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glabrous: stem and petioles usually sprinkled with minute cartilaginous 
points: leaves 8-10 times longer than broad ; leaflets 20—40 pairs, linear, ob- 
tuse, mucronate: racemes axillary, peduncled, erect, lax, often about half 
the length of the leaves; few-flowered: flowers pretty large (more than half 
an inch long), on slender pedicels: corolla about 4 times the length of the 
calyx: legumes erect, nearly terete, sharp-pointed.— Pers. syn. 2. p. 316 
(excl. syn.) ; DC. prod. 2. p. 265 (excl. syn.); Spr. syst. 3. p. 272 ; Wall. L. 
n. 5655; Wight! cat. n. 904.— /Eschynomene spinulosa, Rowb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 
333 ; in. E. I. C. mus. tab. 2906.—/E. cannabina, Roxb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 335.—4E. 
bispinosa, Jacq. ie. rar. 3. t. 564.— Coronilla aculeata, Willd. sp. 3. p. 1147. 
S. affinis, Schrad., was probably raised from seeds of Roxburgh's ZEsch. 
cannabina, and ought therefore to be referred here, but De Candolle describes 
the legumes pendulous. 
669. (3) S. cannabina (Pers.:) herbaceous, annual, erect, sparingly branch- 
ed, glabrous: young parts sprinkled with minute cartilaginous points : leaves 
8-10 times longer than broad; leaflets linear, obtuse, mucronate: racemes 
axillary, nearly sessile, very short, 1—4-flowered: flowers small (scarcely a 
quarter of an inch long), on short pedicels: corolla twice the length of the 
. calyx: legumes erect, “ compressed-tetragonal," ( Wilid.)— Pers. syn. 2. p. 
316; DC. prod. 2. p. 265 ; Spr. syst. 3. p. 272; Wall.! L. n. 5657 ; Wight! 
cat. n. 903.— Eschynomene cannabina, Retz. obs. 5. p. 26.—Coronilla canna- 
bina, Willd. sp. 3. p. 1148. d 
S. cochinchensis, DC., or Coronilla cochinchensis, Lour., appears to be this 
species, which we have from China ; nor is there almost any thing of conse- 
quence in Loureiro's description at variance. 
t 670. (4) S. procumbens (W. & A.:) “ annual, diffuse, somewhat armed 
with inoffensive prickles : leaflets minute, about 20 pairs: peduncles axillary, 
short, 2-3-flowered : legumes linear, erect, cuspidate.’ Roxb.— Hschyno- 
mene procumbens, Rowb. fl. Ind. 3. p. 337.—E. diffusa, Roxb. in E. 5C. 
ec tab. 297.—— Coromandel, on wet pasture land, borders of rice fields, 
e. 
Roxburgh compares this with his Æ. uliginosa (in E. I. C. mus. tab. 974), 
which, a i also a species of Sesbania, is by no means the same as S. 
uliginosa of authors. So far as we can judge from descriptions, the two plants 
of Roxburgh form but one species ; nor is there any other difference pointed 
out except that Æ. uliginosa (from Calcutta) has * twice the number of leaflets 
to the leaf, and more than twice the number, of flowers to the raceme. 
XXII. AGATI. Adans.; Desv.; DC. 
Calyx campanulate, slightly 2-lipped; upper lip with 2, under with 3 
short obtuse broad teeth. Corolla papilionaceous. Vexillum oval, oblong, 
shorter than the oblong ale: keel large, faleate, obtusely acuminated, its pe- 
tals free at the base and apex. Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1), slightly pro- 
truded: sheath with large auricles at the base. Style filiform. Legume at- 
tenuated at the base into a stalk, linear, elongated, a little compressed, many- 
seeded, much contracted between the seeds, but not jointed. Seeds sepa- 
rated by cellular partitions —Small trees of rapid growth and short duration. 
Stipules lanceolate. Leaves abruptly pinnated ; leaflets many pair. Ra- 
cemes axillary, 2-4-flowered. Flowers very large. Legumes pendulous, 
upwards of a foot long. 
à di ; .! L. n. 6654.—schynomene gran- 
diner, die dns 3. aged ades 0. ; flowers white.—Wight P ati 
n. 901.— A. grandiflora, Desv. in journ. Bot. 3. p. 1205; DC. prod. 2. p. 266. 
—Eschynomene grandiflora, Linn. sp. p. 1050 ; Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 
