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Coronilla coccinea Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 1146. 1803. 



Sesban grandifloyus Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 7: 127. 1806. 



Sesban coccineus Poir. in Lara. Encvc. 7: 127. 1806. 



Sesbania grandiflora Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 316. 1807. 



Sesbania coccinea Pers. Syn. PI. 2: 316. 1807. 



Agali coccinea Desv. Jour, rie Bot. Desv. II. 1: 120. 1813. 



Resupinaria grandiflora Raf. Sylva Tell. 115. 1838. 



Agali grandiflora coccinea Wight & Arn. Prodr. Ind. Or. 1: 216. 1834. 



Emerus grandiflorus Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 180. 1891. 



A small tree; leaves 1-3.5 dm. long; leaflets 14-50, oblong, glabrous or puberulent, 2.5-6 

 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, rounded or retuse at the apex, acute or obtuse at the base; racemes 

 1-3-flowered; bracts and bractlets ovate, minute, caducous. Calyx about 2 cm. long and 

 broad, slightly 2-lipped, the lobes very short or obsolete; corolla white or pinkish, or bright-red 

 (var. coccinea), 6-8 cm. long; pod pendulous, 3-4 dm. long, 8 mm. wide and 4 mm. thick, 

 25-35-seeded; seeds reniform, 6 mm. long and 4 mm. high, brown, smooth. 



Type locality: India. 



Distribution: Florida; Yucatan; West Indies; also in Venezuela and Colombia; naturalized; 

 native from India to northern Australia and the Philippines. 



Illustrations: Jour, de Bot. Desv. II. 1: pi. 4,f. 6; Tussac, Fl. Ant. 3: pi. 6; Britton, N. Am. 

 Trees/. 517; Am. Jour. Bot. 10: pi. 35 I. 



Excluded species 



AgaTi tomENTosa (H. & A.) Nutt.; A. Gray, Bot. U. S. Expl. Exp. 1: 409. pi. 46. 1854. 

 Sesbania tomenlosa H. & A. Bot. Beechey Voy. 286. 1836. In the original publication, the 

 type locality of this was given as Acapulco, Mexico, but the specimens undoubtedly came from 

 the Hawaiian Islands. 



10. DAUBENTONIOPSIS Rydb. Am. Jour. Bot. 10: 497. 1923. 



Shrubs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with many leaflets, and caducous stipules, bracts, and 

 bractlets. Flowers in axillary racemes. Calyx rotmded-campanulate, broader than high, 

 its 5 lobes very short. Corolla yellow. Banner short-clawed with a suborbicular reflexed 

 blade. Wings short-clawed, with obliquely oblong blades. Keel-petals with a longer claw 

 and a nearly semi-circular blade, without a basal auricle. Stamens diadelphous, the staminal 

 sheath much dilated at the base and with a rounded basal auricle. Pod coriaceous, stipitate, 

 compressed, linear, decidedly torulose, several-seeded, constricted and with transverse par- 

 titions between the seeds. Seeds oblong-reniform, about twice as long as high. 



Type species, Aeschynomene longifolia Cav. 



1. Daubentoniopsis longifolia (Cav.) Rydb. Am. Jour. Bot. 

 10: 497. 192*3. 



Aeschynomene longifolia Cav. Ic. 4: 8. 1797. 



Aeschynomene longifolia Ortega, Dec. 70. 1S00. 



Piscidia longifolia Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 920. 1803. 



Daubentonia longifolia DC. M6m. Leg. 286. 1823. 



Sesbania longifolia DC. Prodr. 2: 265. 1825. 



Sesbania Cavanillesii S. Wats. Bibl. Index 258. 1878; Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 342, in part, as to 



synonym. 1882. 

 Emerus longifolius Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 181. 1891. 

 Sesbania mexicana Pollard, Bull. Torrev Club 24: 154. 1897. 

 Sesban mexicanus Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 476. 1922. 



A shrub; branches glabrous or strigose above, terete; stipules linear-lanceolate, yellowish, 

 sericeous, caducous; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; leaflets 14-20, oblong-lanceolate, acute at each 

 end, cuspidate, glabrous or strigulose beneath when young; racemes 7-14 cm. long, 5-13- 

 flowered; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long; calyx 6-8 mm. high, 7-9 mm. broad; lobes broadly trian- 

 gular, 1 mm. long, broader than long, acute; corolla 15-18 mm. long; pod coriaceous, the 



