134 xlvii. § papilionacejs (baker). [Sesbania. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andonsro and Golungo Alto, Angola, and a variety in 

 Huilla with a muricated stem, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



2. S. pachycarpa, DC. Prod. ii. 265. A glabrous erect glaucous 

 annual 1-3 ft. high, usually unarmed. Upper leaves 3-4 in. long ; 

 leaflets 15-20-jugate, reaching 8-9 lines, glabrous, very glaucous. 

 Flowers 1-6 in subsessile abbreviated racemes. Pedicels slender, 2-3 

 lines. Calyx 2J lines. Corolla f in. long, the standard concolorous 

 or dotted. Pod reaching a foot long, the sutures and rounded valves 

 thick : style h in. or more long- ; seeds 20-30. — Guill. et Perr. Fl. Sene°\ 

 200, t. 50. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet I 



Nile Land. Nubia, Kotschy! Binder. Abyssinia, Quartin- Dillon ! 



Lower Guinea. Benguela, Dr. Welwitsch ! (Prickly, with a shorter style.) 



3. S. cinerascens, Welw. mss. A graceful much-branched slender 

 shrub, 8-12 ft. high, with finely grey-downy branches. Petioles very 

 short, unarmed. Upper leaves 4-6 in. long ; leaflets 15-20-jugate, 

 reaching 9-10 lines long, glaucous, puberulous. Peduncles 1-2 in. 

 Racemes laxly 8-12-flowered, the lower pedicels 6-9 lines long, often 

 cernuous. Calyx 2 lines deep ; teeth very short, deltoid cuspidate. 

 Corolla | in. deep, the standard § in. broad, copiously finely dotted with 

 purple. Pod 9—12 in. long, 2J lines thick, tipped with a persistent style 

 half an inch long, the moderately thick valves slightly torulose, not at 

 all ribbed on the 'back ; seeds 40-50. 



Lower Guinea. Pungo Andongo, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch ! 



4. S. aegyptiaca, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 264. An erect copiously 

 branched pale-green glabrous shrub, 5-8 or even 10 ft. high. Leaves 

 nearly sessile, the unarmed rachis on the upper ones 2— 4 in. long;' 

 leaflets 10-20-jugate, glabrous, glaucous-green, reaching an inch long, 

 2 lines broad, blunt with a faint mucro. Peduncles 1—2 in. ; racemes 

 lax, 6-12-flowered ; pedicels spreading, 2-4 lines. Calyx 2 lines, 

 glabrous, the teeth very short, deltoid cuspidate. Corolla bright 

 yellow, J in. long, the round emarginate standard \ in. broad, more or 

 less dotted with purple. Pod 6-8 in. long, 1J— 2 lines thick, distinctly 

 torulose, 20-30-seeded, the valves rounded on the back, not so thick 

 as in S. punctata and pachycarpa. Wight. Ic. t. 32. — S.picta, Pers., Bot. 

 Reg. t. 873 (flowers deeper coloured, more spotted than usual). 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Leprieur and Perrottet ! Guinea proper, Dr. Vogel ! 

 Capt. Burton I &c. 



Nile Land. Upper Egypt, Schimper ! Dr. Bromfield I Nubia, Kotschy ! Banks 

 of the White Nile, Dr. Brownell! 3° N. lat., where the herd-boys use the pod as a 

 rattle, Speke and Grant ! 



Extends through Tropical Asia to North Australia, and often cultivated in European 

 gardens. 



5. S. acnleata, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 265. A slender glabrous annual 

 2—4 ft. high f with the branches and rachis of the leaves armed with 

 small deciduous prickles. Leaves 6-12 in. long ; leaflets 20-50-jugate, 



