282 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Gracilis. 



that the flowers are most perfectly sessile, two, three, or four 

 in the axills of the leaves, and that the germ is lodged in the 

 very base of the tube of the calyx. Soon after the flower 

 decays the germ acquires pedicels, after which it lengthens 

 fast, it then enters the earth, and when the legume is perfectly 

 formed, it will generally be found as deep in the earth as when 

 full grown, 1 therelbre conceive that it bnries itself to its great- 

 est depth before the seeds begin to enlarge, and while the 

 germ is only an obtuse point. 



The uses of the seed of this plant, are too universally 

 known to render any account of them necessary in this place. 



2. A. fruticom. Retz. Obs. iv. N. 67. 



Trifolium procumbens. Burm. Zeyl. p. 206. t. 106.^. 2. 

 bad. 



Slylosanthes 7n?/crow«^cr. Willd. iii. 1166. 



Teling. Saillee-k?<mpa. 



This small, spreading, ramous, under shrub, is now com- 

 mon in the Botanic garden at Calcutta, first reared from seed 

 sent by the Rev. Dr. John at Tranquebar. The plant is in- 

 digenous in Ceylon. Leaves alternate, ternate. Leajlets 

 ovate, acuminate, slightly ciliate; scarcely half an inch long*. 

 Petioles at the base enlarged into a sagittate, stem-clasping 

 sheath, which ends in two lateral acute points, one on each 

 side. Flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, or in small terminal 

 strobiliform heads. Bractes one-flowered. Calyx; tube 

 lono", slender, villous ; border five-parted, the inferior divisi- 

 on lengthened. Corols papilionaceous. The petals inserted 

 partly on the base of thick fleshy staminiferious tubes, and 

 partly on the mouth of the tube of the calyx. Filaments 

 ten united into one tube at the base, with only the appear- 

 ance of a fissure on the upper side. Anthers alternately 

 linear, and ovate. Crer/w oblong, lodged in the base of the 

 tube of the perianth. Style long, slender, passing through 

 the whole tube of the calyx, elevating the acute stigma 



