286 LEGUMINOS A. Cassia. 
about 5- (4-8-) pair, broadly ovate, usually obtuse or retuse, sometimes slight- 
ly acuminated, glabrous: petioles without glands: stipules minute: racemes 
terminal, long, lax, drooping ; flowers long-pedicelled : legumes cylindrie, 
pendulous, glabrous, smooth.—Linn. ! sp. p. 540; DC. prod. 2. p. 490; Spr. 
syst. 2. p. 334; Lam. ill. t. 332; Gertn. fr. 2. t. 147; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 
333; Wall! L. n. 5302; Wight! cat. n. 643.—C. rhombifolia, Roxb. ? l c. 
p. 934. 
A common and very widely distributed plant in India. 
886. (2) C. Rowburghii (DC. :) arboreous with deeply cracked bark: 
branches spreading much ; young shoots with the petioles and peduncles pu- 
bescent: leaflets 10-20 pair, oblong, unequal-sided, obtuse or somewhat 
emarginate and mucronate at the apex, pubescent beneath ; margins coloured 
and slightly thickened: petioles without glands: stipules semisagittate: ra- 
cemes axillary, solitary, much shorter than the leaves : legumes cylindric, very 
long, pendulous, glabrous, torose.—2 C. prod. 2. p. 489; Wall.! L. n. 5308; 
Wight! cat. n. 642.—C. marginata, Roxb. (not Willd.) fl. Ind. 2. p. 338.—— 
Gingie hills. ~ 
Of rare occurrence in the wild state, but, from its great beauty, now com- 
mon in gardens in the Peninsula. It is nearly allied to C. Javanica, with 
which it appears to have been frequently confounded, but is, we believe; 
quite distinct. 
§ 2. Chameefistula, DC.—Sepals very obtuse. Anthers with 2 pores. Legumes 
terete or compressed, scarcely dehiscent, wingless, somewhat membrana- 
ceous, many-celled with transverse partitions ; cells 1-seeded, with a little 
or no pulp. Seeds elliptical, somewhat compressed, horizontal — Trees or 
shrubs. Flowers racemose or panicled. 
887. (3) C. tomentosa (Linn.:) a large shrub, with terete tomentose diffuse 
branches: leaflets 6-8 pair, usually with a gland between each pair, linear- 
oblong, mucronate, rounded and a little unequal at the base ; upper side pu- 
bescent ; under tomentose: racemes in the upper axils as long as or ay in 
than the leaves, several-flowered, forming a leafy corymbiform panicle: le- 
gumes long, linear, compressed, mucronate, tomentose : seeds somewhat re- 
niform, horizontal.— Linn. ! suppl. p. 231; DC. prod. 2. p. 496 ; Spr. syst. " 
p. 338 ; Wight! cat. n. 647 —OC. Wightiana, Graham ! in Wall.! L.n. 5329.— 
C. multiglandulosa, Jacq. ic. rar. 1. t. 72. Neelgherries. : 
C. tomentosa of Wallich’s List is a very different plant.—Our specimens 
agree so very precisely with that of the Linnæan herbarium, from America, 
as well as with the descriptions in the suppl. Plant., Lamarck, Kunth, &c. 
that we have no doubt about the identity of the species. The Indian plant, 
however, appears to be also in a truly wild state; and, as a proof of this, 1t 
may be mentioned that it bears a native name, Malay-awvarday, in the bs 
mul language.—Kunth is right, but De Candolle wrong, as to the section to 
which it belongs. 
*888. (4) C. bicapsularis (Linn. :) shrubby, with long weak slender terete 
smooth flexuose and somewhat scandent branches: leaflets 3-4 pair, glabrous, 
unequal at the base, obovate, obtuse, lowest pair roundish with an erect-s : 
globose gland between them: stipules small, subulate, reflexed, emit : 
racemes axillary, as long as the leaves: legume large, torulose, divided e 
gitudinally by a long partition into two large cells, that are subdivided in 
smaller ones by transverse partitions between each seed: seeds prd 
small.— Linn. sp. p. 538 ; DC. prod. 2. p. 494 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 340 ; were : 
n. 8513; Wight ! cat. n. 646.—C. sennoides, Jacq. ic. rar. 1. t. 170; DC.l. 0-5 
Spr. l. c.—Senna bicapsularis, Rowb.! fl. Ind. 2. p. 342. i ative 
Frain Roxburgh and Dr Wallich in considering this a doubtful n 
of India. 
