82 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Ridley ! A native apparently of the Old World ; often cultivated and 

 occasionally occuring as an escape. 



4. Indigofera galegioides DC. Prodr. II, 225. A tall sbrnb, 

 reaching 8 feet high, with twiggy woody branches at first adpressed- 

 pubescent at length glabrescent. Leaves distinctly petioled, 8-12 in. 

 long ; petioles '5-2 in. ; leaflets terminal and in 6-12 lateral pairs, 

 oblong obtuse, of varying size generally "5 in. long by '3 in. across but 

 sometimes J-2 in. long, membranous, green above glaucescent beneath 

 very obscurely adpressed hirsute ; stipules distinct, stipels minute. 

 Racemes 2-3 in. long, short-peduncled, very dense-fld. Calyx "04; in. long, 

 lioary, teeth very short, deltoid. Corolla pale-red 'Ai-'b in., finely canes- 

 cent externally. Pods glabrous 2"0-3 in. long, cylindric, straight, beaked, 

 15-18-seeded. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 810 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 

 100. J. imcinata Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 382 ; Wall. Cat. 5472. I. Fiiilay- 

 soniana Wall. Cat. 5488. 



Malay Peninsula; Perak; Kunstler,?>\Q\ Malacca, Griffith! Lang- 

 k a wi, 0?^r^i5, 2865! Distrib. Ceylon; Indo-China ; S.China; Philip- 

 pines ; Malay Archipelago. 



Very easily distinguished from other species by the fact that its pods instead 

 of spreading or being reflexed, are fastigiately grouped with their apices pointing 

 in the direction of the apex of the peduncle. It is often planted for ornament and 

 is perhaps not I'eally native in Malaya. 



24. Sesbanta Pers. 

 Soft-wooded shrubs or trees with long, very narrow abruptly * pin- 

 nate leaves with very numerous deciduous linear-oblong obtuse mucronate 

 leaflets. Flowers in axillary racemes. Calyx campanulate shallowly 2- 

 lobed or 5-toothed. Corolla much exserted ; petals all with long claws; 

 standard broad keel straio^ht and obtuse or subrostrate and recurved. 

 Stamens 2-adelphous ; anthers uniform. Ovary stipitate, linear, many- 

 ovuled ; style filiform, incurved glabrous; stigma capitate. Pod very 

 long and narrow, dehiscent; septate between the very many seeds. 

 Species about 40, cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Flowers small, bud straight (§ Euseshania) ; annual shrubs: — 

 Pod twisted pendulous ; stems thick pith-like ; flowers YS 

 in. long ... ... ... ... ... 1. S. paludosa. 



Pod not twisted usually ascending ; stems woody very 



slender; flowers "4 ia. long ... ... ... 2. S. cannnhina. 



Flowers large, bud falcately recurved (^ Agati) ; a tree ... 3. S. grandifiora. 



1. Sesbania paludosa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 {suh Aeschynomene). 



A large tree-like herb with annual stems reaching 12 feet in height, 



* By an unfortunate oversight this character is not made prominent in the Keys 

 to the tribes and genera, p. 22 and p. 33. 



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