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4 to 5, distant. In the Bangs ; very rare. Wassoorna forest, 

 Dr. Gibson. This is, perhaps, the Robinia ferruginea of Roxb. 

 Fl Ind. iii, 329. 



2. SESBANIA, Pers. 



1. ACULEATA, Pers. Syn. ii, 316. Herbaceous, annual, erect, 

 sparingly branched, glabrous ; leaves abruptly pinnated ; leaflets 

 20 to 40 pair, linear obtuse mucronate ; racemes axillary peduncled 

 lax, few-flowered ; flowers pretty large, on slender pedicels ; legumes 

 nearly terete, long, sharp-pointed. Very common. Syn. Aeschy- 

 nomene opinulosa, Roxb. Fl Ind. iii; 333; Ae. cannabina Roxb. 

 loc. cit. 335; Ae. bispinosa, Jacq. Ic. rar. 3, t. 564; Coronilla 

 aculeata, Willd. sp. iii, p 1147. 



2. PROCUMBENS, W. and A. Prod. 215. Annual, diffuse, armed 

 with inoffensive prickles ; leaflets minute, 20 pair ; peduncles 

 axillary, short, 2 to 3-flowered ; legumes linear erect cuspidate. 

 Very common. Syn. Aeschynomene procumbens, Roxb. Fl Ind. 

 iii, 337. 



III. HEDYSARE.E. 

 1. GEISSASPIS,W. and A. 



1. CRISTATA, W. and A. Prod. 21 8. Procumbent herbaceous 

 plant ; leaves equally pinnated ; leaflets 2 pair, cuneate obovate, 

 retuse, dotted ; racemes axillary and terminal, on longish peduncles ; 

 bracteas large, orbicular, margins ciliated bristly ; flowers solitary 

 in each bractea, small, orange-coloured ; legume 1 to 2-jointed, 

 tumid in the middle, thin at the margins. Very common in pas- 

 ture lands. 



2. ZORNIA, Gmelin. 



1. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Smith in Ree's Cycl. Annual diffuse ; 

 leaflets 2, oblong or lanceolate mucronate, bracteas sagittate ovate 

 acute ciliated, pellucid dotted ; legumes 2 to 5-jointed, pubescent, 

 prickly. Very common. DC. Prod. 2, 31 6; Syn. Hedysarum 

 diphyllum and Linn. ; Roxb. Fl Ind. iii, 353. 



2. ZEYLONENSIS, Pers. Syn. ii, 318. Leaflets 2, oblong or ovate 

 mucronate ; bracteas sagittate ovate acute, opaque dotted ; legumes 

 2 to 3 times the length of the bracteas, prickly, glochidiate. Very 

 common. DC. Prod. 2, 317 ; Syn. Z zeylanica, Spr. syst. iii, 311; 

 Hedysarum conjugation, Willd sp. iii, 1 178. 



3. AESCHYNOMENE, Linn. 



1. INDICA, Linn. sp. 1061. Annual procumbent; branches 

 slender, humifuse ; leaflets 15 to 20 pair, linear obtuse; peduncles 



