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Spec. Cuan. Perennial, hérbacédus, erect, floating, spongy ¢ 
leaflets 30-40 pair, linear: racemes few-flowered ; peduncles and 
pedicels hairy: corolla much longer than the calyx; legumes long~ 
stalked, 4~7-jointed, with prickly tubercles on each joint: flowers 
brownish-orange. 
Corvinandel. Bebgal. Silhet. Assam. Courtallum. Flower- 
ing in the rainy season. The plants are gathered during April and’ 
May aid converted by the natives into toys, floats, hats, &c. It is. 
the Sola of Bengal, from which pith hats are manufactured. 
(2) A. Invica. (Linn) 
Fdent. W. & A. prod. I. p. 219.—Dec. prod. II. p. 820. 
Syn. Hedysarum Nali Tali, Roxb. fl. Ind. TIL. p. 365.—AE: 
pumila, Linn. Dec. prod. I. p. 321.—. diffusa, Willd. Dec. l. c. 
Engrav. Rheede Mal. IX. t. 18.—Wight’s Icon. t. 405. 
Spec. Cuar. Annual, procurnbent; branchés slender, spreading- 
on the ground : leaflets 15-20 pair, linear, obtuse: peduncles axil-. 
lary, slender, few-flowered: legumes long-stalked, 6-—10-jointed,, 
rough with warts when ripe: flowers pale-yellow. 
Cotomandel. Bombay. Flowering in the rainy season. 
(3) AE. supviscosa. (Dec.) 
Ident. Deé. prod. II. p. 321. 
Syn. ZE. Roxburghii, Spr.—Smithia aspera, Rowb. fl. Ind, T.. 
p. 343. 
Spec. Cuan. Herbaceous, eréct, tubercled ;- leaflets linear, ob- 
tuse, glabrous: peduncles usually 2-flowered, which, with the le- 
gumes are usually covered with glandular hairs; flowers middle- 
sized, bright-yellow.. 
Bengal, floweririg in the rainy season. 
GENUS XXVIII. SMITHIA. 
Monadelphia Deeandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Called after Sir J. Smith, founder of the Linnzean Soe. 
ciety, and author of the English Flora. 
Gen. Cuan. Procumbent, herbaceous plants, with abruptly. pin-. 
nated leaves: racemes axillary: calyx scariose, bipartite, with 2. 
bractédles at the base: corolla papilionacéous, inserted into the 
bottom of the calyx: keel cleft from the base to near the apex :. 
stamens equally monadelphious (5 and 5): legumés 4-6-jointed,. 
folded up within the calyx, much. contracted between the joints; 
joints 1-seeded, orbicular. 
