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SESBANIA picta. 
Spotted Seshania. 
DIADELPHIA DECANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. LEGUMINOSE. | ae Senge eee 
_ SESBANIA, Pers. Floresracemosi. Calyx dentibus zqualibus. Le- 
Bia elongatum, subcylindraceum, leviusculum, bivalve. Pers. syn. 2. 
s. picta ; foliis pinnatis, pinnulis linearibus obtusis, floribus racemosis, vex- . 
illo posticé picto. Pers. syn. 2. 316, 
ZEschynomene picta. Cav. ic. IV. t. 314. 
Sesbania gracillima. Hort. 
Caulis teres, orgyalis, glaber, uti tota planta; ramis alternis. Folia al- 
terna, pinnata, pinnulis utrinque fere 18, linearibus, obtusis, aliquando 
emarginatis, % pollicem longis; stipule subulate, marcescentes. lores ra- 
cemosi, racemis pendulis ; pedunculi partiales ad bracteolam brevem axillares, 
et prope calyces 2-bracteati; bracteolis subulatis deciduis. Cal. glaber, cam- 
panulatus, ore 5 dentato, dentibus brevibus subequalibus. Corolla lutea pa- 
pilionacea; vexillum orbiculatum, emarginatum, erecto-reflecum, posticd 
superficie variegatum punctis maculisque minimis nigricantibus : ale ovato- 
tmeares, basi falcate; carina alis brevior basi et apice bifida. Staminum 
. filamenta 10, alba, quorum unicum liberum, reliqua in vaginam fissam con- 
nexa, apice libera; anthere ovate, fusce. Germen lineare, teres. Stylus 
subulatus, ascendens ; stigma simplex. Legumen arcuatum, subteres, artt- 
culatum, articulis 16, plus minusve. Semina ovata. Cay. |. c. 
This is a very pretty plant, said by Cavanilles to be a 
native of New Spain and the Cape of Good Hope. The 
latter locality is probably erroneous. The plant from which 
our figure was taken was raised at Mr. Colvill’s Nursery; 
from seed received from Mr. D. Lockhart of Trinidad, 
under the name of Sesbania gracillima. The plants are now 
Six or seven feet high, and coming into full flower. They 
require the heat of the stove. ots 
Stem rounded, as high as a man, smooth, as are all parts 
of the plant; branches alternate. Leaves alternate, pinnate, 
with about 18 pinnulz on each side, which are linear, ob- 
tuse, sometimes emarginate, } an inch long; stipules sub- 
ulate, withering. Flowers in pendulous racemes. Bractes 
subulate, deciduous. Cal. smooth, campanulate, with five 
Short nearly equal teeth. Standard of the pale yellow co- 
rolla round, emarginate, from erect reflexed, mottled behind 
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