404 BENGAL PLANTS. 
539/3. Var. Bicotor W. & A. S. picta F. B. 1. ii. 114. Bischy- 
nomene Sesban F. I. 332. HE. D. 8. 1174. 
Generally cultivated and often subspontaneous. 
small tree. Vernac. Jainti. ; 
540. SesBanzA PaLUDOSA Prain. S. aculeata var. paludosa F. B.1. 
ii, 115 partly. Aschynomene paludosa F. I. iii, 393. 
EK. D. 8. 1164. 
Central and Eastern Bengal, in jheels; common. 
A tall marsh plant with tree-like stems. Beng. Katb- 
sola. 
541, Smspanza caNnnaBInA Pers. S. aculeata var. cannabina 
F. B. I. ii, 115. Aschynomene cannabina F. I. iii, 339. 
. D. 8. 1166. 
Cultivated in N. C. and E. Bengal. 
An unarmed annual with very tall slender stems. Beng. 
Dhunchi, 
542. Sespanza acuLgzata Pers.; F. B. I. ii. 114. AMschynomene 
spinulosa F. I. iii. 333. E. D. S. 1163. 
In all the provinces, in wet fields. 
A low virgate prickly undershrub. 
543. SESBANIA ULIGINOSA Sweet. S. aculeata var. paludosa F.B. i. 
ii. 115 partly. Aischynomene uliginosa F. I. iii. 334. 
Central Bengal. 
diffuse, prostrate, unarmed annual weed of wet 
544. Suspanta Granpirtora Pers.; F. B. IL. ii. 115; EB. D- 
S. 1186. Xschynomene grandiflora F. I. iii. 331. 
Generally planted. 
A soft-wooded tree. Vernac. Agati, agasthi. 
251. Tephrosia Pers. 
Herbs or undershrubs, rarely shrubs; leaves odd-pinnate ; a 
lets numerous, rarely 3 or 1, obliquely parallel-veined from we 
midrib, usually silky beneath; stipules setaceous, sometimes 
Spmescent, or, if broader, striate; stipels 0. Flowers paired of 
fascicled in the axils of leaves or on terminal leaf-opposed oF _ 
axillary racemes, occasionally both axillary and racemose: 
racemes with bracts consisting of connate stipules ; bracteoles 0 
epals 5 connate in a campanulate tube ; teeth subequal or the 2 
upper slightly connate or the lowest occasionally longer than the 
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