330 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Aeschynometie. 



A laro-e cliuibins: slirul) ; a uativ^e of the extensive forests 

 among" tbe Circar mountains. 



Stem woody, climbing over trees, &c. Bark scabrous with 

 a o-ray roiighness. Leaves erect, alternate, pinnate with an 

 odd one, about nine inches long. Leaflets opposite, six pair, 

 oval, acute, entire, smooth ; two inches long, and one broad. 

 Petioles round, smooth. Stipules of the petioles and leaflets 

 awled, shorter than the leaves. Racemes axillary, erect; 

 many-llowered. /Jrac/es awled, one-flowered. Floivcrs nu- 

 merous, large, rose-coloured. Calyx slightly five-toothed. 

 Banner emarginate. Wings falcate. Nectary, a creimlat- 

 ed cup surrounding the base of the germ, as in some species 

 of Dolichos. Legumes straight, pendulous, from six to nine 

 inches long, and as thick as the fore finger, very protuberant 

 at the seeds, and peifectly compressed between them. Seeds 

 remote, from five to six, oblong. 



I do not know of any use to which any part of this plant is 

 put. 



AESCHYNOMENE. Schreb. gen. N. 1202. 



Calyx bilabiate. Filaments simple, nine-cleft. Legume 

 lono-, straight, slender and acute, with a partition between 

 the seeds. 



Note. So far dol agree with Gaertner in the division of this 

 genus, as to consider the only two species I have yet found 

 in India, with articulated legumes, Hedysarums. But the 

 other species with long, slender, torulose pods, intercepted 

 between the rather remote seeds (and void of every appear- 

 ance of a joint, or articulation between them) I shall consider 

 to belong to the family in which they have hitherto been 

 placed, but under an essential generic character considerably 

 altered. 



1. A. grandiflora. 



Unarmed, arboreous. Leaflets ten-paired. Peduncles from 



