Sesbania .] xlvii. leguminos^e. 583 
Hab. Damp open spots. Perak, Temengoh. Perlis, Kanga. Dis¬ 
trib. Bengal, Burma, Java. 
Excluded Species 
S. grandiflora Pers. Synops. ii. 316; Prain, l.c. 84. Agati 
grandiflora Desv. Journ. Bot. i. 120, t. 4. 
Tall slender tree 20 to 30 ft. high, 8 to 10 in. through. Leaves 
6 to 12 in. long; leaflets 16 to 30 pairs, linear-oblong. 
Racemes 1 in. long. Flowers 2 to 4, white. Corolla 3 to 
3*5 in. long. Pods 20 in. long. Cultivated for its leaves, 
eaten as a vegetable and in Kelantan at Kota Bharu as 
props for pepper-vines. Singapore, Perak, Kelantan. 
Distrib. Mascarene isles to North Australia. Native 
name: Turi. 
S. coccinea Poir Encyc. vii. 127. 
A low shrub with similar leaves and deep rose-coloured flowers 
as large. Pods shorter, occasionally cultivated in gardens. 
Origin unknown. 
22 . PSORALEA, Linn. 
Herbs or under-shrubs. Leaves simple' (or pinnate) gland- 
dotted. Calyx-tube campanulate, 5-toothed. Corolla little exsert; 
petals all clawed, upper stamen free; anthers small uniform. 
Ovary sessile or short-stalked. Pod ovoid or oblong, i-seeded 
indehiscent; pericarp adhering to seed. Species 100, chiefly 
S. Africa, N. America and Australia. 
(1) P. Corylifolia Linn. Sp. PI. 764. Baker , in Hook. fit. 
F.B.I. ii. 103; Bot. Mag. t. 665. 
Herbaceous annual branched, about 2 ft. tall, hairy all over and 
black, gland-dotted. Leaves simple ovate denticulate, base shortly 
cuneate or round, tip sub-acute, 4-5 in. long, 3'2 in. wide; petioles 
i*5 in. long. Racemes axillary; peduncles 3 in. long. Flowers 
crowded in racemes i'5 in. long, yellow, 10 to 30. Calyx *12 in. 
long, sessile; teeth lanceolate. Corolla hardly exsert. Pod ’2 in. 
long, black, globose. Hab. Sporadic in waste ground. Singapore, 
Alexandra Road. Perak, Kamuning (Ridley). Distrib. India, 
Africa. 
23 . MILLETTIA, W. and Arn. 
Prain, l.c. 86; Dunn, Journ. Linn. Soc. xli. 123. 
Climbing shrubs or trees. Leaves imparipinnate 2 (rarely 1) 
to many leaflets. Panicles large or reduced to racemes of fascicles. 
Calyx campanulate; teeth short. Petals white or pink; standard 
ovate or orbicular; wings oblong. Stamens monadelphous (rarely 
diadelphous); filaments free at tip. Ovary sessile, rarely stipitate, 
3- to many-ovuled. Pod linear or oblong, coriaceous or woody, 
