114i L. LEGtJMiNOS^. (J. G. Baker.) ITephrosieh 



W. % A. Prodr. 212 ; TVt. la. t. 371. Galega incana, Hoxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 385. G. 

 Colutea, WHU. 8p. PI. iii. 1246 (exchtdinff descripiioB of pod). T. Ehrenbergians, 

 Schweinf. PI. Mthiop. 18.— Distribution of the type. 



iO. T. pauciflora, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5635; herbaceous, stems finely 

 sUky, flowers usually all in the axils of the leaves, pod glabrescent or finely 

 do-smy slightly recurved 6-8-seeded. T. anthylloides, Sochgt. ; Baker in Olio. 

 Flor. Trap. Africa, ii. 118 ? 



Plains of Scihdb, Stocks, BalzeU ; Punjab, Stewart ; Brnmi, Wallwh. 



Stems densely cffispitose, under a foot high. Stipules ascending, setaceoos; 

 leaflets 5-9, narrow oblanceolat«, finely silfey beneath, 1-1 J in. long, often emap- 

 ginate. Flowers usually all geminate on short pedicels in the axils of the uppe* 

 leaves, casuaUy produced into a sparse raceme. Calyx ^ in., finely silky. Corolla 

 red, twice the calyx. Pod 1-2 in. by J in. ; style glabrous, flattened. — ^Probably a 

 third variety of T. purpurea. The Indian differs from the African plant by 

 smaller flowers and fewer seeds. 



DOUBTFtTL SPECIES. 



T. FuscA, W. S; A. Prodr. 210 (T. argentea, Wight in Wall. Cat. 5648, non Pers.), 

 is a plant gathered by Dr. "Wight on the Dindygul hiUs, of which the flowers are not 

 known. In general habit, leaves, infiorescenee, vestiture, and the shape of the calyx 

 and pod, it resembles closely Mundulea stiberosa, but the leaflets are shorter and more 

 obtuse, and the pod dehisces readily, like that of a Tephrosia, and the sutures are not 

 thickened so as to form a prominent border. The calyx is that of § Srissonia. 



23. SESBANZA, Pers. 



Soft-wooded shrubs or herbs. Leaves long, very narrow, abruptly-pinnate, 

 with very numerous deciduous linear-oblong obtuse mucronate leaflets. Flowers 

 in axillary racemes. Calyx campanulate, shaUowly 2-lipped or 5-toothed. Co- 

 rolla much exserted ; petals all with long claws ; standard broad ; keel obtuse, 

 straight, or in § Agati recurved and subrostrate. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers 

 uniform. Ovary linear, stipitate, many-ovuled ; style filiform, incurved, glabrous, 

 stigma capitate. Pod very long and narrow, dehiscent, with distinct septa be- 

 tween the very numerous seeds. — ^Distkib. Species about 20, spread everywhere 

 through the tropics. 



SiTBGBK. 1. Easesbania. Flowers smaU ; bud straight. 



1. S. eegryptlaca, Pers. ; DC. Prod. ii. 264 ; perennial, unarmed, pod 

 flexible twisted. WaU. Cat. 6656 ; W.Sj-A. Prodr. 214 ; Wt. Ic. t. 32 ; BeM. Fl. 

 Sylv. 86, Anal. Gen. t. 12, fig. 3 ; Brand. For. Flor. 137 ; Bmss. Fl. Or. ii. 193. 

 .(Eschynomene Sesban, Idnn. ; Eoxh. Fl. Ind. iii. 332. M. indica, Burm. Fl. Ind, 

 169. Ooronilla Sesban, WiUd. Sp. iii. 1147 — Iihee.de Moi-t. Mai. vi. t. 27. 



Plains from the Himaiayas to CBTtoNand Siam, ascending to 4000 ft. in the 

 north-west. — Disteib. Cosmopolitan in tropics of old world. 



A soft^wooded shrub of short duration, 6-10 ft. high, with terete t-mggy branches. 

 Leaves 3-6 in. long; leaflets 21-41, glabrous, linear-oblong, pale green. Flowers 

 6-1 0, in copious lax axillary racemes ; pedicels filiform, ^— J in. Calyx ^ in., glabrous, 

 membranous ; teeth short, deltoid. Corolla J-| in., glabrous, pale yellow or (in S. 

 picta, Pers. ; Bot. Peg. t. 873), more or less tinged with deep red. Pod 6-9 in. long, 

 weak, torulose ; sutures little thickened. 



2. S. aculeata, Peirs. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 265-; annual, muricated, pod long 

 firm not twisted nor torulose. WciU. Cai. 5655 ; W. ^ A, Prodr. 214 ; Dais. 4" 



