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74. Sesbania Pers. 1 — Receptacle depressed obconical, thickly 

 glandular within. Calyx gamosepalous ; tube broad truncate or 

 equally 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Petals much imbricated ; standard 

 ovate or orbicular, patent or reflexed ; wings falcate-oblong; keel 

 furnished with a rather long claw, curved. Stamens 10, 2-adel- 

 phous (9-1), vexillary stamen a little thickened or geniculate above 

 base ; anthers uniform or 5-alternate a little longer. Germen 

 usually stipitate co -ovulate ; style curved glabrous, stigma small, 

 evenly or unevenly capitate. Legume linear wingless ; margins 

 usually thick {Eusesbania) ; compressed or subterete, 4-gonous or 

 4-winged (Daubentonid 2 ), more rarely short few-seeded ; margins 

 acute [GlottidiumF) ; transversely septate within by intrusion of the 

 often separable endocarp between the seeds ; seeds transversely 

 oblong or square, exarillate. — Herbs or shrubs; leaves paripinnate oc- 

 foliolate ; stipels minute or ; stipules membranous, usually 

 caducous; flowers 4 handsome, sometimes very large (Jgatf) in loose 

 axillary racemes ; bracts and bractlets setaceous, usually very cadu- 

 cous {All hotter regions 6 ). 



75. Microcliaris Benth. 7 — Flowers almost those of Sesbania, 

 very small ; catyx gamosepalous to a considerable height ; lobes 5, 

 somewhat unequal, long acute. Standard suborbicular, narrowed 

 into a claw ; wings oblique ; keel a little shorter than wings, obtuse, 

 stamens 10, 1-adelphous at base ; vexillary stamen afterwards free ; 

 anthers uniform. Germen sessile, cc-ovulate ; style short, rather 

 broad and compressed ; apex thick capitate, rather compressed, 

 stigmatiferous. Legume linear compressed slender submembranous, 

 thinly stuffed within between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds oblong or 

 square, exarillate. — Herbs, slender branched, rather shaggy all over ; 



1 Syn., ii. 316 (part).— DC, Prodr., ii. 265.— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6551. — B. H., Gen., 502, 

 n. 118. — Sesban Poir., Diet., vii. 127. — ? Bar- 

 ivinia Rafin., Fl. Ludov., 106. — ? Monoplectrum 

 Rafin., loc. cit. 



2 DC, Mem. Legum., 285 ; Prodr., ii. 267 — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6554. 



a Desvx., Journ. Pot., i. 119, t. 1.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 266. — Endl., Gen., n. 6550. 



4 White, yellow, purplish red, or variegated. 



5 Rheede, Hort. Malab., i. 95, t. 51, ex 

 Desvx., loc. cit., t. 1, fig. 6.— DC, Prodr., ii. 

 266. —Endl., Gen., n. 6553. 



G Species about 15. Rxjmpii., Herb. Amboin., 

 i. t. 76 (Agati). — Cat., Icon., t. 31 !■ {Jlschy- 

 ■nomene),3U)(Piscidia). — Jacq., Icon. Par.,t. 1 IS 

 (Robinia), 561 {Mschynomene) — H. 13. K., -Y<*r. 

 Gen. et Spec., vi. 533. — Guill. & Pekh., Fl. 

 Seneg. Tent., i. 197, t. 50. — Wight, I<-:<>i., 

 t. 32.— Benth., in Mart. Ft. /Iras., J>„j,i/.. \2, 

 t. 7; Fl. Austral., ii. 212.— Kl., in Pet. B s 

 Moss., Pot., t. 8. — A. Gk.vv, in Amer. Expl. 

 Exjped., />'.-/., t. 46 {Agati).— Pot. Reg., t . 873. 

 Bakeb, in Oliv.Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. l:;3.— W.u P., 

 Rip., i. 680; ii. 858; Ann., iv. t92. 



' Gen., 501, n. 117. 



