Sesbania longifolia DC.

Daubentoniopsis longifolia (Cav.) Rydb. Am. Jour. Bot 10: 497. 192*3.
Aeschynomene longifolia Cav. Ic. 4: 8. 1797.
Aeschynomene longifolia Ortega, Dec. 70. 1S00.
Piscidia longifolia Willd. Sp. PI. 3: 920. 1803.
Daubentonia longifolia DC. M6m. Leg. 286. 1823.
Sesbania longifolia DC. Prodr. 2: 265. 1825.
Sesbania Cavanillesii S. Wats. Bibl. Index 258. 1878; Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 342, in part, as to
synonym. 1882. Emerus longifolius Kuntze, Rev. Gen. 181. 1891. Sesbania mexicana Pollard, Bull. Torrev Club 24: 154. 1897. Sesban mexicanus Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 23: 476. 1922.
A shrub; branches glabrous or strigose above, terete; stipules linear-lanceolate, yellowish, sericeous, caducous; leaves 1-1.5 dm. long; leaflets 14-20, oblong-lanceolate, acute at each end, cuspidate, glabrous or strigulose beneath when young; racemes 7-14 cm. long, 5-13flowered; pedicels 1.5-2 cm. long; calyx 6-8 mm. high, 7-9 mm. broad; lobes broadly triangular, 1 mm. long, broader than long, acute; corolla 15-18 mm. long; pod coriaceous, the stipe about 2 cm. long, the body 6-8 mm. long, 6-7 mm. wide, tapering at each end, the beak less than 1 cm. long; seeds dull-brown, 7 mm. long, half as high.
Type locality: Mexico.
Distribution : Jalisco.