76 Leguminose. [Sesbania. 
Leaves and branches glabrous; pods 2-4 
in. long : : , . 2..S. PARIoeas 
Stems armed with weak prickles; pods 
6-9 in. long; leaflets 3-3 in. long . . 3. 9. ACUERaaT 
Flowers 3 in. long; buds recurved ; : S. grandiflora. 
1. S. egyptiaca Pers. Syn. Pl. I], p. 316 (1807). A’schynomene 
Sesban Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 714 (1753) pp. Sesbania Sesban Merr. in Phil. 
Journ. Sc. Bot. VII, p. 235 (1912). Afschynomena indica Burm. f. FI. 
Ind. p. 169 (1768) non Linn. Sesbania indica O. Ktze. Rev. Gen. 
p. 180 (1890). 
Our wild (?) plant is var. picta Prain Journ. As. Soc. Beng. LXVI, 
p- 367 (1897). S. picta. Pers. 1. c. non Fl. Brit. Ind. Aschynomene 
picta Cav. Ic. IV, p. 7 (1791-1801). 
I have also seen var. bicolor W. & A. Prodr. p. 214, which has the 
standard dark-maroon outside, as a casual near Poilakande Estate, 
Kadugannava. 
Gamble (Kew Bull. 1920, p. 50) rejects the name S. Sesban as 
practically reduplicated. 
S. SERICEA DC, Prodr. II, p. 266 (1825). S. aculeata var. sericea 
Benth. ex. Thw. Enum. p. 441 (1864). Coronilla sericea Willd. 
Enum. Hort. Berol. p. 773 (1809). 
A plant originally described for the West Indies and found once by 
Ferguson near Colombo; as it is not known wild elsewhere in the 
old world it was probably an introduction. 
2. S. paludosa Jacq. ex DC. Prodr. IJ, p. 265 (1825) nec Prain 
nec Afschynomene paludosa Roxb. S. uliginosa Sweet, Hort. Brit. 
p. 129 (1826). Afschynomene uliginosa Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 56 
(re14)6 FL Ind, i111, p. 334. (1832). 
A diffuse, semi-shrubby annual; branches unarmed, 
glabrous; leaf-rachis about 2 in. long, not stout, glabrous; 
leaflets about 40, 4 in. long, linear-oblong, very shortly 
stalked, obtuse, mucronate, glabrous; fls. not seen; pods 
2-4 in. erect, linear, beaked, subsessile in the axils of the 
leaves. 
Illupai-kaduvai, in paddy fields. 
Also in India. 
3. S. aculeata Pers. 
Add synonyms: 
AEschynomene aculeata Schreb. in Nov. Act. Nat. Cur. IV, p. 134 
(1770). A. bispinosa Jacq. Ic. III, p. 13 (1793). A. spinulosa Roxb. 
Fl. Ind. III, p. 333 (1832). Coronilla cochinchinensis Lour. FI. 
Cochinch. II, p. 52 (1790). Sesbania cochinchinensis DC. Prodr. I, 
p. 266 (1825). S. bispinosa Spreng. ex. Steud. Nom., ed. 2, II, p. 572 
(1841). Agati cannabina Adans. Fam. II, p. 326 (1763) non S. can- 
nabina Poir. 
S. GRANDIFLORA Pers. 
Cultivated throughout India. 
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