362 LEGUMINOSE. — [ Sesbania, 
SESBANIA, Pers. 
petals. Upper stamen free, geniculate near the base, the others 
united in a sheath, angular at base; anthers uniform or nearly so. 
separating the seeds. Seeds not strophiolate.—Herbs or shrubs, 
rarely trees, with abruptly pinnate leaves. Stipules setaceous, very 
deciduous ; stipulets minute or none. Flowers large or middling- 
sized in axillary racemes. Bracts and bractlets very rarely persist- 
ent during flowering. 
X Flowers 2-3 in. long ; standard acute or bluntish ; small 
‘i B Z : é 4 i . S. grandiflora. 
Xx X Flowers less than an inch long ; standard broad, more 
' or less notched. 
>) Racemes drooping from the base already ; small tree . S. Zigyptiaca. 
O O Racemes erect from the base, but often over- 
hanging. Shrubby annuals 
Pods rather convex on both sides, 13-2 lin. broad; standard 3 an — 
in. long; seeds cylindrical . : . : . “ . 8. aculeata. 
Pods rather flat, 2-3 lin. broad, with a narrow border; standard % : 
in. long; seeds more or less compressed-rhomboid ‘ . S. cochinchinensts. 
1. S. grandiflora, Pers.; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 115; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. 86; Brand. For. Fl. 137.—Pouk-pan or pouk-hpyoo.—An 
evergreen tree (15—25+8—9+41—2), all parts glabrous ; leaves 
abruptly pinnate, about 4 a foot long or longer, glabrous and some- 
what glaucous-green ; leaflets in 15-5 pairs, more or less opposite, 
oblong or elliptical, blunt or almost notched and often mucronulate, 
on a slender 1] lin. long petiolule, 1-14 in. long, entire, membranous ; 
flowers large and showy, scarlet, white or variegated, on }-1 in. long 
glabrous pedicels, forming a very short 2-5-flowered glabrous 
raceme in the axils of the leaves; calyx glabrous, about } an m. 
deep or deeper, shortly and broadly toothed; standard 2-23 1. 
long, ovate, rather shorter than the other petals; keel much in- 
curved, ending in a blunt beak ; pods 1-1} ft. long, linear, beaked, 
narrow and sterile at the base, rather flat and somewhat 4-cornered, 
glabrous ; seeds pale-coloured. : 
* enpepabonp all over Burma, and adjacent provinces and islands, 1» 
» native g 
a villages gardens, etc—Fl. R.S.—8S.= ow. 
7 Be rp Pers.; H.f. Ind. Fl. n. 114; Bedd. Sylv. 
Madr. 86, t. 12, £. 3.; Brand. For. Fl. 137.—Yay-tha-hyee——Av 
evergreen (20—25 + 8—104+3—24), all parts glabrous ; leaves 3-4 
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