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two to three-flowered, pendulous. Calyx of two entire lips. 

 Legumes pendulous, very long, linear; the vpper margin 

 broad and channelled, many-seeded. 



CoroniWii ffrayid'tjlora. W'dld. iii. 1145. 



Agati. nhced. Mai. i. t. 51. 



Sails. B//ka. 



Beng. Buka, also Augast«. 



Hind. Basna the red- flowered variety, and Sada basna the 

 white. 



Tarn. Agati. 



Teling. Yerra avesi the name of the red-flowered variety, 

 Telia avesi the white-flowered. 



A small, delicate, but high, viz. from twenty to thirty feet, 

 tree of only a few years' duration. It is generally found in 

 the vicinity of villages, where the natives encourage its 

 growth, for the sake of the leaves and tender pods which they 

 use in their curries. It is in flower and fruit most part of the 

 year. 



Trunk straight, from ten to twelve feet high. Bark pretty 

 smooth. Branches thinly scattered. Leaves alternate-abruptly 

 pinnate, from six to nine inches long. Leaflets opposite, from 

 eioht to twelve pairs, linear-oblong, obtuse, entire, smooth, 

 of a whitish-green, about an inch long, and three-eighths 

 broad. Stipules of the petioles half lanced, caducous ; those 

 of the leaflets minute. Peduncles axillary, short, somewhat 

 downy, from two to four-flowered ; />erf?ce/s peduncle-like. 

 Bractes minute, falling. Floxcers very large, red or white. 

 Calijx two lipped ; lips entire. Banner erect, oval. Anthers 

 linear. Legumes pedicelled, from twelve to eighteen inches 

 long, and about as thick as a common rpiill, pointed, a little 

 compressed ; the upper suture channelled, protuberant at, 

 and intercepted between the seeds, but not in the least joint- 

 ed. Seeds numerous, kidney-formed. 



The tender leaves and young legumes are much used in 

 food, by all classes of the natives. 



The tree is employed for training the Betle plant (Piper 



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