Sesbania.] L. LEGUMINOSJ;. (J. Gr. Baker.) 115 



Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 62. ^Escliynomene bispinosa, Jacq. Ic. t. 564. "JE. spinulosa, 

 Itoxb. Fl. 2nd. iii. 333. Ooronilla aculeata, Wittd. Sp. PI. iii. 1147. 



Plains from the WEST HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and SIAM. DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan 

 in tropics of old world. 



Suffruticose, reaching several feet high, the branches and leaf-rachises armed with 

 small weak prickles. Leaves reaching ^-1 ft. long; leaflets glabrous, 4F-81, 

 smaller and narrower than in 8. <gyptiaca~ Racemes laxly 3-6-flowered, distinctly 

 peduncled. Calyx in., glabrous. Corolla f-4 in., pale yellow ; standard dotted with 

 red. Pod 6-9 in. by in., straight or rather falcate, beaked with the persistent 

 style. 



VAR. 1. paludosa; more robust, unarmed, leaves glabrous. JE. paludosa and uligi- 

 nosa, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 333-4. 



VAR. 2. sericea ; branches robust unarmed, leaflets more or less silky even when 

 mature, racemes subsessile. S. stricoa. DC. Prodr. ii. 266 Plains of Ceylon, Fergus- 

 son, CP., 3850. 



VAR. 3. cannabina ; branches obscurely muricated, racemes subsessile 3-4- 

 flowered, corolla and calyx smaller, the former not more than ^ in. long. S. canna- 

 bina, Pers. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 215 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 215 ; Watt. Cat. 5657. ^Esehynomene 

 cannabina, Eetz. Obs.v. 26. Coronilla cannabina, Willd. Sp. PL iii. 1148. S. affinis, 

 Schrad. ; DC. loc. cit. 



3. S. procumbens, TV. # A. Prodr. 215 ; annual, obscurely niuricated, 

 pod short flexible torulose not twisted. Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 62. 

 nomene procumbens, Roxb. FL Ind-. iii. 337. JE>. diffusa, Roxb. MSS. 



PLAINS of the WESTERN PENINSULA. 



Branches lower and more slender than in the last. Leaves 2-3 in. long ; leaflets 

 31-41, linear-oblong, glabrous, glaucous. Flowers solitary or geminate, without a 

 common peduncle. Calyx ~ in. long. Corolla 3 times the calyx. Pod straight, 2-3 in. 

 long, ^ in. thick, 15-20-seeded, distinctly torulose. 



SUBGEX. 2. Ag-ati, Desv. Flowers large ; "bud falcately recurved. 



Pers. Si/n. ii. 316; Bedd. FL Si/lv. 86; Brand. For. 



Flor. 137. y]Esckyn'6meneprrandiflora, Linn. tip. 1050 ; Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 331. 

 Ajrati ^randiflora, jDesv. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 266 ; Wall. Cat. 5654 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 215. Coronilla grandiflora, Willd ty. iii. 1145 Rheede Hort. Mai. i. t. 51. 



PLAINS of the "Western Peninsula, a doubtful native. DISTRIB. Mauritius to N. 

 Australia, but often cultivated. 



A short-lived soft-wooded tree, 20-30 ft. high, with virgate terete branches. 

 Leaves i-1 ft. long; leaflets 41-61, linear-oblong, pale green, glabrous. Flowers 

 2-4, in short axillary racemes. Calyx 1 in. deep, glabrous, shallowly 2-lipped. Corolla- 

 3-4 in. deep, white or, in M. coccinea, Desi\ DC. loc. cit. (^Eschynomene coccinea, L.), 

 more or less deeply tinged with red. Pod 1 foot or more long, falcate, firm, not toru- 

 lose, the sutures much thickened. 



24. CARAGAKA,Lam. 



Usually low shnibs, with the leaf-rachises and the stipules usually spine- 

 tipped and hardened, persistent from year to year. Calyx campanulate, placed 

 very obliquely on its pedicel, produced on the upper side ; teeth 5, deltoid or 

 Janceolate. Corolla much exserted ; standard broad, with reilexed edges ; keel 

 not at all beaked, usually as long as the wings and standard. Stamens diadelph- 

 ous; anthers uniform. Ovary linear, sessile, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, 

 glabrous, stigma minute terminal. Pod linear, turgid, not at all torulose, con- 

 tinuous, but sometimes pubescent within. DISTRIB. Species about 15, spread 

 widely through Central Asia. 



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