340 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIAy Senna, 
A minute, erect, flexuose, hairy plant, with small yel- 
low flowers; in small subterminal racemes. . A native of 
Bengal ; it flowers about the close of the rains. 
2. S. absus. R. af 
Biennial, clammy. Leaflets two pair, eure Flow- 
ers pentandrous. Stamens five, equal. Legumes straight, 
hairy, six-seeded. ; ‘vif 
Cassia absus. Willd. 2.514. 
~ A small bi- or triennial, ramous species, every ee 
which, the leaves excepted, is covered with aati: 
hairs. 
Leaves alternate, bifarious, twice-pedands sitassialle 
quely-oval,obtuse, somewhat hairy on the under side; about 
aninch long. Petiolesthe length of the leaflets. _ Glands 
an awled one between each pair of leaflets. Stipules acute. 
_Racemes either opposite to the insertion of the leaves 
or nearly so, or terminal, few flowered. Flowers yellow, 
small. Pedicels bracted at the middle. Calyx glandular. 
Stamens five, equal, no rudiments of more ;_ the anthers 
opening by a slit on each side of the pointed apex and not 
by round lobes in the apex. Legumes hairy, six-seeded- 
Seeds black. : Deeb 
3. S. Tora. R. br 
Annual. Branches spreading. Leaflets pe He 
obovate-cuneate, a subulate gland between each of the 
lower two pairs. Stipules subulate. Flowers in axillary 
pairs. Legumes long, recurved, subcylindric. eae 
merous, sO 
Cassia tora. Willd, 2. 515. 
Sans. ort ie 
Teling. Tantim. : 4 
A little more robust than the last, and a native oft the 
same country. le entennentien pontae 
