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Sesanmm continued. 



S. indienm (Indian). GingeUy or Gingilie Oil-plant ; Sesame or 

 Oily Grain, &c. jL, sepals iin. long ; corolla whitish, or with red, 

 purplish, or yellow marks ; pedicels solitary, rarely in twos or 

 threes. July. fr. Iin. by iin., erect, two, or ultimately four- 

 valved. 1. oblong or ovate, Sin. to Sin. long, variable ; upper ones 

 often narrowly oblong and nearly entire; middle ones ovate 

 and toothed ; lower ones lobed or pedatisect A. 1ft. to 2ft. 

 India, <ta, 173L See Fig. 479. (B. M. 1688 ; B. M. PL 198.) SV.NS. 

 S. luteum, S. orientate (B. H. ix. 27). 



S. luteum (yellow). A synonym of S. indicum. 



S. orientate (Eastern). A synonym of S. uuKcusn. 



Sesbania continued. 

 S. macrocarpa (large-fruited). JL yellow and red, dotted with 



purple ; racemes shorter than the leaves, one to four-flowered. 



August and September. Pods Bin. to 12in. long, pendulous, 



many -seeded. L, leaflets oblong - linear, obtuse, mucronate! 



A. 3ft Florida, Mexico. 1820. Greenhouse annual. 

 S. plcta (painted). JL yellow, the standard variegated with black, 



dotted lines; racemes many - flowered, nodding. July and 



August J. with twelve to sixteen pairs of oblong-linear, obtuse 

 New Spain, 1823. Stove biennial. 



August 



lain* A. 4ft. to 6ft. 

 (B.B.873.) 

 S. platycarpa (flat-fruited). 



A synonym of S. tetfearia. 



FIG. 479. UPPER POBTIOS OF PLAJTC OF SESAMUM I 



See Sesbania segyptiaca. 



SESBANIA (from Sesban, the Arabic name of 

 S. cegyptiaca). Pea-tree. Including Agati (inadvertently 

 kept distinct in voL L), Davbentonia, and Qlottidium. 

 ORD. Leguminosee. A genus comprising about sixteen 

 species of stove or greenhouse herbs or shrubs, some- 

 times arborescent, inhabiting the warmer regions. Flowers 

 yellow, dull scarlet, purple, variegated, or white, on 

 slender pedicels ; calyx broad ; standard orbicular or 

 ovate, spreading or reflexed, the wings falcate-oblong, 

 the keel incurved ; bracts and bracteoles bristly ; racemes 

 axillary, lax. Pods linear or rarely oblong, compressed. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate; leaflets many-jugate, entire; 

 stipules highly caducous; stipels minute or absent The 

 species best known to cultivation are described below. 

 All thrive in a compost of loam and sandy peat. The 

 annuals may be increased by seeds; the shrubby kinds 

 by cuttings of the half-ripened, stubby shoots, inserted 

 in sand, under a bell glass, in heat. 

 S. eegyptiaea (Egyptian). Sesban. JL yellow ; standard roundish 



Jnrithout dotF July and August. L, leaflets ten pairs, 



oblong-linear, obtuse, and rather mucronate. h. 5ft Egypt, <Sc., 



1680. Stove shrub. 

 S. grandiflora (large-flowered), JL rose-red, white, or rusty- 



yeUowThSge ; standard oval-oblong, shorter than the wrngs ; 



racemes few-flowered. July and August. ****g l 9L*; 



sisting of many pairs of glabrous leaflets, h. 14ft to 26ft. East 



Indies, 1768. Stove tree. 

 S lonrifolla (long-leaved). JL yellow ; racemes a little shorter 



th?f leTves. g June 3 &* L having eleven or twelve 



pairs of lanceolate, acute leaflets. A. 6ft New Spam, 1820. 



Stove shrub. 



Vol. ill 



vermilion, In racemes. July. I like those 

 A. 3ft Texas, 1820. A common plant in 



ental and Rio Grande, where it gro 

 handsome shrub. Stove. SYN. Davbentonia 



8. pnnlcea (red). /. 



ofthe fedse Acacia. 



various parts of Kanda Oriental and Rio Grande, where it grows 



into a large, 



punicea. 

 S. vesicarla 



carla (bladdery). JL yellow, 

 form, very short and broad ; racemes 



, few, loose ; standard reni- 



, mes axillary, pedunculate. July 



and August L, primordial ones ovate, simple , the rest abruptly 

 pinnate, many-jugate, h, 5ft to 7ft Florida and Carolina, 

 1816. Greenhouse annual SY.vs. platycarpa, Glottiilivm 

 floridanwA. 



SESELI (old Greek name, used by Hippocrates, for 

 an umbelliferous plant). Meadow Saxifrage. Including 

 Bubon, Libanoii*, and Wallrothia (of Sprengel). ORD. 

 Umbelliferat. A genus of about forty species of mostly 

 hardy, perennial or rarely biennial, erect herbs, nearly all 

 inhabiting the North temperate regions. Flowers white, 

 in compound umbels; petals rather broad; involucral 

 bracts numerous, few, or absent. Leaves ternate-pin- 

 nate, dissected or decompound; segments sometimes fili- 

 form, sometimes broader and incised. 8. dichotomum 

 and 8. gummifemm are the only species calling for de- 

 scription here. 8. Libanotis is a native of Britain. 

 The plants thrive in ordinary soil, and may be increased 

 by seeds. 



S dlchotomnm (dichotomons). JL white; involucre wanting. 

 June and July, i pinnate ; leaflets multifid, the segment* linear. 

 Stem terete, erect, clothed with fine down ; lower branches short 

 A. 1ft to 2ft Tauria, 1818. Perennial. (B. M. 2073.) 

 S. gmnmiferum (gnm-bearingji JL white, tinned with pink; 

 involucre of few leaflets, rarely wanting ; umbel twenty-rayed. 

 July to September. L tripinnate, glaucous; leaflets cuneate, 

 trittd. Stem thick, stiff, branched at top, yielding a gum when 

 cut A. 3ft. to 4ft Tauria, 1804. A showy biennial, (a M. 2259.) 



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