342 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Senna, 
5. S. aurata. R. 
Shrubby. Leaflets three pair, ovate-oblong, sled 
smooth, having a conic gland between each pair. Stipules 
and bractes ensiform. Racemes corymbose. Legumes cy- 
lindric, obtuse, pendulous. 
A stout, lucid, very handsome shrub, with many large, 
bright gold coloured flowers ; a native of the countries 
and islands to the eastward of the Bay of Bengal. In the 
Botanic garden at Calcutta it blossoms freely wig 
the rains and the seed ripens in the cool season. 
6. S. bicapsularis. R. 
Shrubby, with long, weak, slender, smooth, distivairidut 
branches. Leaflets four-pair, obovate ; a globular yellow 
gland between the lower pair. Stipules subulate. Ra- 
cemes axillary, as long as the leaves. Two of the anthers 
much larger. Legume torulose, many-seeded. 
Cassia bicapsularis. Willd. 2. 516. 
Probably not a native of India ; how it came into tho! 
Botanic garden at Calcutta is uncertain, but there it is” 
now common, and blossoms about the close of the nae 
in September and October. . 
7. S. purpurea, R. a FOR Ae 
Annual, erect, smooth, Leaflets from four to: six pait, 
lanceolar, on hemispheric glands at the base of the 
petiole, the lower one and three superior stamens sterile. 2 
Legumes turgid, many-seeded. waite 
Beng. Kala-Kalkashinda. 
Teling. Conda kashinda. ; 
A large, erect, ramous, annual species, a native of the: eae 
mountainous parts of the Coast. Ihave raised it from 
seeds in my garden, and from these plants this descrip- — 
tion is taken. Flowering time the cold season, “ a : 
plant is about three feet high, = 0 
Siem erect, as thick as the little sive: anhiag snooty 
