooth, and green in 
