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tile, but two coloured. Legume straight, from ten to fif- 

 teen seeded. 



A native of Nepal, from thence seeds were sent by Dr. 

 Buchanan, to the Botanic garden at Calcutta, where the 

 plants thrive luxuriantly, and are in blossom and seed 

 most part of the year. It is a beautiful, delicate species. 



Root sometimes biennial. Stems and branches straight ; 

 the lower parts round, and smooth, the superior and more 

 tender parts clothed with a few curved hairs ; the gene- 

 ral height of the plants in the Botanic garden is about 

 three feet. Leaves alternate, bifarious, pinnate, from two 

 to three inches long. Leaflets numerous, serailanceolate, 

 smooth. Glands a pretty large one between, or rather 

 under the lower pair of leaflets. Stipulets fine taper-point- 

 ed. Peduncles solitary, rather above the axils, very 

 short, each producing in succession, three or four long- 

 pedicelled, small, yellow flowers. Stamina four or five, 

 all fertile, two of the anthers are always coloured. Stigma 

 large, w4th a sharp ciliate margin. Legumes straight, 

 smooth, containing from six to twelve, or even fifteen 

 seeds. 



21. S. sensitiva. R. 



Perennial, procumbent. Leaflets minute, from forty to 

 fifty pairs. Peduncles from one to two flowered. Stamens 

 ten, all fertile. Legumes straight, many-seeded. 



A small, elegant, procumbent plant, growing on pas- 

 ture ground. It flowers during the wet season. 



Root perennial. Stems or branches many, procumbent, 

 alternate, bifarious, a little hairy, with the extremities 

 ascending, from twelve to eighteen inches long. Leaves 

 pinnate, alternate, bifarious, from one to two inches long. 

 Leaflets from thirty to sixty pairs, minute, obliquely- 

 oblong, pointed. Glands, a round, peltate, sessile one be- 

 tween the lowest pair of leaflets. Petioles upper side ridg- 

 ed, notched, with a minute bristle in each of the notches 



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