Tab. 7384. 

 sesbania exaspeeata. 



Native of tropical America. 



Nat. Ord. Leguminos*. — Tribe Galege/B. 

 Genus Sesbania, Pers.; (Benth. & Rook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 502.) 



Sesbania (Eusesbania) exasperata; fruticosa, ramis ramulisque acuta angulatis 

 glabris v. aculeolis minimis exasperatis, foliorum rache 6-8-pollicari, 

 foliolis 30-50-jagis oblongis lineari-oblongisve obtusis mucronatis ciliolatis 

 glaberrimisve, racemis longe pedunculatis 3-5-floribus, pedicellis g— § poll. 

 longis, bracteis subuiatis caducis, floribns amplis aureis, calycis tubo corolla 

 multotifs breviore turbinato dentibus triangulari-ovatis, vexillo orbi- 

 culari apice bilobo dorso creberrime punctato ungue intus 2-callosa, alis 

 oblongis vexillo paullo brevioribus, carinae petalis dolabriformibus alis 

 aequilongis sed multo latioribus, legumine 8-10-pollicari anguste lineari 

 recto bi-convexo longe rostrato polyspermo, seminibus £ poll, longis 

 oblongis, testa brunnea. 



S. exasperata, Hmnb. Bonpl. & Kunth Nov. Gen. & Sp. Amer. vol. vi. p. £34. 

 Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. vol. xv. pars. i. p. 42. Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 

 p. 184. 



S. macrocarpa, Mia. Meissn. et auct. plur. quoad, stirp. Austro-Americanam 

 (non Muhlb.). 



Lotus palustris, Veil. Fl. Flum. vol. vii. p. 137, text 315. 



A very widely distributed tropical American plant, from 

 Jamaica and other West Indian Islands, to South Brazil and 

 Paraguay, and from the coast to the Upper Amazon 

 river. Considering how very handsome its flowers are, it 

 is singular that it should not have been earlier introduced 

 into cultivation. Its habit is, no doubt, forbidding, for, 

 like the other shrubby Sesbaniese, it is of an unattractive 

 habit, and is poor in foliage. It is described in all works 

 as having an unspotted standard ; this may be from the 

 spots disappearing in dried specimens, or in poor varieties ; 

 but, as grown at Kew, the spots are a very attractive 

 character. The leaves are said to be sensitive. 



The plant figured was raised from seeds sent to the Royal 

 Gardens by Senor A. Sampaio, of San Paulo, in South 

 Brazil, which flowered in a greenhouse in April of this 

 year. 



Descr. — A glabrous shrub, eight to ten feet high (or 



November 1st, 1894. 



