. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 376 24. SESBAN Adans. Fam. PL 2: 327. 1763. [Sesbania Scop. Introd. 308. Herbs or shrubs, with evenly pinnate leaves, the leaflets numerous, entire, not stipellate, or the stipels minute. Flowers yellow, reddish, purplish or white, in axillary or lateral racemes, the slender pedicels with 2 deciduous bractlets under the calyx. Calyx campaiuilate, nearly equally
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. 376 24. SESBAN Adans. Fam. PL 2: 327. 1763. [Sesbania Scop. Introd. 308. Herbs or shrubs, with evenly pinnate leaves, the leaflets numerous, entire, not stipellate, or the stipels minute. Flowers yellow, reddish, purplish or white, in axillary or lateral racemes, the slender pedicels with 2 deciduous bractlets under the calyx. Calyx campaiuilate, nearly equally s-toothed. Standard broad, ovate or orbicular; wings oblong, falcate; keel blunt. Stamens diadelphous (9 and \). Ovary mostly stipitate, many-ovuled; style glabrous; stigma small. Pod elongated-linear, wingless, compressed, partitioned between the oblong seeds. [Name Arabic] About 15 species, natives of warm and tropical regie America. Type species : Aeschynomene Sesban L. only the following 1 in North. I. Sesban macrocarpa Muhl. Pea-tree. Long- podded Sesban. Fig. 2529. Sesbaitia macrocarpa Muhl.; Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 221. iS-'I. Annual, glabrous, widely branching, 4°-i2° tall. Leaflets 10-35 pairs, oblong, obtuse, mucronate, thin, l' long or less, 2"-3" wide, pale beneath; racemes shorter than the leaves, i-s-flowered; calyx-teeth subulate, shorter than the tube; corolla yellowish, purple-spotted, the standard 8"-io" long; pod 6'-i2' long, about 2" wide, somewhat curved, drooping, tipped with the subulate style. In wet or moist soil, Missouri to Texas. Arizona, east to South Carolina and Florida, south to Central Amer- ica. Collected also in southern Pennsylvania and in ballast deposits on Staten Island, New York. June- Sept. Coliitea arborescens L., a European shrub, with odd- pinnate leaves, yellow flowers in short racemes, and much inflated membranous pods, is reported as escaped from cultivation in eastern Massachusetts. 25. GEOPRUMNON
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