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FLORA OF ADEN. 
1. Sesbania grandiflora Pers. Syn. II (1807) 316; Bedd. EL Sylv. 
86 : Brand For. FI. 137 ; Hook. FI. Brit. Ind. II, 115. 
Aeschynomene grandiflora Linn. Sp. 1050 ; Roxb. FI. Ind. Ill, 331. 
Agati grandiflora Desv. Journ. Bot. I (1813) 120. 
Coronilla grandiflora Willd. Sp. Ill, 1145. 
Description : — A short-lived soft wooded tree, 20-30 feet high, with 
virgate terete branches ; leaves | — 1 foot long; leaflets 41 — 61, linear- 
oblong, pale green, glabrous. 
Flowers 2 — 4 in short axillary racemes. Calyx 1 inch deep, 
glabrous, shallowly 2-lipped. Corolla 3 — 4 inches deep and very showy, 
white or red. 
Pod 1 foot long more or less, not torulose, the sutures much 
thickened. 
Flowers : — December (Defiers, Schweinf.). 
Distribution .’—Mauritius to North Australia, but often cultivated. 
7. Taverniera DC. 
Shrubs with fleshy-herbaceous, simple or piannately 3-foliate leaves ; 
stipules scarious. Leaflets usually obovate or orbicular, exstipellate. 
Flowers in axillary lax racemes. Calyx with a campanulate tube 
and 5 sub-equal teeth. Corolla much exserted, standard broadly-obovate, 
narrowed at the base ; wings small, keel about equal to the standard, 
obliquely truncate at the apex. Upper stamen free at the base or 
altogether ; anthers uniform. Ovary stalked, 1 — 3 ovulate, style 
filiform, indexed, stigma terminal. 
Pod of 1 — 3 flattened indehiscent muricated joints. Seeds reniform. 
Species about 8. 
Distribution : — Egypt, Abyssinia, Arabia, N.-W. and W. India. 
Racemes 5— 10-flowered . . . . . . 1. T. glauca. 
Racemes 2— 6-flowered . . . . . . 2. T. Schimperi. 
1. Taverniera glauca Edgew. Journ. Asiat. Soc. Beng. XYI, 
1214; Anders. Journ. Linn. Soc. Y, Suppl. p. 17. 
Description : — A glabrous shrub. Leaves unifoliate, fleshy, glabrous, 
glaucous, rhomboid-ovate, suborbicular, emucronate; stipules 2, small, 
scarious, cuneate, acute. 
Racemes 5 — ■ 10-flowered ; bracts shorter than the pedicels, acute, 
with membranous margins. Yexillum large, concave, subcarinate, 
shortly emarginate and callous-inucronulate ; wings narrow, falcate, 
ellinfic, truncate-auriculate at the base, with a short thin claw much 
