242 LEGZfMINOSM. rsESB4N-ii. 



sides with conspicuous black glandular dots. Fioiuers 10-30, in dense 

 long-peduncled heads Qtlyx ^ in.; taeth lanceolate, the lowest 

 longest, Ooro iZa little exserted, white or yellow with purple-tipped 

 keel. Fod small, subglobose, black, glabrous . 



Dehra-Dun, Oudh, Bundelkhand. Distrib.: Throughout India to Ceylon, 

 also in Burma The seeds are used as a remedy for leprosy. 



30. SESBANIA, Pers. ; Fl. Brit, ii, 114. 



Soft-wooded shrubs or herbs, with long very narrow abruptly 

 pinnate leaves. Leaflets very numerous, deciduous, linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, mucronate. Flowers in axillary raoemeg. Calyx campanulate, 

 shaliowly 2-lipped or 5-tao::hed. Corolla much exserted ; petals all 

 with long claws ; standard broad ; heel straio^ht and obtuse, or (in 

 Sub2:enus. Agati) recurved and subrostrate. Stamens 2-adelphous ; 

 anthers uniform, obtuse. Ovary stalked, linear, many-ovuled ; 

 style filiform, incurved, glabrous, stigma capitate. Fod very long, 

 narrow, dehiscent, septate between the numerous seeds, — Species about 

 20, spread throughout the tropics. 



Plowers small, yellow or spotted with purple. 



Perennial, unarmed . . . . 1. S, cegypHaca. 



Annual, prickly 2. S. aculeaia. 



'- Flowers large, white or pink. A soft-wooded 



tree 3. S. grandiflora. 



1. S. segyptiaca, Pers. Syn. ii, 316 ; W. Sf A. Prod. 214 ; Boyle III. 191; 

 :Brand. For. FL 137 ; F. B. I. ii, 114 ; Watt E. D. ; Prain in Journ. As. 

 8oc. Beng. LXVI,jpt 2 (1897), 367. iEschynomene Sesban, Linn.; Boxh. 

 FL Ind. Hi, 332. Vern. Jait. 



A glabrous unarmed soft-wooded shrub or small tree of short duration, 

 10-15 ft. high, with slender terete branches. Leaves 3-6 in. long; 

 leaflets many, f-1 in. long, linear- oblong, membranous, pale-green, very 

 shortly stalked. Flowers 6-10, in lax axillary racemes. Calyx ^ in., 

 with short deltoid teeth. Corolla i-t in. long, pale-yellow, often dotted 

 or tinged with purple. Pod 6-9 in. long, torulose, flexible and twisted. 



Planted or naturalized within the area. Distbib.: Throughout India, 

 , ascending to 4000 feet on the W. Himalaya, but not indigenous. It is 

 widely cultivated in the tropics of the Old World, and is believed to be 

 wild in tropical Africa. This plant is remarkable for its quick growth, 

 and for this reason it is often grown in hedges. It flowers during the ear- 

 ly part Ox. the co d season. Very excellent gunpowder charcoal is made 

 from its soft white wood. Its fibre is made into ropes, and the foliage 

 is valued as cattle-fodder. 



By the colour of the flowers three distinct forms may be recognized :— 

 1. typica, Prain I.e., in which the corolla is uniformly yellow ; 2. picta, 



