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axillary, slender, few-flowered ; flowers pale-yellow ; legumes long- 

 stalked, 6 to 10-jointed, warty when ripe. Common about Surat. 

 Syn. Hedysarum nalitali, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 365 ; Rheede Mai. ix, 

 t. 18 ; Ae. pumila, Linn. sp. 1061 ; DC. Prod. 2, 321 ; Ae. diffusa, 

 Willd. sp. p 1 164. 



Note. — Aeschynomene aspera, Linn., is the Sola of Bengal, from which 

 sun-hats are manufactured. 



4. SMITHIA, Alton. 



1. S HiRSUTA, Dalz. in Hook. .lour. Bot. iii, p 135. — Annual 

 erect 1 1 foot high, stem and branches hirsute, with spreading yellow 

 hairs ; leaflets 3 to 4 pair, obovate cuneate, unequal-sided, ciliate 

 on the margin ; flowers between capitate and racemose ; peduncles 

 longer than the leaf, 10-flowered; calyx sparingly covered with 

 long hairs, upper segment cuneate truncate emarginate, lower 

 cuneate obovate entire ; flowers yellow. Foonda Ghaut ; flowers in 

 September. 



2. Sknsitiva, Ait. Hort. Kew. iii, 496. — Leaves 3 to 6 pair, 

 oval obtuse, glabrous, with ciliated margins and midrib ; flowers 

 forming a sessile or peduncled short raceme ; calyx segments 

 striated oblong lanceolate, upper entire, lower sometimes 3-toothed 

 at the apex ; legume 4 to 6-jointed, warted. It is var. with the 

 racemes sessile 2-flowered ; that is common. The S geminiflora of 

 Roth. nov. sp. p 352 ; DC. Prod. 2, 323 ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 342. 

 Eaten as a pot-herb. Smithia conferta, Sm. DC. Prod. 2, 323. 



3. Racemosa, Heyne in Wall, list No. 5670. — Leaflets cuneate 

 oblong retuse, bristly on the margin ; flowers forming a peduncled 

 short raceme; pedicels and calyx glandular and hairy, upper lip of 

 calyx broad truncated, slightly emarginate, lower shortly 3-cleft ; 

 legume 4-jointed, slightly warted. Near Belgaum. 



4. Capitata, Dalz. in Hook, Jour. Bot. iii, p 208. (non Desv.) — 

 Stem glabrous branched ; leaflets 9 to 1 5 pair, linear oblong 

 obtuse ciliated, common petiole hispid; stipules adnate ovate 

 lanceolate, terminated by a bristle ; flowers in a spherical head, 

 numerous, terminal; peduncles glabrous, shorter than the leaf; 

 bracts obovate lanceolate as long as the calyx ; calyx glabrous, 

 reticulately veined, the lips rounded undivided-toothed, the teeth 

 long and bristly; legumes smooth, joints 6 to 7. Parwar Ghaut; 

 flowers in October. 



5. Setulosa, Dalz. loc. cit. — 3 to 4 feet high ; stem dichoto- 

 mously branched, hispid, with small bristles ; leaflets 5 to 7 pair, 

 linear oblong obtuse, glabrous, ciliated on the margin ; common 

 petiole hispid ; stipules adnate, with a long bristly acumination ; 

 flowers in a terminal leafless panicle ; calyx striated, the lips quite 



