LEGUMINOS#-PAPILIONACE. 267 
74. Sesbania Prrs.'—Receptacle depressed obconical, thickly 
glandular within. Calyx gamosepalous; tube broad truncate or 
equally 5-toothed or 5-lobed. Petals much imbricated ; standard 
ovate or orbicular, patent or reflexed; wings falcate-oblong; keel 
furnished with a rather long claw, curved. Stamens 10, 2-adel- 
phous (9-1), vexillary stamen a little thickened or geniculate above 
base; anthers uniform or 5-alternate a little longer. Germen 
usually stipitate «-ovulate; style curved glabrous, stigma small, 
evenly or unevenly capitate. Legume linear wingless; margins 
usually thick (Husesbania); compressed or subterete, 4-gonous or 
A-winged (Daubentonia*), more rarely short few-seeded; margins 
acute (Glottidium’) ; transversely septate within by intrusion of the 
often separable endocarp between the seeds; seeds transversely 
oblong or square, exarillate— Herbs or shrubs; leaves paripinnate o0- 
foliolate ; stipels minute or 0; stipules membranous, usually 
caducous; flowers* handsome, sometimes very large (Agah’) in loose 
axillary racemes; bracts and bractlets setaceous, usually very cadu- 
cous (AU hotter regions’). 
75. Microcharis Benru.’—Flowers almost those of Sesbania, 
very small; calyx gamosepalous to a considerable height; lobes 5, 
somewhat unequal, long acute. Standard suborbicular, narrowed 
into a claw; wings oblique ; keel a little shorter than wings, obtuse, 
stamens 10, l-adelphous at base; vexillary stamen afterwards free ; 
anthers uniform. Germen sessile, m-ovulate; style short, rather 
broad and compressed; apex thick capitate, rather compressed, 
stigmatiferous. Legume linear compressed slender submembranous, 
thinly stuffed within between seeds, 2-valved. Seeds oblong or 
square, exarillate——Herbs, slender branched, rather shaggy all over ; 
1 Syn., ii. 316 (part).—DC., Prodr,, ii. 265.— 
ENDL, Gen. u. 6551.—B. H., Gen. 502, 
n. 118.—Sesban Potr., Dict., vii. 127.,—? Dar- 
winia RaFin., Fl. Ludov., 106.—? Monoplectrum 
RaFin., Loe. cit. 
2 DC., Mém. Légum., 285; Prodr., ii. 267.— 
Enpt., Gen., n. 6554. 
3 Drsvx., Journ. Bot., i. 119, t. 1.—DC., 
Prodr., ii, 266.—EnDL., Gen., n. 6550. 
4 White, yellow, purplish red, or variegated. 
5 Rugepe, Hort. Malab., i. 95, t. 51, ex 
Desvx., loc. cit., t. 4, fig. 6e—DC., Prodr., ii. 
266.—ENDL., Gen., n. 6553. 
§ Species about 15. Rumpu., Herb, Amboin., 
i. t. 76 (Agati).—Cav., Icon. t. 314 (Zschy- 
nomene), 316 (Piscidia).—Jcq., Icon. Rar.,t. 148 
(Robinia), 564 (Zischynomene)—H. B. K., Nov. 
Gen. et Spec., vi. 583.—GUILL. & Prrr., Fl. 
Seneg. Tent., i. 197, t. 50.— Wieur, Icon., 
t. 32.—Bentu., in Mart. Fl. Bras., Papil., 42, 
t.7; Fl. Austral., ii, 212.—K1., in Pet. Reis. 
Moss., Bot., t. 8.—A. Gray, in Amer. Expl. 
Exped., Bot., t.46 (Agati).— Bot. Reg., t. 873.— 
Baker, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 188.—WALP., 
Rep., i. 680; ii. 858; Ann., iv. 492. 
7 Gen., 501, n. 117. 
