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Eacemes terminal or leaf-opposed, the lower ones often very short, 

 the upper ones 6' or more long, with distant fascicles of 3 - 4 usually- 

 white flowers, each about 4" long; the broad standard scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the fine subulate calyx-teeth. Pod rather more than 1' long, 

 glabrous or nearly so, with 6-8 seeds. 



Common on or near the coast, and sometimes found more inland. Common through- 

 out the Pacific, and tropical Asia. Called " Auhola " or " Hola " when pounded up for use 

 in poisoning or intoxicating flsh. 



4. SESBANIA Pers. [Ohai.] 



Calyx truncate or 5-toothed. Standard roundish, patent or reflexed. 

 Wings falcate-oblong. Keel incurved. Stamens diadelphous, the one 

 next the standard free. Legume linear, subsessile or stipitate, im- 

 pressed along both margins, many-seeded, tardily dehiscent; seeds 

 separated by spurious dissepiments. — Sometimes tree-like shrubs. 

 Leaves abruptly pinnate, with many pairs of leaflets. Stipules cadu- 

 cous. Racemes axillary. Flowers yellow, purple, or white, showy. 

 Bracts and bractlets caducous. 



A small genus, but widely dispersed throughout the tropics. 



1. S. (agati) tomentosa Hook. & Am. {Enum. No. 100.) A 

 woody plant, with decumbent stems 15°- 20° in length; the branches, 

 foliage, &c., silky-tomentose when young, but glabrate with age. 

 Leaves 4' -7' long, very short petioled; leaflets 8-12 pairs, oblong- 

 elliptical, 7" - 14" long, 3" - 4" wide, pale. Stipules minute. Calyx 

 cyathiform, about 4" long, with broad acute teeth. Petals 1' or more 

 long, red or yellow, brightly colored. Pod nearly terete when mature 

 (compi-essed when young) 5' - 7' long, 1.^"- 2" wide, constricted at in- 

 tervals, slightly stipitate. Seeds 8 - 20, shining. 



Hab. "Waianae, Oahu, and perhaps in other parts. Puna, Hawaii. Niihau. 



2. S. (agati) GKANDiFLORA Poir. {Enum. No. lOl.) A tall shrub, 

 10° -20° high, of very slender growth; nearly glabrous. Leaves 5'- 

 7' long, very short petioled; leaflets 10-20 pairs, oblong, obtuse, 5"- 

 15" long, 3" -4" wide, pale, smooth. Stipules minute. Calyx deeply 

 cyathiform, as long as broad, 7" - 8" long, truncate or having short 

 teeth. Petals 2h'-B' long, very brilliantly variegated. Pod nearly 

 terete, 12' -18' long, 2" wide, torulose, at length 2-valved, tipped by 

 the long style. Seeds 30-50, rather dull. — S. coccinia, Poir. 



Waimea, Kauai, in swamps, and doubtless in many other places, but apparently be- 

 coming killed out. Probably introduced. A native of the East Indies, but common now 

 in many tropical countries. 



Tribe IV. HEDYSARE^^. 

 Herbs, or very rarely shrubs or trees. Leaves various. Pod separating transversely 

 into one-seeded joints, usually indehiscent, or sometimes reduced to a single one-seeded 



