Mierocharis.} XLVII. § PAPILIONACEZ (BAKER). 138 
the outer side. Leaves subsessile, subcoriaceous, the lower ones obovate- 
oblong, 2 in. lone, 1 in. broad. Racemes about 6-flowered, either 
truly axillary on short peduncles or terminal on short branches from 
the axils of the leaves. Calyx under } line, copiously hispid. Corolla 
+ inch. Pod not seen. 
Mozamb. Distr. Zambesi-land, on the riverbank near Luabo, Dr. Kirk! 
25. SESBANIA, Pers.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 502. 
Calyx broadly campanulate, with short subequal teeth. Petals all 
distinctly unguiculate ; standard large, emarginate orbicular; wings 
oblong; keel incurved, obtuse. Stamens diadelphous; anthers uni- 
form or nearly so. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, multiovulate , 
style glabrous, incurved; stigma capitate. Pod linear, compressed, 
or terete or tetragonous or 4-winged, usually dehiscing—Herbs or 
sott-wood shrubs of brief duration with very numerous leaflets and 
flowers in axillary racemes. 
A small genus dispersed through the Tropics of both hemispheres, many of the 
Species very closely allied and difficult to define. 
Suscenus 1, Eusesbania.—Pod not winged. 
Valves of the pod rounded on the back. 
Corolla 8-9 lines long. 
Shrubby, with peduncled lax racemes . 
Annual, with subsessile abbreviated racemes . 
Corolla 6-7 lines long. ; 
Branches finely downy ; lower pedicels 6—9 lines long. 
Branches glabrous; lower pedicels 2-4 lines long. 
Shrubby whined ek ea 
Annual, with prickly branches and leaf-rachis 
Corolla 4-5 lines long. 
Branches and young leaves densely grey-silky . 
Branches and young leaves glabrous Stee 
Valves of the pod acutely keeled on the back . 
Suneexus 2. Daubentonia.—Pod with 4 broad wings . 
. S. punctata. 
. S. pachycarpa. 
S. cinerascens. 
. S egyptiaca. 
. S. aculeata. 
. S. pubescens. 
. S. leptocarpa. 
. S. spherosperma. 
9, 8. tetraptera. 
2ND ok DO We 
1. S. punctata, DC. Prod. ii. 265. An erect, copiously branched 
glabrous glaucous shrub 5-10 ft. high. Petioles 6—9 lines, sometimes 
slightly prickly, upper leaves 38-8 in. long ; leaflets 20—50-jugate, Just 
like those of s, egyptiaca. Peduncles 12-18 lines. Racemes lax, 6—12- 
owered, casually compound. Lower pedicels 6—9 lines. Calyx 2 lines, 
broadly cam anulate, glabrous, the deltoid cuspidate teeth a quarter the 
ength of the tube. Corolla 8-9 lines long, the standard 8-9 lines 
broad, bright yellow, much spotted with purple, Pod 8-12 in. long, 
2-24 lines thick, 30-40-seeded, not torulose when mature, the valves 
rounded on the back.—S. filiformis, Hochst. in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. No. 
(¢9. 8, multijuga, Schweinf. Hb. Callab. Exsice, No. 1869. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur! Heudelot! Guinea proper, Barter ! 
North Central. Bornu and Soudan, Z. Vogel! . 
Nile Land. Nubia, Kordofan, and Sennaar, Knoblecher, &c. Abyssinia, 
umper! &c. 
