Botanical Name - Sesbania

----- Sesbania, Pers.; F. B. I. II - 114.

----- Herbs, shrubs or short-lived trees. Leaves long, narrow, abruptly pinnate; laeflets numerous, deciduous, opposite, mucronate. Flowers showy, in axillary racemes. Calyx campanulate. Corolla much exserted ; petals with long claws. Stamens diadelphous ; anthers uniform. Pod long, narrow, dehiscent, with septa between the numerous seeds.