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Aeschynomene, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 335 
_ Note, The parts under water are swelled, like those of the 
last’ described species. It differs from O, procumbens, in hay- - 
ing twice the number of leaflets to the leaf, and more than 
twice the number of flowers on the raceme. 
* 6. 0. Cannabina of Konig. See Retz. Obs. v. 26. 
Annual, straight. Leaflets from twenty to forty pair, Ra- 
cemes axillary, few-flowered. Legumes long, slender, some- 
what four-sided. 
-Coronilla Cannabina, Willd. iii. 1148, 
"Beng. Dhanchi. 
An annual species which [have not found wild. It is cul- 
tivated in various parts of Bengal for the fibres of its bark, 
which form a coarse substitute for hemp. The general seed 
time is in April ; itis in flower four or five months after, 
Root ramous, annual in a cultivated state, Stem simple, from 
six to twelve feet high, and about as thick as the little finger, 
smooth, towards the base somewhat woody, ramous near the 
top only, the most tender shoots are slightly striated, and a 
little hairy. — Leaves sub-sessile, alternate, spreading in the 
day, pinnate, from six to twelve inches long, Leaflets from 
twenty to forty pair, opposite, rarely alternate, short-petioled, — 
exactly linear, rounded at both ends, with a bristle-like point, _ 
having the upper side smooth, and the under one pale, with a 
few white hairs, from an inch to an inch and a half long, and 
about a quarter of an inch broad, Petioles slightly channel- 
led, and a little hairy, with a swelled base. Stipules of the 
leaf half-lanced, falling ; those of the leaflets awled, perma- 
nent. Racemes axillary, peduncled, solitary, shorter than the 
the leaves they accompany, bearing from two to six pedicel- 
Jed, nodding flowers. Flowers about the size of a pea blossom, 
yellow, with many dark purple spots. Bractes of the pedi- 
cels solitary, boat-shaped, hairy, caducous; those of the flow- 
er two, linear, pressing on'the calyx, caducous, Calyx gib- 
bous, five-toothed, sub-equal. Corol papilionaceous. Ban- 
ner obcordate, bright yellow on. the inside, and beautifully. 
