Golutea.] XXXI. LEGUMINOS^. 137 



A shrub, with smooth, reddish-hrown bark, and fascicled branchlets. 

 Leaves glabrous ; common petiole 2-4 in. long ; leaflets 7-9, oval or obovate, 

 •J-l in. long ; lateral nerves indistinct. Flowers large, greenish yellow, in 

 slender, drooping racemes. Pod membranous, inflated, about 2 in. long, hairy. 



Arid valleys of the iimer Himalaya. Ladak, Piti, Kunawar, Kamaon (8000- 

 11,500 ft.) n. July, Aug. Hardy in England. The pods open before they 

 ripen ; and in general appearance, also, the plant is different from the common 

 madder Senna (C. arborescens, Liim.) It is a subject for further inquiry 

 whether it is near C. orientalis, Miller (C. cruenta, Alton ; Boissier Fl. Orient, 

 ii. 195). 



6. SESBANIA, Pers. 



Herbs or small soft-wooded trees, of brief duration, with abruptly pin- 

 nate leaves, numerous deciduous leaflets, and middle or large sized flowers 

 in axillary racemes. Calyx broad-campanulate, with short, nearly equal 

 teeth. Petals distinctly unguiculate ; standard large, emarginate, oblong 

 or orbictdax j wings oblong. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform or 

 nearly so. Ovary multiovulate ; style glabrous, incurved ; stigma capitate. 

 Pod long, narrow, linear, dehiscent. 



Flowers i in. long ; leaflets linear-ohlong . . . 1. S. oegyptiaca. 

 Flowers 3 in. long ; leaflets oblong . . . . % 8. grandiflora. 



1. S. segyptiaca, Pers.; Wight Ic. t. 32; W. & A. Prodr. 214; 

 Boissier Fl. Orient, ii. 193. — Syn. JEsehynomene Seshan, Linn. ; Eoxb. 

 El. Ind. iii. 332. Sans. Jayanti, jaya. Vem. Jait, jhijan, janjhan, Pb. ; 

 Dlwrndidin, Eohilk. ; Jayanti, Beng. ; Shswarie, sheveri, Dekkan. 



A soft-wooded tree, 8-12 ft. high, of a few years' duration. Nearly 

 glabrous, extremities and young leaves slightly pubescent. Common 

 petiole unarmed, 4-6 in. long; leaflets opposite, 10-20 pair, on short 

 petioles, oblong-Hnear, |-1 in. long, blunt, with a faint inucro, the lowest 

 pair near the base. Eacemes lax, 6-12 flowered, nearly as long as leaves ; 

 pedicels spreading, longer than calyx. Calyx-teeth short triangular. 

 Petals J in. long, yellow, or orange and purple. Pod 6-8 in. long, narrow- 

 linear, valves convex, torulose ; seeds 20-30. 



Commonly cultivated and naturalised in many parts of India ; in the Paniab 

 as far as Peshawar. Ascends to 4000 ft. in the North-West Himalaya. Culti- 

 vated throughout the tropics ; wild iu tropical Africa. Fl. autumn and C.S. 

 Grown in the drier parts ef the Dekkan to furnish poles as a substitute for the 

 bamboo ; rope is made of the bark, the wood is used to boil Jaggery, and the 

 leaves and branches as cattle-fodder. On the rich alluvial banks of the Kistna 

 and Wama rivers in the Dekkan, which are submerged during the annual floods, 

 it is grown from seed as an annual, attaining 15-20 ft. in one season. In the 

 Sattara district it is grown with Melia Azedarach and Moringa pterygosperma 

 to shade and support the Betel vine, ifi thickets 20 ft. high. 



2. S. grandiflora, Pers.— Syn. Agati grandiflora, Desv. ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 215; JSschynQmene' grandiflora, Eoxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 330. Sans. 

 Vaka. Vern. Basna, Hind. ; Buka, Beng. ; Agati, Tamil. 



A short-lived, soft-wooded tree, attaining 20-30 ft. Nearly glabrous, 

 extremities and young leaves slightly pubescent. Common petiole im- 



