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Sesbania aegyptiaca, Pers. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 134. 



III.— Rheede, Hort. Mai. vi. t. 27; Bot. Reg. (1825), t. 873 

 (S. picta) ; Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 38, f . 9 (pod and seeds) ; Wight, Ic. 

 PL Ind. Or. i. t. 32. 



Vemac. names. — Turi - abang ; Rumpat Kakatjangan (Java, 

 Tropenpfl. 1902, p. 427) ; Maweengo-weengo (Madi, Grant). 



In India the juice of the bark, the leaves, seeds and root are used 

 for various medicinal purposes (Diet. Econ. Prod. India), the wood 

 is used for poles, and to make gunpowder charcoal ; the bark is 

 made into rope and the leaves and branches used as a cattle fodder 

 (Gamble, Man. Indian Timb. p. 235). 



Used as a fodder in Java (Tropenpfl. 1902, p. 427). 



The natives of Madi put the seeds into a gourd which they use as 

 a rattle when herding cattle (Grant, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 1872, 

 p. 57). 



Re/. — "Sesbania aegyptiaca" in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, vi. 

 2, pp. 543-544. 



Sesbania punctata, DC. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 133. 



Vemac. names. — Zamarke (Katagum, Dalziel) ; Tawri (Arabic, 

 Muriel) ; Sabral (French Guinea, Moloney). 



Nupe ; Katagum ; Lokoja ; Bornu ; Chad Region ; and widely 

 distributed in Tropical Africa, India, &c. 



Hausa natives use a decoction of the leaves for washing animals, 

 as a preventive of the bite of the tsetse fly (Richardson, Herb. Kew). 



Recommended for growing as a green manure. At Westacre, in the 

 Matoppos, Rhodesia, land on which this plant had grown, gave better 

 crops of Lucerne and oats than elsewhere (Rhodesian Agric. Journ. 

 June, 1909, p. 567). Forms dense impregnable hedges (Parsons, Herb. 

 Kew). 



May be propagated by seed. 



Found growing as a small shrub on sand banks in Nupe (Barter, 

 Herb. Kew) ; a very common river shrub, about 10 feet high, over- 

 hanging Nigerian streams (Parsons, Herb. Kew) ; at an altitude of 

 5000-6500 ft. Aberdare Range, B. E. Africa (Battiscombe, Herb. 

 Kew) ; 6000-7000 ft. Nyika Plateau (Whyte, Herb. Kew) ; grows 

 10 to 12 feet high in damp marshy places, Angola, where it is 

 common in the interior but scarce near the sea (Monteiro, Herb. 

 Kew). 



Ref. — " Sesbania punctata" Nobbs, in Rhodesian Agric. Journ. 

 June, 1909, p. 567 ; (Reprint in Agric. News, Barbados, 1909, p. 271). 



HEDYSARUM, Linn. 



Hedysarum coronarium, Linn. Sp. PL (1753), p. 750.. 



A perennial plant, deep rooted, 1-6 feet high, stems ascending, 

 pilose. Leaflets 2-5-paired, large, elliptic or obovate, glabrous above, 

 appressed silky pubescent below. Inflorescence a many flowered 

 raceme ; flowers scarlet or dark red. 



IlL—Fl. des Serres, t. 1382 ; Rchb. Ic. Fl. Germ. xxii. t. 2246, f. 1. 



Sulla ; Le Sainfoin a bouquets ; Sainfoin d'Espagne ; French 

 Honeysuckle. 



A valuable fodder plant, grown in S. Europe. This plant was 

 recommended for trial in Lagos some years ago (Kew, 18th March, 

 1892), but no records of any success are available. 



