Sesbania. LEGUMINOSAE. 95 
incurved, with a capitate stigma. Pod linear, susguonee) bigs or 
with 4 atinion or wings, ON Eyes septate betw the seeds. 
Seeds transversely oblong. — 8, shrubs, or soft- pity and short- 
lived small trees. Leaves a Shoe ty pinnate, with many pairs of entire 
leaflets and deciduous stipules. Flowers large, scarlet, white or yellow, 
in fees axillary racemes. Bracts setaceous, caducous 
mall genus, belonging to the tropics of both hemispheres, 
sta 5-toothed ; flowers scarle S. tomentosa. 
Calyx aie or bilabiate; flowers twice as ‘large, and white . S. grandiflora, 
1. S. tomentosa, Hook. d& Arn. in Bot. Beech. p. 286. — A>* much 
branching shrub, 6—12 ft. high, the branches silky-tomentose when 
eae glabrate with age. Leaves 4—7‘ long, short-petioled, with 8—18 pairs 
leaflets, cuspidate at the end. Leaflets pale, oblong, 6-14“ < 3—4”, 
on péiioles not exceeding 1/2“, obtuse or retuse, mucronate, ied asa 
below when young. Stipules linear, 2—3” long, caducou Race 
pubescent, few-(2—5-)flowered, the peduncle 1'/2‘, the p er 10” See, 
with ovate or lanceolate, long-pointed, caducous bracts ee 1'/z—2” at the 
base and above the middle. Calyx cup- alt about 4“ long, with 
teet bout 
the keel. Ovary pubescent; stigma slender, bidentate. Pod linear, 
6—8' long, 2‘ broad, compressed, somewhat torulose, with thick and 
grooved sutures and a long beak, almost hecgrae Seeds 16—24, 
dark, shining, oblong, compressed, 2“, with a punctiform hilum in the 
middle of the ventral side. — Agati tomentona, Nuttall, in eth. Hooker. — 
Gray, Bot. U.S. E. E. p. 409, pl. 46. — Mrs. Sinclair, pl. 22. 
Along the seashore, ret user southern shore of Molokai! Lanai! Hawaii, 
; Niih Nat. A very e 
r i oolly coccus. According 
to Nadé num. Pl. Tah.) the he sarin d ee cons in Tahiti, where it is known by 
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variety of S. grandiflora, ora with our plant. The tat given in Beechey’s vena: 
viz., Acapulco, is owing to a mistake, according to Py 
7 2. S. grandiflora, Poir. — A small tree, 15—20 ft. high, the ultimate 
— pica sac Leaves 7—9‘ long, with 14—20 pairs of leaflets; 
5“ long, glabrous. Racemes as before. Calyx cup-shaped, 
ve ss pe broad, truncate or somewhat blaine with both lips 
nearly entire. aay white, about 3‘ long. Ovary glabrous. Pod nearly 
terete, 12—18‘ long, 2’ wide, torulose, at length dehiscent. Seeds 30—50, 
— Agati grandiflora, De sv. 
y introduct cr = ot naturalized. — A native of India. The red variety, 
S. coccinea, Poir., does 
