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what less than Paat, viz. Corchorvs. Expense of cultivation, 

 incliulino- land-ronf, about uIup Rupees. 



This is deemed the coarsest, though not the least durable of 

 our Bengal substitutes for hemp. It is reckoned to be more 

 durable in the water, or for purposes where it is often wet, 

 than either mm, or paat ; and is therefore universally employ- 

 ed for the drag- ropes, and other cordage about fishing- nets. 

 The nets themselves are made of sun twine, well tanned with 

 the bark of a species of Rizophora. 



7. O. procnmbens. /?. 



Annual, diffuse, somewhat armed with inoffensive prickles. 

 Leaflets minute, a])out twenty pairs. Peduncles axillary, 

 short, from two to three-flowered. Lerjumes linear, erect, 

 cuspidate. 



Telintj. Mancli?* Jeloog'a. 



A native of Coromandel ; appearing- on wet pasture land, 

 borders of rice fields, &.c. in the rainy season. 



FLEMINGIA. R. 



Ca/yx five-cleft. jS'<am?'na one, and nine. Lef/umes ses- 

 sile, oval, turgid, two-valved, one-celled, containing two sphe- 

 rical seeds. 



This g^enus assigned to the name of Dr. John Fleming, 

 Physician General in Bengal, consists of shrubby Hedi/sa- 

 rwm-like plants, natives of various parts of India. They are 

 all perennial, the young- shoots generally three-sided. 



Leaves ternate; leaflets three-nerved. Petioles more or 

 less winged, opposite, scariose. Stipules as in the Hedijsa- 

 rums. Floioers on axillary, or terminal, simple or compound 

 racemes or panicles. In all the corol is pink, striped with yel- 

 lowish purple lines. The essential mark is in the sessile, tur- 

 gid, oval legumes, with regularly two round seeds in each. 

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