82 G, King —Materiab for a Flora of the Malayan Fminsula. [No. 1, 
Bidhij! A native apparently of the Old World ; often cultivated and 
occasionally occnriug as an escape. 
4, iNDiGOPKftA GALEGioiDES DC. Prodr. 11, 225. A tall shrub, 
reaching 8 feet high, with twiggy woody branches at first ad pressed- 
pubescent at letigth glahreacent Leaves distinctly petioled, 8-12 in. 
long ; petioles *5-2 in. ; leaflets terminal and in 6-12 lateral pairB, 
oblong obtuse, of varying size generally '5 in, long by '3 in. aerosa but 
sometimes 1-2 in. long^ membranous^ green above glaucescent beneath 
very ohscarely adpressed hirsute ; stipules distinct, stipela niinute- 
Racemm 2—3 in. long, short-peduncled^ very dense-fld. Calyx '04 in. long, 
hoary^ teeth very short, deltoid. Corolla pale-red '4i-*5 in,, finely canea- 
cent externally. Pods glabrous 2'5-3 Jn. long, cylindric, straight, beaked, 
15-18-8eeded. Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 310 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 
100. J. u?ic{nata Uoxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 382 ; Wall. Cat. 5472. 1. Finlay- 
soniana Wall. Cat, 5488. 
Mi LAY Peninsula; Perak; Kiinstler.SlGl Malaccn, Grifdh! Lang- 
kawi, Gfcriis, 2SG5 ! Distrib. Ceylon; lodo-China; S.China; Philip- 
pines ; Malay Archipelago. 
Yory easilj disfcingufsiied froin otber species bj the fact that its pods inetoad 
of Bpreading or being reflexed, are fastigiateJy grouped with tUeir apices pomtiug 
in the direction of fcho apes of the pedunole. Ifc is often planted for ornament and 
IB perhaps not reallj native in Malaya. 
24. Sesbanta Pera. 
Soft-wooded shrubs or trees with long, very narrow abruptly * pin- 
nate leaTes with very Bumerous deciduous linear-oblong obtuse mucronate 
leaflets. Floioers in axillary racemes. Calyx eampanulate shallowly 2- 
lobed or 5-fcoothed. Corolla much eiserted; petals all with long elaws; 
standard broad keel straight and obtuse or subrostrate and recurved. 
Btamena 2-fideIphous ; anthers uniform. Ovanj stipitate, linear, many- 
ovuled ; style fliiform, incurved glabrous; stigma capitate, Fod very 
long and narrow, dehiscent ; septate between the very many seeds. 
Species about 40, cosmopolitau in the tropics. 
Flowers small, bud straight (| E\i>Beshan\a)', annaal sVirubs ;— 
Fod twisted pendnlouB; 8tem4 thiok pith^like^ flewexs '75 
in, long ... ... ... ... 1. S. faludGSa. 
Pod not twieted usiaally oBcending; stems woody very 
Blender J (lowers '4 in. long ... ... ... 2. S. cannabttia. 
Flowers large, biid falcately recurved (| Agaii)s a tree ,.. 3. S. grandifiora. 
1. Se5Bau(A paludosa Roxb. Hort. Beng. 56 {mh Aeschynomene). 
A large tree-like herb with annual stems reaching 12 feet in height, 
* By an anfortannito oversight thia character is not made prominent in the Keyi 
In the tribes and genera,, p. 22 and p. 33. 
