1897,] G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Feninsula. 8S 
2 in. in diam. full of white soft pith, quite uimrmed as are the leaf 
rachisea. Leaves 4-J2 in. long, sesBile, leaflets 10-30 pairs dark-greea 
sparingly hirsute above. Racemes droopitig 8-12-fld,, 4-5 in. long eqna!- 
iing or sligbfcly exeeediiig tlie leaves in wbose axils tliey arise. Flowefs 
yellow the standard externally dotted with small purple spots '75 in. 
long. Fods 10-12 in. long flexible with strong not indented smtures 
always pendulous and always twisted, S, (jramHpyra Miq. Flor. Ind. 
Bat, I, 2B8, not of Pers. S. cochinchinenm Knrz Journ. As, Soo. Beng. 
XliV, 2, 271, not of DC, -S. ptmcfata Benth. MSS. in Herb. Kew, not 
of DC. S. aculeaia var, paliulosa Bak. in Flor. Brit, Ind. II, 115 (in part 
only and excluding the ayn. Aeschjnomene iilifiinosa}. Aeschijnomene 
palud^sa Roxb, Hort. Beng. 56; Flor. Ind. Ill, 333, not ^S'. palndosa Jacq, 
Kedau • optjn marsljy ground near rice-fields, Kttndler 1712! 
DiSTRiB. Bengal I Burma j China; Java. 
Boxbni'gh, who knew tbo Bmi^al Sesbanias woll, baa left of moat oF them, 
Tinker tho nnmo of Aeschynom^nef nnmiatakoablo de*scripfc.iotiB and fignrPB which 
eabsequent Indian botanietB have for Bomo reaeoti treated with little oonsideration. 
A Cflfoful examiiifttioii of living plants ahows, howoTor, tLat Roxborgb's treatment of 
t be forms is probably accarato, and his vie wa of tho iimitiition of tho apeciea are 
certainly preferable to any that have stitice been propoeod. 
Tho present species is the faxtiiliar Kathsola (as opposed to tho trae So/a which 
is Aeschyjiomene asperaj^ eo common in marshes throaghoat tho Gangetio Delta, 
Though recognised as distinct by Frof. Miquol, that nathor nnfovtnnat^jly has 
* used ft specific name that is pre*oocapied in the (j^euus. Ifr. Kurz tlionght it might 
be CoTonilla cochinchinensis Lonr, bnt that Bpeeies has erect totuloso pods and th© 
identification ia therefore impoaaible. Mr. Bentham baa suggested its being Scsbania 
pmtctutahai the pods and the stem strnctnre forbid this identification also. As 
Sesbania paludosa Jacq. is not tiiia species but ia Roxburgh's Aeschynomene Jthginosa 
it seema best to conserve Koxburgh's specific epithet paludosa for tbo vory distinct 
plant to which ho orlginfiUy applied ii>» 
Dr, Kuntae (Rev, Qen. Plant. I, 181) woald ro*^nco this to Sestonta affl'^^pitoca / 
an excellent instance of the ansoientiflti use of the imagination, 
2. Sesbania CAKNABiNA Pers, Syuops, II, 316. A tall and slender 
unarmed woody herb, stems reaching 20 feet in height witbout exceeding 
'5 in. in diam, at base. Leaves 2-3 in. long, sessile ; leaflets 8-20 pairs, 
glabrous, veiy dark green, Jiareme^ short (under 1 in.) hut distinctly 
pediincled, 2-4-fld. ; flowers yellow, the standard extenially closely 
purple-streaked, '4 in. long. Pods very often solitary rarely more than 
2, spreading or pendulous rarely erect, 4-8 in. long; sutures stout 
straight, Talvea not depressed between the seeds. DC. Prodr. II, 265; 
Miq. FJor. Ind. Bat. II, 286, excliidiiig syn. S, cannahiua W. & A. 
S. afinis Sclirad. in DC. Prodr, II, 265. S. pohjphylla Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. 
II, 288. 8. actdeata var. cannaUna Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 115. 
Retz. Obs. Y, 2a ; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 335. 
