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2. Agati tomentosa, Null, in Herb. Hook, (Tab. 46.) 



A. sericeo-tomentosa, demum glabrescens ; caulibus reclinatis ; foliolis 

 S-12-jugis supra glabris ; calyce cyathiformi; leguminibus teretius- 

 culis torulosis folia cequantibus apice longe rostratis. 



Sesbania tomentosa, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 286, excl loco natali. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands. District of Waianae, Oahu. Coast of 

 Hawaii, east of the crater Lua Pele. Also collected, principally on 

 Oahu, by Lay and Collie, Douglas, Gaudichaud, Nuttall, &c. 



A woody plant, with decumbent stems, "from 15 to 20 feet in 

 length;" the branches, foliage, &c, silky-tomentose when young, but 

 glabrate with age. Leaves abruptly pinnate, from 4 to 7 inches long, 

 very short-petioled. Leaflets 8 to 12 pairs, oblong-elliptical, from 7 to 

 14 lines long, 3 or 4 lines wide, pale, minutely black-dotted and gla- 

 brous above, minutely silky-pubescent underneath even when old, 

 retuse, usually more decidedly mucronate than those of A. grandi- 

 flora, otherwise very similar, except as to the pubescence; the rhachis 

 pubescent. Stipules minute, caducous. Inflorescence as in A. grandi- 

 flora: the peduncles short, about three-flowered. Pedicels half an 

 inch to an inch long, mostly longer than the peduncle. Bracts and 

 bractlets minute, caducous. Flowers one-third or less than half the 

 size of those of A. grandiflora, and with a proportionally shorter 

 cyathiform calyx, which, like the pedicels, &c, is minutely silky- 

 pubescent; the broad teeth subulate-pointed. Corolla "yellow or 

 red, as brightly coloured as in A. grartdiflora ;" the moderately falcate 

 carina and alse from an inch to an inch and a quarter long : vexillum 

 orbicular, emarginate, reflexed, when spread out little shorter than 

 the carina. Stamens and pistil nearly as in A. grandiflora. Legume 

 nearly terete, at least when mature, although compressed when young, 

 5 or 6 inches long, U to 2 lines wide, glabrous, usually tondose, and 

 occasionally constricted at intervals, slightly stipitate in the nearly 

 persistent calyx, conspicuously rostrately pointed, multilocellate, de- 

 flexed, as long as the leaves. Seeds from 8 to 20, oblong, compressed, 

 shining. 



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