ON SELECT INDIAN PLANTS. 307 



Linn, jEschynomene Sesban. 



Cal. Perianth one-leaved, rather belled, five-cleft; 



toothlets awled, erect, sub-equal, more distant on each 



side of the awning; permanent. 



Cor. Boat-form. 



Awning very broad, rather longer than the wings, 

 inverse-hearted, quite reflected so as to touch the 

 calyx : waved on the margin ; furrowed at the 

 base internally, with two converging hornlets 

 fronting the aperture of the keel, gibbous below, 

 awled upwards, acute, erect, within the wings. 

 Whigs oblong, clawed, narrower above, obtuse, 

 spurred below, embracing the keel and the hornlets 

 of the awning. 



Keel compressed, enclosing the fructification, inflec- 

 ted nearly in a right angle, gashed below and 

 above the flexure; each division hatchet-form; 

 beautifully striated. 



Stam. Filaments simple and nine-cleft, inflected like 

 the keel; the simple one curved at the base. An- 

 tliers oblong, roundish.. 



Pist. Germ compressed, linear, erect as high as the 

 flexure of the filaments with visible partitions. 

 Style nearly at a right angle with the germ, awled, 

 inflected like the stamen. Stigma rather headed, 

 somewhat cleft, pellucid. 



Per. Legume very long, slender, wreathed when 

 ripe, smooth at the valves, but with seeds ra- 

 ~ ther protuberant, many-parted, terminated with a 

 hard sharp point. 



Seeds oblong, rather kidney-shaped, smooth, slight- 

 ly affixed to the suture, solitary. 



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