



Jolutea.] XXXI. LEGUMINOS^. 137 



A shrub, with smooth, reddish-brown bark, and fascicled branchlets. 

 Leaves glabrous ; common petiole 2-4 in. long ; leaflets 7-9, oval or obovate, 

 J-J in. long ; lateral nerves indistinct. Flowers large, greenish yellow, in 

 slender, drooping racemes. Pod membranous, inflated, about 2 in. long, hairy. 



Arid valleys of the inner Himalaya. Ladak, Piti, Kunawar, Kamaon (8000- 

 11,500 ft.) Fl. July, Aug. Hardy in England. The pods open before they 

 ripen ; and in general appearance, also, the plant is different from the common 

 Bladder Senna (C. arborescens, Linn.) It is a subject for further inquiry 

 whether it is near G. orientalis, Miller (C. cruenta, Aiton ; Boissier Fl. Orient. 

 ii. 195). 



6. SESBANIA, Pers. 



Herbs or small soft-wooded trees, of brief duration, with abruptly pin- 

 nate leaves, numerous deciduous leaflets, and middle or large sized flowers 

 in axillary racemes. Calyx broad-campanulate, with short, nearly equal 

 teeth. Petals distinctly unguiculate ; standard large, emarginate, oblong 

 or orbicular ; wings oblong. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform or 

 nearly so. Ovary multiovulate ; style glabrous, incurved ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod long, narrow, linear, dehiscent. 



Flowers 4 in. long ; leaflets linear-oblong . . . 1. S. cegyptiaca. 

 Flowers 3 in. long ; leaflets oblong . . . . 2. S. grandiflora. 



1. S. aegyptiaca, Pers.; Wight Ic. t. 32; W. & A. Prodr. 214; 

 Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 193. Syn. AZscliynomene Sesban, Linn. ; Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 332. Sans. Jayanti, jaya. Yern. Jait, jhijan, janjhan, Pb. ; 

 Dhandiain, Rohilk. ; Jayanti, Beng. ; Shewarie, sheveri, Dekkan. 



A soft-wooded tree, 8-12 ft. high, of a few years' duration. Nearly 

 glabrous, extremities and young leaves slightly pubescent. Common 

 petiole unarmed, 4-6 in. long; leaflets opposite, 10-20 pair, on short 

 petioles, oblong-linear, f-1 in. long, blunt, with a faint mucro, the lowest 

 pair near the base. Racemes lax, 6-12 flowered, nearly as long as leaves ; 

 pedicels spreading, longer than calyx. Calyx -teeth short triangular. 

 Petals J in. long, yellow, or orange and purple. Pod Q-8 in. long, narrow- 

 linear, valves convex, torulose ; seeds 20-30. 



Commonly cultivated and naturalised in many parts of India ; in the Panjab 

 as far as Peshawar. Ascends to 4000 ft. in the North-West Himalaya. Culti- 

 vated throughout the tropics ; wild in tropical Africa. Fl. autumn and C.S. 

 Grown in the drier parts of the Dekkan to furnish poles as a substitute for the 

 bamboo ; rope is made of the bark, the wood is used to boil Jaggery, and the 

 leaves and branches as cattle-fodder. On the rich alluvial banks of the Kistna 

 and Warna rivers in the Dekkan, which are submerged during the annual floods, 

 it is grown from seed as an annual, attaining 15-20 ft. in one season. In the 

 Sattara district it is grown with Melia Azedarach and Moringa pterygosperma 

 to shade and support the Betel vine, in thickets 20 ft. high. 



2. S. grandiflora, Pers. Syn. Agati grandiflora, Desv. ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 215; jEschynomene grandiflora, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 330. Sans. 



IVaka. Vern. Basna, Hind. ; Buka, Beng. ; Agati, Tamil. 

 A short-lived, soft-wooded tree, attaining 20-30 ft. Nearly glabrous, 

 extremities and young leaves slightly pubescent. Common petiole un- 





