114 L. LEGUMINOSJI. (J. G. Baker.) [Teplirosia. 



W. $ A. Prodr. 212; Wt. Ic. t. 371. Galega incana, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 385. G-. 

 Colutea, Willd. Sp. PI. iii. 1246 (excluding description of pod). T. Ehrenbergiana, 

 Schweinf. PL Mthiop. 18. Distribution of the type. 



10. T, pauciflora, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5635; herbaceous, stems finely 

 silky, flowers usually all in the axils of the leaves, pod glabrescent or finely 

 cloTVtny slightly recurved 6-8-seeded. T. anthylloides, Hochst. ; Baker in Oliv. 

 JFlor. Trap. Africa, ii; 118 ? 



Plains of SCINDK, Stocks, Dalzell ; PUNJAB, Stewart ; BIRMA, Wallich. 



Stems densely caespitose, under a foot high. Stipules ascending, setaceous ; 

 leaflets 5-9, narrow oblanceolate, finely silky beneath, l-l in. long, often emar- 

 ginate. Flowers usually all geminate on short pedicels in the axils of the upper 

 leaves, casually produced into a sparse raceme. Calyx in., finely silky. Corolla 

 red, twice the calyx. Pod 1-2 in. by in. ; style glabrous, flattened. Probably a 

 third variety of T. purpurea. The Indian differs from . the African plant by 

 smaller flowers and fewer seeds, 

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DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



T. FUSCA, W. $ A. Prodr. 210 (T. argentea, Wight in Wall. Cat. 5648, non Pcrs.\ 

 is a plant gathered by Dr. "Wight on the Dindygul hills, of which the flowers are not 

 known. In general habit, leaves, inflorescence, vestiture, and the shape of the calyx 

 and pod, it resembles closely Mundulea suberosa, but the leaflets are shorter and more 

 obtuse, and the pod dehisces readily, like that of a Tephrosia, and the sutures are not 

 thickened so as to form a prominent border. The calyx is that of Brissonia. 



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23. SESBANIA, Pers. 



Soft-wooded shrubs or herbs. Leaves long, very narrow, abruptly-pinnate, 

 with very numerous deciduous linear-oblong obtuse mucronate leaflets. Flowers 

 in axillary racemes. Calyx campanulate, shallowly 2-lipped or 5-toothed. Co- 

 rolla much exserted ; petals all with long claws ; standard broad ; keel obtuse, 

 straight, or in Agati recurved and subrostrate. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary linear, stipitate, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, glabrous, 

 stigma capitate. Pod very long and narrow, dehiscent, with distinct septa be- 

 tween the very numerous seeds. DISTRIB. Species about 20, spread everywhere 

 through the tropics. 



STJBGEN. 1. Eusesbania. Floicers small ; bud straight. 



, JifyS. cegyptiaca ? Persf, DC. Prod. ii. 264 ; perennial, unarmed, pod 

 flexible twisted. IVatt. Cat. 5056 ; W.SfA. Prodr. 214 ; Wt. Ic. t. 32 ; Bedd. FL 

 Sylv. 86, Anal. Gen. t. 12, fig. 3 ; Brand. For. Flor. 137 ; Boiss. FL Or. ii. 193. 

 JSschynomene Sesban, Linn. ; jRovb. FL Ind. iii. 332. ^E. indica, Burm. FL Ind. 

 169. Coronilla Sesban, Willd. Sp. iii. IltfJRheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 27. 



Plains from the HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and SIAM, ascending to 4000 ft. in the 

 north-west. DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan in tropics of old world. 



A soft- wooded shrub of short duration, 6-10 ft. high, with terete twiggy branches. 

 Leaves 3-6 in. long; leaflets 21-41, glabrous, linear-oblong, pale green. Flowers 

 6-10, in copious lax axillary racemes ; pedicels filiform, - in. Calyx in., glabrous, 

 membranous ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla | f in., glabrous, pale yellow or (in 8. 

 picta, Pers.; Bot. Sea. t. 873), more or less tinged with deep red. Pod 6-9 in. long, 

 weak, torulose ; sutures little thickened. 



2. S. aculeata, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 265 ; annual, muricated, pod long 

 firm not twisted nor torulose. Wall. Cat. 5655 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 214 j Dak. $ 



