74 MERKILL. 



100S9 Viinun: Manila, Men ill Decades Philip. Forest Fl. 2S'J : Province of Bataan, 

 Aheni 767, For. Bur. 25DS Meyer, Merrill 1523: Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 

 2JfG.'t Aliern's collector: Province of Tayabas, Merrill 1913, For. Bur. 650G Kohbc. 

 :Mixdoro, Merrill 8.9^, For. Bur. 8532 Merritt. Paiawan, For. Bur. 3607 

 Curran, Bur. Sci. 263 Bermejos. Guimabas, For. Bur. 29Jt Gammill. Bohol, 

 Bur. 8ci. 1237 McGregor. Mindanao, Ahem 309. 



Native names: Madre cacao; cacauate, the former of Spanish, the hitter of 

 Mexican origin. 



A native of tropical America, introduced into the Philippines in the eighteenth 

 century, according to F.-Villar, and now cultivated and subspontaneous more or 

 less throughout the Arcliipelago; very abundant in many provinces and islands. 



40. SESBANIA Scop. 



Flowers small, bud straight; annual sutirutescent herbs (§ Eusesbama). 



Flowers 2 cm long; pod twisted, pendulous 1. 8. roxburghii 



Flowers 1 cm long; pod not twisted, usually ascending 2. »S'. cannabina 



Flowers large, 7 to 8 cm long, the buds faleately recurved ; pod not twisted, 

 I)endulous (§ Agati) 3. S. grandiflora 



1. Sesbania roxburghii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 269. 

 Aeschynomcnc paludusa Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814), nomen, Fl. Ind. 3 (1832) 



333, non Sesbania paludusa Jacq. 



Coronilla emerus Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 582, non Linn. 



Sesbania paludosa Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66" (1897) 82, 307, non Jacq. 



Sesbania cannabina Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 418, ed. 3, 2: 400, non Pers. 



Sesbania grandiflora Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1^ (1855) 288, non Pers. 



Sesbania cochinchincnsis Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 45- (187C) 271, 

 non DC. 



Sesbania aculeaia var. paludosa Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Tnd. 2 (1S7(J) 115, 

 in part, and excluding the sj^nonym Aeschynomene uligiiiosa. 



Sesbania aculeata F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 59, non Pers. 



Luzon, Province of Laguna, Bur. Sci. 6530 Iiobinso)i, For. Bur. 1009S Curran, 

 in shallow water in Lake Bay. 



Native names: Balacla (Laguna) ; malacaguios, ex Blanco. 



Bengal to Burma, southern China, Formosa, and Java. 



2. Sesbania cannabina (Retz.) Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 31G; DC. Prodr. 2 

 (1825) 2(1.-) : I'lain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66= (1897) 83, 308. 



Aeschynomene cannabina Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 26. 



Agati cannabina Desv. Journ. Bot. 1 (1813) 120. 



Sesbania ucgyptiaca F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 59; Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. 

 ed. 3, pi. Jf05, non Pers. 



Sesbania aculeata F.-Vill. 1. c. 59, non Pers. 



Sesbania picta Vid. Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 20, non Pers. 



Luzon, Province of Isabela, Bur. Sci. 8086 Ramos: Province of llocos Norte, 

 Bur. Sci. 2233 Mearus, Bur. Sci. 76Ji8 Ramos: Province of llocos Sur, For. Bur. 

 15695 Merritt & Darling: Province of Union, Fenix 2: Province of Pangasinan, 

 Alberto 28, Bur. Sci. JfSoO Ramos: Province of Pampanga, Merrill I'l'i-'i: Manila, 

 Burgos 57, McGregor 73: Province of Rizal, Bur. Sci. 1370 Ramos: Province of 

 Laguna, Elmer, Ilallicr s. n. Mindanao. District of Cotabato, For. Bur. 3938 

 Hutchinson. 



Native names: Rubao (l-iiion); bulacbuc (Rizal); bayucbacbuquit (Pam- 

 panga ) . 



India to ]'>urma, the Malav Peninsula antl .la\a. 



