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3. 1 ephrosia ascendens. Suberect Tephrosia. 
Suffrutescent suberect, leaflets 5-6-paired with an 
odd one lineari-oblong slightly contracted towards 
the base apiculated appresso-pubescent beneath, ra- 
cemes terminal, legumes pendulous appresso-puberu- 
lous 5-6-seeded. 
HAB. Dry savannahs, South side of the Island. 
FL. October — January. 
Suffrutescent, 1—2 feet in height, ascending; branches com- 
pressed, striated, pubescent, subdivided. Leaflets, mucronato- 
apiculated, glabrous above, appresso-pubescent beneath : petiole 
3-gonal, striated, puberulous. Stipules lanceolate, pubescent. 
Racemes terminal, about 4 inches in length ; peduncle com- 
pressed. Flowers smaller than in the preceding species, of a 
pale purplish colour, 2-3 together, pedicelled, furnished with 3 
small lanceolato-subulate bracteas at the insertion. Calyx ex- 
ternally pubescent; upper lip bipartite for half the length, with 
the divisions approximating; under lip 3-partite for more than 
half the length. Standard externally sericeo-puberulous : 
wings cohering for the greater part of their length to the keel. 
Stamens with the l Oth subaccrete to the rest. Ovary lineari- 
oblong, compressed, puberulous : stigma ciliated. Legume pen- 
dulous, 1^ inch in length, appresso-puberulous, 5-6 seeded. 
X. Sesbania. 
Calyx 5-fid or 5-dentate, with the lobes subequal. 
Corolla, with the standard larger than the keel, sab- 
rotund, folded up ; keel obtuse, 2-clawed at the base. 
Stamens diadelphous (9 and 1 ), with a subauriculated 
sheath at the base. Legume elongated, slender, com- 
pressed or subcylindrical, contracted between the 
seeds, but, from the sutures being incrassated, not 
truly articulated. 
Shrubs or herbaceous plants ; leaves abruptly pinnated; ra- 
cemes axillary ; flowers yellow — Name from an Arabic word. 
1. Sesbania muricata. Prickly Jamaica Sesbania. 
Fruticose, branches angulated aculeolato-muricated, 
as also the petioles, leaflets 30-50-paired linear mu- 
cronate subglabrous, racemes 2-8-flowered. 
HAB. Between the 15th and 16th mile-stone, on the Wind- 
ward road. 
FL. September — January. 
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