Sesbania 



LEGUMINOS^ 



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1. S. Sesban comb.nov. ; glabrous; branches without prickles ; 

 leaflets in 10-18 pairs; flowers 1-5-1 '8 cm. 1. — S. ajgyptiaca 

 Pers. Syn. ii 316 (1807) ; Wight It: t. 32 ; Griseb. Fl. Br. W. Ind. 

 184 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. t. 12, /. 3 ; Bah. in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. ii. 114; Urh. Symb. Ant. io. 286. Sesban Alj). PI. 

 jEgypt. t. 82. ^schynomene Sesban L. Sp. PI. 714 (1753). 

 (Fig. 5.) Type in Herb. Linn. 



Seashore, Wilson ! March ! cult. Hope Gardens, Harris ! Fl. Jam. 

 8617. — Cuba, Porto Bico, south-eastern America, tropical and subtropical 

 Africa, tropical Asia, northern Australia. 



Soft-wooded shrub 6-10 ft. high. Leaves 1-1*5 dm.l. ; leaflets oblong- 

 lijiear, 2-3 cm. 1., -5 cm. br. Bacemes 3-12-flowered, 3-15 cm. 1. Calyx, 



Fig. 5.—Sesbama Sesban Fawc. & Rendle. 



A, Portion of flowering branch x fi- 



B, Flower partly opened X ■>.■ 



C, Stamens X I 



D, Pod, partly opened to show the 



seeds, X 'i. 

 B, Seed X 2. 



tube 4 mm..!., teeth about 1 mm. 1. Corolla : standard transversely broadly 

 elliptical, somewhat cordate, 1-5-2 cm. 1., 1-7-2 -3 cm. br. ; 2 large calli at 

 the base running down into the claw, above the base free, lanceolate, 

 acuminate ; wings, blade 14 cm. 1., claw about "5 cm. 1. ; keel, blade short, 

 -7--8 cm. 1., claw as long. Pod 15-23 cm. 1., slightly torulcse, compressed, 

 at length cylindrical, beaked with the persistent style. The colour of the 

 flowers is very varied ; some are creamy white with standard finely streaked 

 beneath with dark purple, some are bright yellow, others yellow or creamy 

 white with standard edged with dark rod, and some variegated orange 

 and scarlet. 



2. S. exasperata H. B. <£- K. in Nov. Gen. d Sp. vi. 534 

 (1824) ; glabrous ; branches generally without any prickles, but 



