JEschynomene.] 
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into two bundles of 5 each ; anthers reniforra. Ovary stipitate, with 2 or more 
ovules; style filiform or subulate. Pod stipitate, separating into 2 or more short, 
flat, usually indehiscent reticulate articles.— Herbs, undershrubs, or in non- 
Australian species shrubs. Leaves unequally pinnate, with small leaflets, without 
stipell®. Stipules free, flowers yellow, often streaked with red, in axillary or 
rarely terminal racemes. 
A considerable tropical genus, the species numerous in America, fewer in Africa, and only two 
in Asia. Of the three Australian ones, one is common in Asia and Africa, one in South America 
and South Africa, and the other in America. — Benth. (in part). 
Leaflets numerous. Stipules produced below their insertion. Calyx deeply 
2-lipped 1. JE. indica. 
Calyx 2-lipped. Leaflets 10 to 20 pairs 2. JE. americana. 
Leaflets 7 to 11. Stipules striate, persistent, not produced below their 
insertion. Calyx-lobes nearly equal 3. JE.falcata. 
1. JE. indica (Indian), Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 320 ; Benth. FI. Austr. ii. 226. 
A diffuse or erect annual of 1 to 2ft., or when luxuriant in very wet places 3ft. 
high, usually glabrous, but the stem occasionally bearing a few asperities. 
Leaflets usually 40 to 60, linear-oblong, obtuse, 2 to 3 or rarely 4 lines long. 
Stipules lanceolate, acute, produced below their insertion into a rounded 
appendage. Racemes shorter than the leaves, loosely 2 to 4-flowered, and often 
bearing a pinnate leaf below the flowers. Pedicels slender. Bracts like the 
stipules but often denticulate ; bracteoles short, persistent. Calyx about 2 lines 
long, deeply divided into 2 lips, the upper one 2-toothed, the lower shortly 
3-lobed. Petals about 4 lines long, glabrous ; keel much curved, almost acute. 
Pod on a long stipes, the upper suture straight, the lower slightly indented 
between the seeds ; articles about 2 lines long, glabrous, smooth or more or less 
warted or muricate in the centre. — W. and Arn. Prod. 219 ; Wight, Ic. t. 405 ; 
yE. cachemiriana, Camb. in Jacquem. Voy. 40, t. 48. 
Hab : Burdekin Kiver, Bowman, and many other parts in tropical Queensland. 
The species is widely spread over tropical Asia and Africa. 
2. JE. americana (American), Linn. Stems virgate, about 3ft., pilose, 
herbaceous or suffrutescent. Leaflets of from 10 to 20 pairs, oblong-linear, 
oblique at the base, mucronate, 3 to 4-nerved. Stipules calcarate. Racemes few- 
flowered. Flowers 3 lines long, yellow or purplish. Calyx bilabiate. Pod 
shortly stipitate, incurved, articles 2 to 8, half-round, rectilinear on the upper, 
roundish on the lower margin, glabrescent, li line diameter. — Griseb. FI. Brit. 
West Ind. Isl. 185. 
Hab.: Endeavour River, — Persieli (F. v. M.) 
3. JE. falcata (boomerang-shaped), DC. Prod. ii. 322 ; var. paueijuga, Benth. 
in Mart. FI. Bras. Papil. 67, t. 14, and FI. Austr. ii. 227. Stems from a woody 
stock diffuse, decumbent or ascending, often under 1ft. and rarely nearly 2ft. 
long, more or less pubescent. Leaflets 7 to 11, obovate-oblong or cuneate, 
truncate or emarginate, usually oblique at the base, and about 3 to 4 lines long. 
Stipules acute, striate, not produced below their insertion. Peduncles slender, as 
long as or longer than the leaves, mostly 2 or 3-flowered. Pedicels much longer 
than the calyx. Bracts and bracteoles small, striate. Calyx 1J line long, the 
lobes all equally divided, as long as the tube, the 2 upper ones rather broader. 
Standard 3 to 4 lines diameter ; wings broad ; keel much curved, almost rostrate. 
Pod on a slender stipes of 2 to 4 lines, sprinkled with short hairs, the upper 
suture nearly straight and continuous, the lower edge deeply indented between 
the seeds ; articles 4 to 6, 1^- to 2 lines diameter, opening in 2 valves on the lower 
edge and scarcely separating from each other. — zE. micrantha, DC. Prod. ii. 321 ; 
Harv. and Sond. FI. Cap. ii. 226, with all the synonyms there adduced. 
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