Doodia. DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 305 
* 37. H. lagenarium. R. 
Perennial, floating, spongy, leaflets numerous, Stipules 
lanceolar, adjoined. Peduncles about two-flowered, joints 
‘ of the legume from four to six, scabrous in the middle, 
_ Aeschynomene lagenaria. Lour, Cochin Ch, 446. 
Aeschynomene aspera, Willd, iii, 1163. 
Hind. and Beng. Shola and Phool shola. 
Teling. Neerjeelooza. 
Common on the borders of lakes of sweet water in most 
parts of India. Flowering time the rainy and cool seasons. 
The larger plants are particularly light, white and spongy ; 
they are gathered during the dry months of April and May, 
and converted by the natives of Bengal into a great variety 
of toys, floats for fishing nets, gentlemen’s hats, &c. 
38. H. Neli-tali. R. 
Herbaceous, diffuse and scabrous. Leaflets numerous, mi- 
nute. Stipules lanceolar, adjoined. Legumes from six to ten- 
jointed, smooth on both sides, 
Neli-tali. Rheed, Mal. ix. t. 18, 
| -Teling. Tiga jeelooga. 
. Aeschynomene Indica, Willd. iii. p. 1164, 
. Found on moist pasture ground, during the rainy an 
DOODIA. R.* 
Calyx bilabiate; upper lip bifid ; under tripartite, in the 
mature state resupine, by the incurvation of the upper end of 
the pedicel. Loment moniliform, composed of from two to 
six sub-globular, one-seeded joints, slenderly connected and 
compactly folded up within the subulate hairy segments of 
the calyx. 
The vient sahick fall are the dance character have the 
* inside Me Semel Dey, an eninent Boa, 
fiend so soem of Hey. Phsbenets and Shae r. 
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