Pimseohis. diadrlphia decandria. 297 



with (ho seeds of the same cuhuiferous phints. Like black 

 pessa/on, it thrives the better by having- a few showers after 

 it is soM'ii. Its produce is also about thirty-fold. 



Cattle eat the straw of this, and it is reckoned very nou- 

 rishing" for thein. 



13. P. aureus. Ro.vb. 



Annual, diti\iso, round, hairy. Leaflets semi-cortlate, ex- 

 terior rhoinboidal. Horn of (he keel large, obtuse. Ler/umes 

 cylindric, straight, pendulous, hairy, torulose, with eight or 

 ten oval yellow seeds. 



BitKj. Sona Moog-. 



I have otdy found this plant in its cultivate<l state in Ben- 

 gal, I believe it is unknown to the Coroniandel coast. Seed- 

 time the close of the rains, in October or November. The 

 harvest is in February, when the plants perish. 



Root nearly simple, perpendicular. Stem very short, but 

 several spreading branches rest close on the ground, they are 

 from one to two feet long, round and hairy. Leaves long-pe- 

 tioled, ternate. I^eaflets, the pair semi-cordate, or nearly so, 

 the exterior one rhomboidal, all are entire, and a little hairy 

 on both sides, from two to three inches long, and from one 

 and a half to two broad. Petioles as long as the leaflets, 

 channelled, hairy. Stipules of the petiole adjoined, oblong, 

 those of the leaflets narrow lanceolate. Peduncles axillary, 

 solitary, in a rich soil often proliferous, by the time the seeds 

 are ripe they are about as long- as the petioles. Floicers 

 many, short-pedicelled, of a greenish yellow, livid on the out- 

 side, brighter within, ^rac^es three-fold, one-flowered, one 

 under the pedicel, and two pressing the calyx laterally, they 

 are all boat-shaped, acute and hairy. Calyx four-cleft, the 

 upper division broad, and emarginate. Carol as in the other 

 species with the horn of the carina large, and obtuse. le- 

 gumes reflexed, straight, acute, cylindric, torulose, as thick 

 as a quill, nbout two and a half inches long, black and hairy. 

 Seeds from six to twelve, small, smooth and yellow. 



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