Sesbania.] LegZimiflOSCB. 33 



linear, obtuse, retuse, mucronate, glabrous above, white and 

 shining with adpressed hair beneath ; fl. rather large, racemes 

 very long, lax, erect, spicate, terminal ; cal. very hairy, upper 

 segm. broader; style flattened ; pod if-2 in., linear, slightly 

 falcate, weakly mucronate, very densely clothed with copious 

 fulvous hair; seeds 6-10. 



Moist low country ; very rare. The C. P. plants are labelled 

 'Colombo (Macrae);' and Thw. also gives ' Hantane (Gardner).' Fl. 

 purplish-white. 



Also in India and Malacca. 



7. T. villosa, Pers. Syn. PI. ii. 329 (1807). Bu-pila, 6". 

 Burm. Thes. 78. Fl. Zeyl. n. 299. Cracca villosa, L. Sp. PI. 752. 

 Galega villosa, L., Moon Cat. 55. Thw. Enum. 84. C. P. 1447, 1446. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 113. Burm. Thes. t. 33. 



Perennial, semi-shrubby below, branches numerous, spread- 

 ing, white with adpressed hair ; 1. numerous, rachis 1-2 in., 

 silky, stip. rigid, sometimes almost spinous, spreading, lflts. in 

 5-9 pair and an end one, distinctly stalked, narrowly obovate- 

 oblong, obtuse, mucronate, nearly glabrous above, finely silky 

 beneath ; fl. rather small, on hairy ped., in clusters of 2 or 3, 

 racemes lax, terminal, on short peduncles, bracts linear ; cal. 

 densely covered with long soft hair, teeth setaceous, plumose; 

 standard hairy on the back; pod about 1^ in., broadly linear, 

 distinctly falcate, bluntly apiculate, very thickly covered with 

 dense spreading brownish hair; seeds 6-8. 



Dry region ; very common. Fl. all the year; pink, rarely white. 



Also in Peninsular India, Trop. Africa, and Mauritius. 



C. P. 1446 (from Jaffna) has the young leaves and inflorescence much 

 more densely clothed with silvery hair ; it is var. argentea, Thw. Enum. 

 (T argentea, Pers.). Burman's figure (1. c.) represents a white-flowered 

 variety. 



9. SESBANIA, Pers. 



Annual or perennial, semi-woody, 1. long, abruptly pinnate 

 with numerous pairs of lflts., fl. in axillary racemes ; cal. 

 campanulate, segm. shallow, equal ; pet. equal, long-clawed, 

 keel obtuse, not beaked ; stam. diadelphous, anth. uniform; 

 style curved upwards, glabrous ; pod very long and narrow, 

 dehiscent, with distinct partitions between the numerous 



Is. — Sp. 20; 4 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Lflts. 20-30 ; pods pendulous, twisted . 1. S. yKGYPTlACA. 



Lflts. 40-100 ; pods spreading or erect, not twisted . 2. S. aculeata. 

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