212 LEGUMINOS ( Harv.) [Sesbania. 
nating the lesser twigs, 4-5 inches long, ovate in outline, densely branched ; branches 
alternate, racemose. Peduncle, pedicels and calyx clothed with minute, glossy, ap- 
pressed, deep brown hairs. Flowers purple. Vexillary stamen free at base, coher- 
ing above. 
XXXIV. SESBANIA, Pers.. 
Calyx bibracteolate, cup-shaped, subequally s-toothed or cleft. Petals 
subequal ; veail/wm roundish, complicate, crested on the claw or naked; 
ale oblong ; carina long-clawed, ascending, sharply eared or toothed at 
base. Stamens g-1, the tube wide and eared at base, Ovary mult- 
ovulate ; style curved. Legume very long, slender, compressed or cylin- 
drical, with thickened sutures constricted between the seeds, and trans- 
versely multi-loculate ; seeds cylindrical-oblong. Endl. Gen. 6551. DC. 
Prod. 2. p. 264. _ 
Shrubs or herbaceous plants, common throughout the tropics of both hemispheres, 
with outlying species in the warmer temperate zones. Leaves abruptly pinnate, 
multi-jugate, the common petiole prolonged into a bristle. Stipules small, decidu- 
ous. Flowers yellow, in axillary racemes, Sesban is the Arabic name of the original 
species. 
1, S. aculeata (Pers. Ench. 2, p. 216); herbaceous, nearly glabrous; 
the common petiole prickly; leaflets linear, obtuse, mucronulate, 12-30 
jugate; racemes few flowered; calyx-teeth very short, triangular, dis- 
tant ; legumes erect, terete, acute. DC. Prod. 2, p. 26 5. E. Mey. Comm. 
Drege, p. 114. Aischynomene bispinosa, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 564. 
Has. Mouth of the Omsamculo and Omcomas, Drege. Near Port Natal, Mr. 
Hewetson! (Herb. T.C.D., &c.) 
A tall growing annual, several feet high, becoming almost woody below ; the 
young parts sometimes slightly pubescent, otherwise glabrous and glaucous. Leaf- 
lets sometimes in 40 pairs, sometimes in but 10, 4-§ inch long, 1-1} line wide. Ra- 
cemes 4-6 flowered, the peduncle and pedicels very slender. Pods a foot long, not 
: gag wide, scarcely constricted between the seeds. A native also of the East 
ndies, 
XXXV, SUTHERLANDIA, RB. Br. 
Calye campanulate, 5-toothed. Vexillum oblong, shorter than the 
oblong, boat-shaped carina, its sides reflexed ; ale very short. Stamens 
9 1. Ovary stipitate, mult-ovulate ; style bearded along the upper side, 
and in front below the terminal stigma. Legume papery, inflated, many 
seeded, indehiscent ; seeds reniform. Endl. Gen. 6 566. DC. Prod. 2, 
(Pp. 273. a 
A canescent 8. African shrub. 
a Ra with 
minute, thering. es - Flowers handsome, 
searlet_or Legumes bladdery, glistening. Named in honour of James 
Sutherland, one of the ear superintendants of the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh. 
The compliment may now be worthily extended to Dr. Prrer SuTHERLAND, Sur- 
veyor-General of Port al, who is careful to use all o ities for extending our 
knowledge of the botany of that most interesting distri aga 2 
1. 8. frutescens (R. Br. Hort. Kew, Ed. 2, p. 327); DC. Prod. 2, 
p. 273. Colutea frutescens, Linn. sp.1045. Mill.Ic.t.99. Bot.Mag. t. 181, 
Vak. a. communis; thinly canescent ; leaflets elliptical or oblong, glabrous above, 
canescent beneath ; ovaries and legumes quite glabrous, shining. S. frutescens, E. Z. 
1658. S. frutescens, vars. a. and 8. E, Mey. Comm. p. 121. 
