328 XLYIII. LEGUMIXOS.i:. 



ovulate ; style incurved, glabrous ; stigma small, capitate. Pod very 

 long and narrow, dehisceut, septate transversely between the seeds. 

 Seeds numerous, oblong or subquadrate. — Distkib. Throughout the 

 Tropics ; species about 40. 



Pod 0-9 in. long. 



Unarmed; pod twislcd, toriiloso 1. S. esgypliaca. 



Armed; pod not twisted, not tofulose 2. S. aculcata. 



Pod 2-3 in. long 3. S. procumbens. 



1. Sesbania aegyptiaca, Poir. Encyc. v. 7 (1800) p. 128 (Seshnn 

 cpgjfptiacus) ; Rrs. ISi/n. v. 2 (1807) p. 310; var. picta, Pntiii, in 

 Jouni. As. Soc. Bene/, v. 00 (18i)S) \>. 307. A soft-wooded short-lived 

 unarmed shrub 0-15 ft. high ; branclies pale, terete or obscurely angled, 

 striate, glabrous or nearly so. Leaves 2-4 in, long ; petioles |-| in, 

 long; stipules scarious, linear, acute, caducous. Leaflets 20-30, shortly 

 petioluled, |-1 by g-| in., pale-green, linear-oblong, obtuse, faintly 

 apiculate, glabrous. Flowers in lax slender pendulous 0-10-flowered 

 racemes; buds straight; pedicels tiliforin, \-i in. long. Calyx \ in. 

 long, glabrous, membranous ; teetli deltoid, much shorter than the tube. 

 Corolla g-| in. long ; standard as broad as long, mottled with purple on 

 the outside, glabrous on the back, furnished at the base with 2 keel-like 

 appendages which are free and falcate above, running down wing- 

 like into the claw. Pods pendulous, 0-9 in. long, twisted, weak, slightly 

 torulose, sharply beaked, the sutures not much thickened. Seeds 

 20-30. >S. pc^rt (sp.), Pers. Syn. v. 2, p, 310. S. cvgnptiaca, PI. B. 1. 

 V. 2, p. 114 in part {not of Pers.); Grab. Cat. p. 47; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Suppl. p. 21 ; Wight, Icon. t. 32 ; Trim. PL Ceyl. v. 2, p. 34 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. p. 08 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. II (1897) p. 422 ; 

 "Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 0, part 2, p. 513. Gohdea exotica, Pluk. 

 Phytogr. t. 104, f. 5. — Plowers : Aug.-Dec. Veiin. Scvari ; Jaiianti. 



Var. hicohr, Wight & Arn. Prodr. p. 214. Standard maroon- 

 colored or dark purple (not mottkd) outside. Prain, in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 1. c. 



According to Train (l. r.) the typical S. acjiiptiaca lias uniformly yellow flowers and 

 is a native of India. It does not, however, appear to occur in tlie Bombay Presidency 

 eitlier wild or cultivated. Both the above-named varieties are cultivated and more or 

 less naturalized in Bombay. The wood is iiscd to supply poles as substitute^ for 

 bamboos and furnishes excellent charcoal for f;uHpowder. The seeds and leaves are 

 employed in naiive medicine, being considered a valuable remedy in cutaneous diseases. 

 See Watt, Diet. Eeon. I'rod. 1. c— Disriuii. Throughout the Tropics of the Old 

 World. 



2. Sesbania aculeata, Voir. Eticyc v. 7 (1800) p. ]28 {Sishan 

 aculeatiis) ; Pers. iSi/ii. v. 2 (1807) \). 310. A sparingly-branched animal 

 of rapid growth, sometimes r(^aching 8 ft. or more in height; stems 

 si'miwoody ; branches and Icaf-rliac^hiscs more or less prickly. Leaves 

 abruptly pinnate, sometimes reaching 1 ft. in length ; stipules mem- 

 branous, acinm'nate, caducous. Leaflets 20-50 pairs, close, ;|-:J by ;' in., 

 linear-oblong, obtuse, strongly mucrouate, glabrous, base acute ; pc^liolules 

 very short. Flowers in lax axillary 3-0-flo\\cred drooping racemes ; 

 peduncles slender; pedicels |^ in. long, liliform. Calyx /j-^ in, long, 

 nKMuhranous, glabrous; teeth dt'ltoid, nuidi shorter thait the tube. 

 Corolla f-.\ in. long, yellow, usually with red dots on the back of Uie 



