Wagatea.] l. leguminos^. (J. G. Baker.) 2(31 



1. W. splcSLta, Balz. inKewJourn. iii.90; Wight Ic. t. 1995; Dalz.^ 

 Gibs. SornL FL SO. Osesalpinia mimosoides, Hei/Tie m Wall. Cat 5837, non 

 Lam. C. ferox, Jlohen. PL Ind. Or. Rvs. No. 414, nm Hassk. 



Hills of Western Peninsvla, 

 ^ A robust -woody prckly climber. Leaves ^~l ft. long and broad; pinnae 8-12; 

 leaflets 12-14, nearly sessile, oblong, obtuse, or subacute, 1-2 in. long, rigidly subcoria- 

 c^us, glabrous, yeuulose. Flowers in long simple or panicled dense subspicate 

 racemes with a thick furrowed woody finely brown -downy axis ; bracts minute, lan- 

 ^late-cuspidate. Calyx f in., scarlet. Petals orange. Pod like that of CcBsalpinia 



digyna, 



GiEDiTscHiA sinensis, Linn,; Wall. Cat.. 5811, is known in India in cultivation 



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only. 



103. CASSIA. Linn. 



Ei-ect shrubs or trees, ?arely herbs. Leaves simple, abruptly pinnate. Flmoers 

 J^Jially large and showy, in axillary racemes and terminal panicles. Calyx-- 

 (4we very short ; sepals broad or narrow, imbricated. FetaU 5, imbricated, sub- 

 «qaal, usually broad. Stamens nonually 10, but rarely all perfect, 3-5 being 

 onen reduced to staminodia or altogether absent ; anthers mostly but not inva- 

 nably basifixed, dehiscing by terminal pores or with the slit more or less con- 

 tjnued longitudinally. Omry sessile or stalked, raany-ovuled ; style incurved, 

 stigma terminal. Tod very variable, terete or flat, usually septate, the albmiii- 

 ^ seeds flattened, sometimes parallel with the valves, sometimes with the septa, 

 ;^, dehiscent or indehiscent.— Distrib. Species 340, spread everywhere in the 

 ?opics, a few extra-tropical. Monographed by Mr. Bentham in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc- ^-xvii. p. 503, t. 60.3. ^ ^ ^ 



Sttbgen. 1. Fistula, DC. (Cassia, i?o.?*.) S&pah oLtiise. Stamms all 



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*^ the filaments longer. Tods very large, terete, ^eccti" compressed parallel 

 ^tb tlae dissepiments.— Trees, 



totl' ^' ^*»*«la, Linn. • DC. Prodi: ii. 490; leaflets 8-10 large narrowed 

 We poiut, flowers in long lax racemes,, bracts caducous, petals veined bright 



■&'''J^^''-^-J^ort.Ben^. SI ■, Fl. Ind. ii. 383; Wall. Cat. 5302; W ^ A. 



/t*- 285; Dalz. ^- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 80 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 01. C. rliombiiulia, 

 •"'■ ^^°'-t- Jicny. 31 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 3.'34 ; Wi<jht. Ic. t. 269. 



in K^"''^^ ^^^ Eas^tkrn Himalayas to Ceylon and Malacca, ascending to 3000 ft. 



^MAON, wil.l and often planted.— Distkib. Cliina, Malay isles, 

 leaf! .'"''''''^■sized erect tree, gkLrous in all its parts. Leaves a foot or_ more long ; 

 ere^n . '"• ^'^°t?. ovate, distinctly .stalked, usuiilly acute, rigidly Hulioonaceous, pil« 

 W '^^°°gly veined. Racemes as \oug as the leaves ; pedicels spreading, 1| -.. in. 

 deep ^r ^~^ '"•' gl'^'j'-ous, caducous. PeUds obovate, shortly cLiwtd, ^1 ni. 



"« 1-2 ft. long, above an inch thick. 



shIiP; nodosa, Ham. ; lio.rb. Hort. Bmy. 31 ; Fl Ind. iii. 330 ; braiiches 

 Wctl^ "^"^^y' l^^«ets 12-24 moderately large pointed, racemes short c^i^mbc^e 

 ^S 5^""''^°*' petals moderately large reddish not vemed. Wall Cat. 5^31 , 



, ^*8TERN Himalayas and to Malacca.-Distrib. Malay isles, Philippines. 

 ac«u T- ^^^l»np a hefglit of .50 feet. Leaves a foot or more long ; leaflets oblong, 

 '^Cs'tr f f '^^-^ ^^■^^^^^' 2-4 in. long, rather oblique at the base, glossy subconace- 

 ' '^^"ngly veined, with a few obscure short hairs beloA^•. Racemes from the old 



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