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264 L. LEGHMiNOSiE. (J. G. Baker.) [Cassia. 



Flowers very large and showy, an inch deep, bright yello'w, in copious corymbose ra- 

 cemes. Fod 4-5 in. long by ^-| in., straight, ligulate, glabrous, flexible, dark brown, 

 with a distinct space between the uniseriate seeds. 



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9. C. obovata, Collad Hist. Cass. 92, t. 16, A; stipules lanceolate 

 persistent, leaflets 8-12, racemes narrow^ pod flat oblong much recurved ^yith a 

 crest on the middle of the valve opposite each seed. Wall, Cat. 5310 ; Botss. FL 

 Orient ii. 631. C. Senna, Linn. Sp. Plant. 639, ex parte. 0. obtusa, Hoxh, 

 Ifort. Beng. 31 ; W. ^' A. Frodr. 288 ; Wight. Fc. t 757. Senna obtuaa, Boxb. 

 FL Fnd. ii. 34-4. 0, Burmanni, Wight in Madras Journ. vi. t. 5. 



Punjab, Scinde, Western Peninsula. — Distjrib. Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia. 



Subglabrous, scarcely shrubby, 1-4 ft. high. Leaves distinctly petioled, 2-3 m. 

 long ; leaflets obovate-oblong, membranous, very glaucous, obtuse, witJi a minute 

 mucro, ^1^ in. Bacemes distinctly peduncled, equalling or exceeding the leaves; 

 pedicels very short. Sepals glabrous, very obtuse. Corolla middle-sized, pale yellow. 

 StaTrmis very unequal. Pod thin, glabrous, flexible, 1-I| in. by |-| in, short-stalked, 

 narrowed suddenly at both ends, 6-12-seeded; sutures very thin. — C. angustifolu, 

 VahL (C. lanceolata, Wall Cat. 5318, Roi^le III t. 37, W, ^^ A. Prodr. 288 ; Senna 

 officinalis, Roxb. FL hid, ii. 346), with 10-16 oblong-lanceolate acute leaflets and 

 nearly straight oblong pods without crests, is a native of Tropical Africa and has no 

 claim to be considered indigenous in India. 



10. C. alata, Linn.\ DC. Prodr. ii. 492; stipules deltoid persistent, 

 leaflets 16-28 large, racemes narrow, pod long ligulate with a broad wing down 

 the middle of each valve. Roxb. Sort. Beng. 31 ; WaU. Cat. 5301 ; W. ^' ^' 

 Prodr. 287 ; Wight Fc. t. 253. Senna alata, Boxb. FL Ind. ii. 349. C. hrac- 

 teata, Linn.JiL ; DC. loc. cit. G. herpetica, Jacq. Obs, ii. 24^ t^ 45, fig. 2. 



Lower Bexgal, Western Peninstii^, Bikma and Malacca. — Distrib. Cosmo- 

 politan in the tropics, 



A shrub, with very thick finely downy branches. Leaves subsessile, 1-2 ft. long; 

 leaflets oblong, obtuse, 2-6 in. loAg, minutely mucronate, rigidly subcoriaceous, gla- 

 brous or obscurely downy beneath, broadly rounded, oblique at the base ; racbis nar- 

 roMly winged on each side of the face. Pacemes pedunclcJ, ^-1 ft. ; bracts large, mem- 

 branous, caducous. Corolla yellow, very distinctly veined. Stamens very unequiil' 

 Pod membranous, dehiscent, straight, glabrous, 4-8 m. by |~| in. Seeds 50 or more. 



11. C. siamea, F.a7}U', DC Prodr, ii. 490; stipules minute caducous, 

 leaflets 12-28 with a minute mucro, racemes corymbose forming a long en 

 panicle, pod ligulate flat not Avinged, the sutures slightly thickened. C. flonaa, 

 Vahl ; DC. Prodr, ii. 499 ; W, ^ A, Prodr. 288 ; Bedd, FL Sylv. i. 179. ^• 

 sumatrana, Boxb. Hort, Beng, 31 ; DC. Prodr. ii. 50G; WalL Cat. 5305. beima 

 ftumatrana, Boxb. FL Fnd. ii. 347. 



Wkstkrn Peninsxjiji., Ceylon, Maiayan Pkntnstjla and Siam. — Distrib. Ma ay 

 isles. ^ 



A low tree, with virgate finely grey-downy terete brancblets. Leaves $-1 ; » 

 leaflets oblong, glaucous, subcoriaceons, emarginate, strongly veined, subglabrous, i 

 tinctly stalked, 2-3 in. long. Corymbs crowded, both axillary and in a ^^^fj^^ 

 panicle ^-1 ft. long, with grey -pubescent branches. %;a/5 downy, "^'®^, -w 

 Petals middle-sized, bright yellow, not veined. Stavicns subequal. Pod J^f\ -j^ 

 straight, flat, distinctly st-ilked, 6-9 in. by \ in., firmer in texture and M'ith thicK 

 sutures than in the two next. 



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