336 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Aeschynomene.- 
marked with purple dots on the outside. Wings obovate, 
oblong, obtuse, yellow. Keel obtuse, daggered behind. Fi- 
laments alternately shorter, simple, and nine-cleft. Anthers 
round, incumbent, Germ cylindric, smooth. Stigma emar- 
ginate. Legume tending to be pendulous, from six to nine 
inches Jong, linear, somewhat angular, about as thick as a 
very slender quill, many-seeded. Seeds sub-cylindric, smooth, 
of a light brownish colour. 
Cultivation of the Dhunchi plant, Zeschynomene Canna. 
bina, Kon, in Retz. Obs. v. 26. Coronilla Cannabina. Willd. 
MLAB y: > 
The soil generally employed for this plant about Calcutta, 
is wet and considerably lower than what is necessary for Cor- 
chorus olitorius and capsularis, and Crotalaria juncea.* — 
The preparation of the ground need not be so much attended | 
to, as the plant is hardy, and the growth so rapid, as to des- 
troy or keep down weeds of all kinds very completely. This, 
together with the crop being considered a meliorating one, 
renders it advantageous, notwithstanding the cheapness of the 
material. The time of sowing is when the soil has been mois- 
tened with the showers which fall during the storms called 
north-westers in May, which correspond with the tornados on 
the west coast of Africa. About fifteen seers, or thirty pounds, 
of seed to the acre is generally allowed, and less attention is 
paid to the weeding than is necessary for Corchorus. In 
September and October the crop is ready to cut, though the 
fibre does not suffer if left standing till the seed is ripe in No. 
vember. The process of steeping and cleaning the fibre, | 
is exactly similar to that already described for Crota 
juncea, 
_ The general produce of an acre is from one hundred, to one 
thousand pounds of ill cleaned fibre ; the — —- — 
* See the method of cultivating those” plants in the Fourth Ree sg 
port of the African Institution and in the diapers i 
alias of Arts, vol. xxii. and xxiv. aa Jee 
