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262 L. LEGUMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) [Cassia, 



branchf^s, dense, Tinder half afoot long; bracts silky, lanceolate, persistent; pedicels 

 twice the length of the flower, lower deflexed. Sepals downy, j^^ in. Petals ob- 

 long, acute, ^-1 in. deep. Pod a ft. long, ^ in. thick. 



3. C. marg-lnata, So.vb. HorU Beng. 81 ; FL Ind. ii. 338 ; branchlete 

 densely tomentose, leaflets 30-40 small obtuse, racemes short subcorymbose, 

 bracts persistent, petals small reddish not veined. 0. Koxburghii, DC, P)'odr. 

 ii. 48f) ; WalL Cat 5308 ; W. Sf A. Prodr. 286 ; Bedd, FL Sylv. t. 180 ; Wight 

 Illust. t. 83. 



Ceylox and Western Peninsula, 



Branches slender, sulcata. Leaves {-I ft. long; leaflets oblong, deeply emarginate, 

 ■with a distinct niucro, 1-1^ in. long, rigidly suLcoriaceous, very oljliqne, strongly 

 veined, persistently grey-downy beneath. Flowers in copious short axillary racemes 

 and terminal panicles; bracts ovate-cuspidate; pedicels under 1 in. long. — Flowers 

 and pod like that of C. nodosa, but much smaller. 



4. C. renigrera, Wall Cot. 5307 ; branches densely pubescent, leaflets 

 30-40 moderately small obtuse 3-4 times as long as broad, flowers unknown, 

 Bevfh, in Tram, Linn, Soc, xxvii. 518 ; Kurz in Journ. Asiat, Sac. Beng, xlu* 



2,71. 



BiuMA.; Taong-donp; mountains and banks of the Irrawaddi, Wallich. 



Closely allied to C, marginata. Leaves 1 ft. long; leaflets close, nearh' ses- 

 sile, liguhite-oblong, 1^2 in. long, broadly rounded at both ends, slightly oblique^ 

 rigidly coriaceous, finely grey-downy below; stipules ohlong, cuspidate, large, meT"- 

 branou?, persistent, fastened above the base. Pod 1 foot long, cylindrical, indehiscen , 

 glal^rous. 



SvBGTiN. 2. Senna {Itoxh. ex jyarfe, as a genus). Sepals obtuse. Perfect 

 stamens 7, the anthers subequal or those of the 2-3 lowest larger than tne 

 others; three posterior filaments without anthei-s. Pods compressed, r&xm 

 terete, tbe seeds usually flattened parallel with the valves.— Some trees, some 

 shrubbv herbs. 



* Leaf ivith a single large gland placed just above the base of the comtnon 

 petiole, 



5. C. occidentalism Linn.x BC Prodr. ii. 407; leaflets 6-10 ovate- 

 oblong. Podb. Ilort. Benq. 31 ; W, Sf A. P-odr, 200 ; Bot, Peg. t. 83 ; Pj^i- 

 ^' Gibs. Bomb. FL 81. Senna occidentalis, Porb. FL Lnd. ii. 343. C. fotiaa, 

 Pers. Sgn. i, 457. 0. Sophera, WalL Cat. 5317, ex lyarte. 



iScattered from the Himalayas, to CeyloNj probably introduced. — Distbib- 

 -niopolitan in the tropics. . 



A diffuse subpjlabrous undershrub, a few feet high, usually only of annual '^ 

 tion. Lrares i ft. long; leaflets gbiucous, fcetid, acuniinate, 1-3 in. long, ^!|^/^^^." j^^^l 

 fiiu^ly pubescent. Pacevies short-pcduncled, few-flowered, corymbose, axillar} ' 

 forming a terminal panicle; bracts thin, ovate-acuminate, caducous; pedicels ^P^^|^ ^' 

 ^-f in. S'palsohXw^Q, glabrous, \-^ in. Petals \ in. pale lilac, conspicuously ^'^^^^^^ 

 Pod 4-5 in. by ^ in., rather recurved, glabrous, subcompressed, distinctly to 

 Seeds 15-30. 



■ a C. Sophera, Lhm. • DC. Prodr. ii. 492 ; leaflets 12-24 oWon^-lanceo^ 

 late. Ro.ib. Ilort. Bmq. 31 ; Wall. Cat. 5317, ex prrrte ; W. ^ A. r>odi-. ^' 

 Dah. ^- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 81. Senna Sophera, Roih. FL huh ii. 347. ^^^^j^ 

 leuta, Roxb. Fl. Ivd. ii. 346. Cassia esculenta, Roxb. HoH. Beng. 31. ^-.^ 

 neusis, Jacq. Ic. t. 73. 0. frutesceus, Mill. Bid. No. 2. 0. coroniandeiiH , 

 Jatq. Frngm. G7. t. IQO.—Rheede HoH. Mai. ii. t. 52. 





