332 DiADELPHiA DECANDRiA. Aeschyuomeiie, 



betel), it admits of the sun's beams, and the wind, better 

 than any other olits height, being thin of branches and leaves, 

 particularly after it is more than one year old. It is of a very 

 quick growth, which is another reason for employing it. The 

 wood is only fit for fuel. Cattle eat the leaves and tender 

 parts. 



2. A. sesban. 



Unarmed, arboreous. Lea/lets about fifteen pair. Racemes 

 pendulous. Ler/umes filiform, pendulous. 



Kedangu. Rheed. Mai. vi. t. 27. 



Emerus. Burm. Zeyl, #.41. 



Suns. J«y^^nti. See Asiat. Res, iv. p. 297. 



Beng. Jwywuti. 



Coronilla sesban. Willd. iii. 1147. 



If the true Sesban has an articulate legume, as stated by the 

 accurate Vahl, (Symb. i. p. 54.J this cannot be it. 



Teling. Sz/iminta. 



This small beautiful tree is in general found in the vicini- 

 ty of villages, and is likewise of few years' duration. Flow- 

 ers chiefly during the wet and cold seasons. 



Trunk erect, about eight feet high. Bark cracked. 

 Branches numerous, extremities twiggy, and often bowing. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate, from four to six inches long. Leaf- 

 lets opposite, from ten to twenty pair, linear-obtuse, smooth, 

 entire, about an inch long, and one-third of an inch broad. 

 Stipules very acute, reflexed. Racemes axillary, pendulous, 

 from eight to twelve-flowered. Flowers large; of a beautiful 

 dark purple with yellow spots. 



There is a variety of this tree with yellow flowers which is 

 not so elegant as the above described. I have also seen ano- 

 ther with red flowers. 



The wood is said to make the very best charcoal for gun- 

 powder. 



