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often in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels very short, bracts 
setaceous, plumose. Calyx *-Jin. deep, densely silky; teeth 
setaceous, lower exceeding the tube. Corolla pale red, not 
much exceeding the calyx. Pod l-lj in. long, l/6-l/5in. broad, 
densely, persistently white, velvety, much recurved, 6-8-seeded. 
Style glabrous, flattened, penicillate at the tip. 
Use.— In Pudukota, the juice of the leaves is given in dropsy. 
(Pharm. Ind.) 
363 . Sesbania cegyptica, Pers., h . f . b . i ., ii . 14 . 
Syn. — .^schynomene sesban, Linn., Roxb. 570. 
Sans. — Jayanti. 
Vern. — Jet rasin (H.) ; Ravasin (Dec.) ; Jayanti or Byojainti 
(B.) ; Shevari (Mar.) ; Jait, jaintar (Pb.) ; Champai, carcum 
chembai (Tam.) ; Kedangu (Mai.) ; Suiminta (Teh). 
Habitat. — From the Himalayas throughout the plains of 
India. 
A weedy, treedike herb, 6-10ft. high, or 15-20ft. at 
times, short-lived soft-wooded. Bark brown. Wood white, 
extremely soft. Leaves paripinnate, numerous rachis 2|-4in., 
slightly pilose, without prickles, furrowed above, swollen at 
base, 3-6ft. long. Leaflets 9-20 pair, linear-oblong, very 
shortly stalked, |-3in., obtuse, apiculate. glabrous or nearly so, 
rather glaucous. Branches nearly glabrous, young parts silky. 
Flowers few, rather large, on very slender pedicels, in very lax, 
slender, pendulous axillary, stalked racemes. Calyx glabrous, 
broad, companulate ; segment very shallow, acute. Pod 8-9in., 
pendulous, very narrowly linear, dehiscent, sharply beaked, 
usually somewhat twisted, weak, slightly torulose. Seeds 30 or 
more, greenish grey, separated by distinct transverse bars. The 
flowers are pale yellow, the standard dotted on the back with 
purple, or orange and purple (Brandis). 
Uses. — The author of the Makhzan says that the seeds 
reduce enlargement of the spleen (Dymock). The seeds are 
applied in the form of ointment to eruptions, for which the juice 
of the bark is also given internally. They are also said to be 
stimulant emmenagogues (Watt). 
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