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Glabrous ; pods l\ — 2 lin. broad, somewhat angular from the prominent sutures, 



. . 8. JEgyptiaca. 



* * Racemes erect from the base, but often overhanging. Shrubby annuals. 

 Pods rather convex on both sides, 1| — 2 lin. broad ; standard \ in. long ; seeds cylindri- 

 cal, S. aculeata. 



Pods rather flat, 2 — 3 lin. broad, narrowly bordered ; standard § in. long, seeds more 

 or less compressed-rhomboid, 8. CocMnehinensis. 



*1. S. gbakdifloba, Pers. Syii. II. 316 ; Bth. Fl. Austr. II. 2-12 ; 

 Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 115. {Agati grandiflora, Desv. in Journ. Bot. III. 120 ; 

 Griff. Not. Dicot. 438; JEschynomene grandiflora, Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 

 331). 



Hab. Only planted, but generally found in villages all over Burma. — 

 FL BS. 



*2. S. ^gtptiaca, Pers. Encb. II. 316 ; Wigbt Icon. t. 42 ; Bedd. 

 Fl. Sylv. 86. Anal. t. 12. f. 3 ; Hf . Ind. Fl. II. 114. (Mscliynomene ses- 

 han, L. sp. pi. 1061 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 332 ; 8. picta, Pers., Bot. Mag. 

 t. 873). 



Hab. Generally planted in villages all over Burma. — Fl. Fr. Jan. 

 — May. 



3. S. aculeata, Pers. Enchir. II. 316 ; Hf. Ind. Fl. 115. {^s- 

 cliynomene spinulosa, Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 333 ; 8. polyphylla, Miq. in Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I. 288 ; JEscliynomene cannabina, Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 335, non 

 Pers.) 



Hab. Bather frequent in long-grassed pastures and savannahs of the 

 Kolodyne valley, Arracan. — Fl. Octob. 



4. S. Cc-CHiircHOTEirsis, DC. Prod. II. 266 • Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 

 287? (JEscJiynomene paludosa, Boxb. Fl. Ind. III. 333 ; Sesbania canna- 

 bina, Pers. Enchir. II. 316 ; WA. Prod. I. 215 ; 8. aculeata, var. cannabi- 

 na, Bat. in Hf. Ind. Fl. II. 115). 



Hab. Not unfrequent in swamps and swampy pastures all over the 

 plains of Pegu ; also Chittagong. — Fl. Octob. ; Fr. OS. 



The Pegu plant is much smaller, and has the broad flat pod of this spe- 

 cies and the habit and seeds of 8. aculeata, but much fewer leaflets. 



Tephrosia, Pers. 



Conspectus of Species. 



* Flowers in axillary or leaf-opposed racemes, rarely reduced to 2 or a few only. 



Leaves unpaired-pinnate, rarely simple, 

 x Calyx-teeth short, deltoid. {Brissonia, Neck.) 

 Shrub, silky pubescent ; corolla f — 1 in. long, white ; racemes terminal and lateral ; 



pod appressed silk-hairy, T. Candida. 



x x Calyx-teeth narrow, cuspidate, as long as the calyx-tube. Annuals 

 or undershrubs. (Beineria, Mcench.) 

 + Flowers in racemes. 

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