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Sesamum—continued. ; 
S. indicum (Indian). Gingelly or Gingilie Oil-plant ; Sesame or 
Oily Grain, &c. Jl., sepals in. long ; corolla whitish, or with red, 
purplish, or yellow marks; pedicels solitary, rarely in twos or 
threes. July. jr. lin. by 4in., erect, two, or ultimately four- 
valved. l. oblong or ovate, din. to 5in. long, variable ; upper ones 
often narrowly oblong and nearly entire; middle ones ovate 
and toothed; lower ones lobed or pedatisect. h. lft. to 2ft. 
India, &c., 1731. See Fig. 479. (B. M. 1688; B. M. P1. 198.) Syns. 
S. luteum, S. orientale (B. H. ix. 27). 
S. luteum (yellow). A synonym of S. indicum. 
S. orientale (Eastern). A synonym of S. indicum. 
Sesbania— continued. 
S. macrocarpa (large-fruited). . yellow and red, dotted with 
purple ; racemes shorter than the leaves, one to four-fiowered. 
August and September. Pods 8in. to 12in. long, pendulous, 
many - seeded. l., leaflets oblong-linear, obtuse, mucronate. 
h. 3ft. Florida, Mexico, 1820. Greenhouse annual. 
S. picta (painted). jl. yellow, the standard variegated with black? 
dotted lines; racemes many-flowered, nodding. July and 
August. J. with twelve to sixteen pairs of oblong-linear, obtuse 
eo h. 4ft. to 6ft. New Spain, 1823. Stove biennial. 
S. platycarpa (flat-fruited). A synonym of S. vesicaria. 
Fig. 479. UPPER PORTION OF PLANT OF SESAMUM INDICUM. 
SESBAN. See Sesbania egyptiaca. 
SESBANIA (from Sesban, the Arabic name of 
S. egyptiaca). Pea-tree. Including Agati (inadvertently 
kept distinct in vol. i.), Daubentonia, and Glottidiwm. 
ORD. Leguminose. A genus comprising about sixteen 
species of stove or greenhouse herbs or shrubs, some- 
times arborescent, inhabiting the warmer regions. Flowers 
yellow, dull scarlet, purple, variegated, or white, on 
slender pedicels; calyx broad; standard orbicular or 
ovate, spreading or reflexed, the wings falcate-oblong, 
the keel incurved; bracts and bracteoles bristly ; racemes 
axillary, lax. Pods linear or rarely oblong, compressed. 
Leaves abruptly pinnate; leaflets many-jugate, entire; 
stipules highly caducous; stipels minute or absent. The 
species best known to cultivation are described below. 
All thrive in a compost of loam and sandy peat. The 
annuals may be increased by seeds; the shrubby kinds 
` by cuttings of the half-ripened, stubby shoots, inserted 
in sand, under a bell glass, in heat. 
S. tiaca (Egyptian). Sesban. fl. yellow ; standard roundish 
an Seront vem Ty ana A ge S KET H ten pairs, 
oblong-linear, obtuse, and rather mucronate. h. 5ft. Egypt, &c. 
1680. Stove shrub. aA 
S. ora (large-flowered). fl. rose-red, white, or rusty- 
yellow, large; standard oval-oblong, shorter than the wings ; 
racemes few-flowered. July and August. Pods 14ft. long. l. con- 
sisting of many pairs of glabrous leaflets. h. 14ft. to East 
Indies, 1768. Stove tree. | 
S. longifolia (long-leaved). /l. yellow ; racemes a little shorter 
than the leaves. June to August. J. having eleven or twelve 
pairs of lanceolate, acute leaflets. 
Stove shrub, 
Vol. IIL 
h. 6ft.. New Spain, 1820. 
unicea (red). /. vermilion, in racemes. July. J. like those 
of the false Acacia. h. 3ft. Texas, 1820. A common plant in 
various parts of Fanda Oriental and Rio Grande, where it grows 
into a large, handsome shrub. Stove. Syn. Daubentonia 
punicea. 
ho, to Tt da € i 
ual, Syns. S. platycarpa, Glottidium — 
Jloridanum, : 
SESELI (an old Greek name, used by Hippocrates, 
&e., for an umbelliferous plant). Meadow ifrage. 
Including Bubon, Libanotis, and Wallrothia. A genus 
comprising about forty species of mostly hardy, peren- 
nial or rarely biennial, erect, branched herbs, nearly all 
inhabiting the North temperate regions. Flowers white, 
in compound umbels; petals rather broad; involucral 
bracts numerous, few, or absent. Leaves ternate-pin- 
nate, dissected or decompound; segments sometimes fili- 
form, sometimes broader and incised. S. dichotomum 
and S. gummiferum are the only species calling for de- 
scription here. S. Libanotis is a native of Britain. 
The plants thrive in ordinary soil, and may be increased 
by seeds. 
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