Flemingia, DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA, 337 
what less than Paat, viz. Corchorus, Expense of cultivation, 
including land-rent, about nine Rupees, 
This is deemed the coarsest, though not the least durable of 
our Bengal substitutes for hemp. It is reckoned to be more 
durable i in the water, or for purposes where it is often wet, 
than either sun, or paat ; and is therefore universally: employ- 
ed for the drag ropes, and other cordage about fishing nets. 
The nets themselves are made of sun dwine, well tanned with 
the bark of a species of Rizophora, 
7. O. procumbens. R. 
Annual, diffuse, somewhat armed with inoffensive prickles, 
Leaflets minute, about twenty pairs. Peduncles axillary, 
short, from two to three-flowered. Legumes linear, erect, 
cuspidate. 
Teling. Manchi Jelooga. 
A native of Coromandel ; appearing on wet pasture land, 
borders of rice fields, &c. in the rainy season. 
FLEMINGLIA. R. 
Talye gg Stamina one, and ; nine, Legumes ses- 
sile, oval, turgid, two-val ved, one-celled, containing evnephey 
rical seeds, 
This genus assigned to the name of Dr, John Fieng; 
Physician General in Bengal, consists of shrubby Hedysa- 
rum-like | plants, natives of various parts of India. They are 
all perennial, the young shoots generally three-sided. 
_ Leaves ternate; Jeaflets three-nerved, Petioles more or 
Jess winged, opposite, scariose, Stipules as in the Hedysa- 
rums. Flowers on axillary, or terminal, simple or compound 
racemes or panicles, In all the corol is pink, striped with yel- 
lowish purple lines. The essential mark is in the sessile, tur- 
gid, oval legumes, with regularly two round seeds in each. — 
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