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3. Tephrosia ascendens. Suherect Tephrosia, 



SiifFrutescent suberect, leaflets 5-6-paired with an 

 odd one lineari-oblong slightly contracted towards 

 the base apiculated appresso-pubescent beneath, ra- 

 cemes terminal, legumes pendulous appresso-puberu- 

 lous 5-6-seeded. 



HAB. Dry savannahs, South side of the Ishind. 



FL. October — January. 



Suffiutescent, 1-2 feet in heiglit, ascending; branches com- 

 pressed, striated, pubescent, subdivided. Leaflets, niucronato- 

 apiculated, glabrous above, appresso-pubescent beneath : petiole 

 8-gonal, striated, puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Racemes terminal, about 4 inches in length ; peduncle com- 

 pressed. Flowers smaller than in the preceding species, of a 

 pale purplish colour, 2-3 together, pedicelled, furnished with 3 

 small lanceolato-subulate bracteas at the insertion. Calyx ex- 

 ternally pubescent; upper lip bipartite for half the length, with 

 the divisions approximating ; under lip 3-partite for more than 

 half the length. Standard externally sericeo-puberulous : 

 wings cohering for the greater part of their length to the keel. 

 Stamens with the 1 0th subaccrete to the rest. Ovary lineari- 

 oblong, compressed, puberulous : stigma ciliated. Legume pen- 

 dulous, 1^ inch in length, appresso-puberulous, 5-6 seeded. 



X. Sesbania. 

 Calyx 5-fid or 5-dentate, with the lobes subequal. 

 Corolla, with the standard larger than the keel, sub- 

 rotund, folded up ; keel obtuse, 2-clawed at the base. 

 Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1), with a subauriculated 

 sheath at the base. Legume elongated, slender, com- 

 pressed or subcylindrical, contracted between the 

 seeds, but, from the sutures being incrassated, not 

 truly articulated. 



Shrubs or herbaceous plants ; leaves abruptly pinnated ; ra- 

 cemes axillary ; flowers yellow — Name from an Arabic word. 



1.* Sesbania muricata. Prickly Jamaica Sesbania. 



Fruticose, branches angulated aculeolato-muricated, 

 as also the petioles, leaflets 30-50-paired linear mu- 

 cronate subglabrous, racemes 2-8-flowered. 



HAB. Between the 15th and 16th mile-stone, on the Wind- 

 ward road. 



Fli. September — January. 



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