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ciliated margins: flowers solitary in each bract, small, orange-cd« 
Joured: legume 1-2-jointed, tumid in the middle, thin at the mars 
Bins. 
Very common in pasture lands. Courtallum. Malabar, in rice 
fields. 
GENUS XXVI. STYLOSANTHES. 
Monadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst : 
Deriv. From Stylos, a style, and Azthos, a flower, dlluding to 
the flower having a long style. 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx-tube very long, limb 5+partite: corolla ins 
serted on the throat of the tube of the calyx: keel small, 2-cleft at 
the apex: anthers alternately linear and ovate: style very long, 
Straight: stigma capitate, hispid: legume jointed, 1-seeded. 
(1) S. mucronata. “( Willd.) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 218,—Dec. prod, Il. p. 318. 
Syn. Arachis fruticosa, Retz. Roab. fl. Ind. III. p. 282,— 
Hedysarum hamatum, Burm. Ind. p. 167. 
Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. t. 106. f. 2.—Pluk. t. 69. f, 1. 
Spec. Cuar. Suffruticose, branched, hirsutely pubescent : leaves 
trifoliclate} leaflets oblong-ovate, mucronate, slightly bristle-ciliata 
ed, younger ones pubescently hairy beneath: flowers axillary, sesa 
sile, solitary, or forming terminal imbricated spikes, yellow. 
Coromandel, flowering in the rainy and cold season. 
GENUS XXVII. ASCHYNOMENE. 
Diadelphia Decandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv, From Aischuno, to be ashamed, in allusion to the sensia 
tiveness of the leaves. 
Gen. Ctrar. Herbs or shrubs: leaves unequally pinnated : ras 
eemes axillary: calyx 2-lipped, upper lip 2-cleft. or 2-toothed, 
lower 3-cleft or 3-toothed: corolla papilionacteous, inserted into the 
bottom of the calyx: keel boat-shaped, bipartite at the base: ‘stas 
mens 5 and 5: legumes compressed, straight, many-jointed ; joints 
square at both ends: seeds one in each joint. — 
(1) 4. aspera. (Linn.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p..219.—Dee. prod. TI. p. 320. 
Syn. AE. lagenaria, Lour.-Hedysarum lagenarium, Road. fi. 
Ind. IIL. p. 365. : : 
- Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 299. 
