ARACHIS (from a, without, and rachis, a branch; plant branchless). Ground or Earth Nut. ORD. Leguminosoe. A stove annual, of economical value. Corolla resupinate; calyx a long tube, with a bilabiate limb; ovary stipitate, inclosed in the tube of the calyx; the stipe at first short, but afterwards becoming elongated. Sandy loam is the soil most suitable for their cultivation. Seeds should be sown in heat; and, when the plants have grown to a sufficient size, they should be potted off singly, and placed among other stove annuals. After the plant has finished flowering, and the pods begin to lengthen, the pedicels force them into the earth, where they ripen their seeds. ARACHIS hypogaea (underground). Monkey Nut. fl. yellow, five to seven together in the axils of the leaves. May. l. abruptly-pinnate, bearing two pairs of leaflets, without any tendril; stipulas elongated, adnate to the petioles. h. 1ft., or procumbent. South America, 1812.