100 Sesbania macrocarpa. 



Stipules in pairs, lanceolate, or hastate, membranaceous, yellow- 

 green. Racemes axillary, shorter than the leaves, from two to 

 four-flowered. Flowers primrose-yellow — rarely expanded more 

 than represented in the plate. Vexillum gall-stone-yellow in- 

 side, outside primrose-yellow. Carina orange-yellow, striped with 

 carmine-red. Wings orange-yellow, striped with purple. Legume 

 from seven to eight inches long, less than two-eighths of an inch 

 broad, slightly arcuate, stipitate,mucronate, compressed, maculated, 

 and pitted by longitudinal depressions ; invested within by a straw- 

 yellow, shining, membranaceous lining, and divided transversely by 

 about thirty-nine partitions. Seeds ihirty-nine or forty, kidney- 

 shaped, umber-brown, an eighth of an inch long and somewhat less 

 in breadth, pitted on either side by a deep depression. Hiluni 

 white. Flowers in August, and continues in bloom about six weeks 

 or two months. Grows in the neighborhood of St. Louis and New 

 Orleans. The drawing was taken from a vigorous living plant raised 

 by Messrs. Landreth last summer from seeds furnished by Mr. Nut- 

 tall, and it has been carefully compared with several fine dried spe- 

 cimens received from New Orleans. 



Pursh, very properly objecting to the inadmissible generic name 

 Sesban^substituted that of Sesbania, which,though still faulty, is rather 

 better than the first, given by Poiret to a genus selected by him out of 

 ^Eschynomene. That botanist referred the Lin nam JE. grandiflora, 

 coecinea, and Sesban, to this newly-formed genus, but it has since 



