336 - DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cassia, 
3. C. nodosa. Buch. 
Leaves bifarious ; leaflets ten- -paired, oblong. | Stipules 
obliguely crescent-shaped, with a bristle. at each angle. 
Racemes lateral. Three lower filaments with a globular 
swelling near the middle. irs 
A native of Chittagong, In the Botanic garden at 
Calcutta it flowers in April. 
Trunk short; in one tree twelve years old, it is thirty- 
eight inches in Eeceuienains Bark smooth. Branches nu- 
merous, bifarious, spreading much ; young shoots slightly 
pubescent, grooved, and flexuose. | Leaves bifarious, 
spreading, about a foot long or more. Leaflets from eight 
to twelve pair, toward the apex narrower and sub-lance- 
olate ; the lower pairs ovate and ovate-lanceolar, all are 
smooth and entire, from two to three inches long, Petioles 
round, slightly villous, without glands, Stipules obli- 
quely crescent-shaped, with the extremities lengthen- 
ed into long subulate spurs. Racemes lateral, ont 
naked, two or more year-old branchlets, simple. _Bractes 
three-fold, one-flowered, narrow-lanceolate, the lateral 
pair smaller. Pedicels slender, villous, diverging, about 
two inches long, one-flowered. Flowers large, of a beal- 
tiful pale pink colour. Leaflets of the. calyx equal, 
ovate. Petals lanceolate, nearly equal, eight or ten times 
longer than the calyx. Filaments ten, very unequal ; the 
lower three much longer, each with a globular swell- 
ing near the middle and a double curye below it. Anthers 
on the three long filaments opening on the sides, the rest 
opening by two pores at the base. Germ pedicelled, incuty> 
ed, cylindric, one-celled, containing numerous seeds ab 
tached to the upper suture or concaye side. Style vey 
short. Stigma minute, green. _-Loment cylindric, pend- 
lous, about two feet long, more than eighty-celled, with 
transverse partitions, lined with a dry substance. Seed $0 
litary, Perisperm in small quantity, and particularly yel- 
low. Embryo as in ©. bacillus, Ke. see. ataeie ak 
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