Aeschynomene. diadelphia decandria. 833 



3. A. spinnlosa. Roxb. 



Annual, sub-ligneoui!i, erect; armed with inoffensive 

 prickles. Leaflets from twenty to forty pair ; petioles armed 

 on the under side. Legumes erect, filiform. 



Coronilla oruleaia. Wil/d. iii. 1147. 



Telhig. Yerra-Jelooga. 



A large shrubby-like annual, growing to be four or five 

 feet high. It appears in rice fields during the rainy season. 

 Flowers in December and January. 



Stem erect, woody, annual. Branches remote, slender; 

 hark reddish, covered with many small, inoflfensive prickles. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate, from three to twelve inches long. 

 Leaflets opposite, numerous, i. e. forty pair, linear, obtuse 

 with a minute bristle, smooth, half or three quarters of an inch 

 long, and one-eighth broad. Petioles armed on the under side 

 with inoffensive prickles, like those of the stem and branches. 

 Stipules linear, very sharp, falling. Racemes axillary, many 

 times shorter than the leaves, spreading. Flowers few, yellow, 

 middle sized. Legumes erect, sharp-pointed, about as thick 

 as a pack thread, and eight or nine inches long, protuberant 

 at the seed, but not jointed. Seeds kidney-form. 



4. A. paludosa. Roxh. 



Annual, sub-ligneous, erect. Leaflets from ten to twenty 

 pair. Racemes longer than the leaves, drooping, many- 

 flowered. Legumes linear, pendulous. 



Beiig. Kathsola. 



This is a very large annual species ; it has the appearance 

 of an elegant tree, often twelve feet high, is a native of wet 

 marshy places about Calcutta ; it appears during the rains. 



Root annual, spindle-formed, with some few lateral 

 branches. Stem erect, ramous ; all the parts under water are 

 much swelled and are there of an exceeding light spongy 

 texture, but not piped ; these parts emit numerous, ramous, 

 filiform roots, from every part, and except for the insertions 

 of those radicles the bark is continuous, smooth, and green in 



