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Caf^o; under ^ in. long. Corolla fugacious, twice the calyx. Pod 

 -Ij in. long, straight or rather curv^ed ; upper suture straight, lower more or lessdis- 

 inctly indented ; joints 6-10, ^-^ in. broad, smooth or finally papillose on the face* ^ 



. aspera, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 320; stems rol)ust simple or little- 

 branched, peduncles calyx and large coroUa hispid. W. ^- A, Prodr, 219 ; Wt 

 Ic. t. 299. M. indica, Wall Cat, 5667, nan Linn. Hedysarum lagena- 

 rium, Roxb. Sort. Beng. 57 ; FL Ind. iii. 865. M. indica, /3 aspera, Hassh PI 

 Jav. Mar. 340. ^. traehyloba, Miq. Flor. Ind, Bat. i. 276. 



Tropical Zone ; Bengal and Silhet to Malacca and Ceylon. — Distrib. Malay 

 isles, Tropical Africa. 



A tall erect swamp species, with stout glabrous main stems, full of white pith. Sti- 

 pides linear or lanceolate, auricled, deciduous; leaf-rachis 3-6 in. long; leaflet^ 

 61-101, linear, obtuse, 1-nerved. BaccTiies corymbose, 2-4-flowered ; pedicels and 

 peduncles clothed with spreading bristles. Calyx # in., with a pair of round hracteoles. 

 Corolla twice the calyx. T^^*^ 9— 9i in 1w iin • inmt« .*?_« Rmootli or er^hinate on the 

 feces over the seeds. 



Pod 2~2\ in, by ^ in. ; joints 3-6, smooth or echinate 



M, sxjEATTENSis, W. ^ A, Prodv. 219, is altogether doubtful, the description being 

 probably taken in part from Sesbania aculeala. 





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Shrubs. Leaves with odd-pinnate exstipellate leaflets and persistent striated 

 stipules and bracts. Flowers in lax racemes. CaZy.r-tube campanulate ; 2 upp^ 

 teeth deltoid ; 3 lower lanceolate. Standard broad ; keel much incurved^ not at 

 all beaked. Stamens in two bundles of 5 each ; anthers uniform. Ovary linear^ 

 few-OYuled ; style filiform, inflexed, stigma minute terminal. Pod of a few ind^ 

 hiscent tiu'gid linear or oblong joints, the lower seedless, the faces rugose, naked 

 or muricated with weak gland-tipped prickles. — Disthib. Species 6, spread all 

 roxmd the world in the tropics. 



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1. O. Bennoides, I)C. Prodr. ii. 315 ; Wall. Cat. 5058 ; W. 4" A. Frodr. 

 216 ; Wt. Ic. t. 297. O. coronilloides, G. Bon Gen. Si/st. ii. 279. Hedysarum 

 sennoides, Willd. ; Iio.vb. Hort. Beng. 57 : Fl. Ind. iii. 364. r,. 



Plains of the AVestern Piinixsijla and Ceylon. — DisTmii. Siam, Philippines, Poly- 

 nesia, Trop. Africa. /^ 



A low shrub, with terete slender branches, the branchlets and leaf-rachis viscia. 

 Leaflets 9-17, alternate, oblong, obtuse, membranous, deciduous. Flowers 2-^).^ 

 copious short-peduncled axillary corymbose racemes ; bracts spreading, minute, deltoid; 

 pedicels viscid, as long as ailyx. Calpx \ in. CoroUa yellow, much cxserted. Pod "vntb 

 2-4 joints, linear or oblong, i-1 in. long, horizontally plicate, smooth or muricated. 



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Diffuse pei-ennial herbs. Lem^es simple or pinnately S-foliolate, stipellate. 

 Bracts large, imbricated. Flowers small, crowded in dense terminal racem^^ 

 beads. Calyx with a very short tube, and 5 subequal setaceous teeth. CoroUfi 

 minute, included ; standard broad ; keel obtuse. Stamens diadelphons ; antbers 

 imiform. Ovary sessile, 1-ovuled ; style long, filiform, incurved, stigma capitate. 

 Pod small, obloi%, membranous, flattened, 1-seeded, opening widely along the 

 ventral sutiu-e.— Distbib. Two species, the other a nlant of Madairascar. 



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