Cassia. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 333 
tioles but stipulate at the base. Flowers on axillary ra- , 
. cemes. Calyx of five equal leaflets, Corol of five nearly 
equal petals. Stamina very unequal; the three Jower fi- 
laments much longer. than the rest, with a double curve 
below the middle, and in two of them, a large swelling 
at the middle. Loment cortical, cylindric, pendulous, 
many-celled, with one seed in each. Embryo straight, 
furnished with a hard perisperm, large, roundish Cotyle- 
and a centrifugal radicle, 
BDO, fistula, Willd. 2. p. 518. 
‘Leaflets about five pair, ovate oblong. Rucomi panda 
lous. Loment cylindric, pendulous ; partitions lined with 
soft sweet pulp. 
Sans. Soovurnuka. 
_ Beng. Soondali. 
Hind. Umultuss. 
Teling. Rela. 
Conna. Rheed. Mal. 1. t. 22. 
A native of various parts of the East Indies, as well, I 
presume, as of the west; as young trees reared from 
West India seed, now ten years old, do notin any 
respect differ from these of the East, both are now, April, 
in full flower, and the seeds are ripe about nine, or ten 
months afterwards. ! 
Trunk short. Bark smooth,ofa light net Branch- 
ésnumerous, spreading in every direction ; general height 
of full grown trees from twenty to thirty feet. Leaves al- 
ternate, bifarious, pinnate, from twelve to eightecn inches. 
long, deciduous in the cool season, and appearing with 
the blossoms in April. Leaflets from four to eight pair, five 
the most common, opposite or nearly so, short petioletted, 
the inferior ones broad-ovate, the superior ones. oblong, 
entire, generally obtuse or emarginate, polished on both 
Sides, from two to six inches long and from ane anda alt 
to three broad, Petioles round, without glands. pets 
