Cassia, DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 335 
alternate, bifarious, pinnate, rather. more than a foot long, 
Leaflets from three to seven pair, opposite, short petiolet- 
ted, tapering equally at both ends, rhombiform, entire, 
obtuse, polished ; from two to four inches long, and from 
one to two broad. _—‘Petioles round, slender, no glands. 
Petioles vermicular. Racemes from the leafless branch- 
lets of the former year, also axillary, solitary, or in fasci- 
cles, pendulous. Flowers large, bright yellow, on long 
slender diverging pedicels. Bractes tern, lanceolate, very 
early caducous. Calyx of five, nearly equal, oblong, ob- 
tuse, concave, smooth leaflets. Petals five, nearly equal, 
spreading ; oblong, obtuse, concave. Filaments the lower 
three as long as the pistillum. They have a double 
curve at the base and ascend ina semicircle. Anthers 
on the three long filaments, oblong, and opening in two. 
lines on the face, those of the other seven clavate, with 
two pores at the smallend. Germ pedicelled, filiform, 
smooth, ascending in a semicircular curve, with the three 
long filaments, one-celled, in which are numerous seeds 
attached to the upper margin. Style short. Stigma minute, 
“Loment cylindric, pendulous, above two feet long, and 
Scarcely so thick as the little finger, having the sutures 
Sometimes strongly marked with Cortex dark brown, 
smooth, and hard,and the bristle as in C. fistula,many-cell- 
ed, about four in every inch, but not opening spontaneous- 
ly. Partitions lined with soft, black, bitterish pulp, Seeds 
one in each cell, round, obcordate, the size of a small pea. 
Integument simple, hard, and polished. Perisperm con- 
form to the seed, of a hard tough texture, and pale ash- 
colour, even while fresh. Embryo straight, pale yellow. 
Cotyledons nearly round, and so large as to extend to the 
integument all round, dividing the perisperm, Plumula 
of one pectinate lobe. -Radicle roundish, pape 4 
Within: the umbilicus, iM 
It differs from ©. fistula in the alison: of the leaves a 
more ‘Slenderloment, and general habit of the tree: 
