280 DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. Avachis. 



to four inches long, and from half an inch to an inch broad ; 

 the inferior ones smaller. Petioles as long as the largest leaf- 

 lets, three-sided, with a groove on the upper side. Stipules 

 reflexed. Racemes terminal, long, erect, many-flowered. 

 Bractes single, one-flowered, lanceolate. Flowers large, yel- 

 low. Stamens and anthers as in the genus ; the round anthers 

 are here nearly twin, so much are their lobes divided. 



ARACHIS. Schreh. gen. N. 1177. 

 Perianth with a long filiform tube, supporting the corol, 

 and stamina, or its mouths. Corol papilionaceous. Fila- 



vients connected in one tube (a groove.) but no fissure on the 



• 

 back. 



1. A. hypogea. WillcL iii. 1346. 



Annual, diftuse. Leaves twice paired. Legumes growing 

 under the surface of the ground. 



Chamsebalanus japonica. Rumph, Amb. v. t. 150./. 2. 



Hind. Moong-phullee. 



This very useful and common plant is to be found in all 

 the warmer parts of Asia. Though in Bengal it appears to 

 be rather scarce, nor have the natives any name for it, though 

 those of other provinces have. It is also universally known 

 in Europe, yet a full and accurate description with figures 

 seems still to be wanting. Its parts of fructification appear to 

 me to have been overlooked by every Botanical writer I have 

 yet met with, on that account 1 have been obliged to give it a 

 ncAV essential generic character and its natural character at 

 full length, from Avhich it will be seen that this plant is in fact 

 a Stylosanthes. However as its present generic name, 

 Arachis, is so universally known, 1 think it will be better to 

 continue it, and to place the only species of Stylosanthes 

 known to me with it ; for they clearly make but one genus. 

 1 have at this instant both the living plants before me in high 

 perfection, and after repeated examination, can safely say 



