Cassia. LEGUMINOS&. 287 
889. (5) C. Sophera (Linn.:) annual, erect, branched, glabrous: leaflets 
6-12 pair, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, with a single clavate obtuse 
gland near the base of the petiole: racemes terminal, or axillary and few- 
flowered : upper petal retuse ; lowest anther small and sterile: legumes long, 
linear, turgid, when immature and dried compressed, glabrous, many-seed- 
ed; sutures keeled: seeds horizontal, with cellular partitions between them. 
— Linn. sp. p. 542; DC. prod. 2. p. 492; Spr. syst. 2. p. 335 ; Wall.! L. n. 
5317. a-d, h, i, n, 0 ; Wight! cat. n. 644, 659.—C. esculenta, Roxb. in E. I. C. 
mus. tab. 96.—C. purpurea, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 637 ; DC. l. c. p. 497 ; 
Spr. suppl. p.167.—C. torosa, Cav.; DC. l. c. p. 491 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 335.—C. 
torulosa, Poir.—C. Indica, Poir.—C. Coromandeliana, Jacq. fr. 67. t. 100 ; 
DC. l. c. p. 492; Spr. l. c.—C. sopheroides, Collad.; DC. I. c. p. 506.— Cassia 
n. 150, Linn.! in herb. Herm. (without fruit) ; fl. Zeyl.—Senna Sophora, Roxb. 
fl. Ind. 2. p. 941.—8. purpurea, Roxb. l. c. p. 342.—S. esculenta, Roxb. l. €. p. 
346.— Burm. Zeyl. t. 98; Rheed. Mal. 2. t. 52 ; Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 97. f. 1. 
The legumes, when unripe and dried, appear quite flat, but when ripe and 
fresh are turgid and almost cylindrical: from not attending to which, this 
species has been split into.a great many. In its general appearance it much 
resembles C. occidentalis, but is readily distinguished by the position of the 
seeds: in C. Sophera the sutures are shortly keeled, so that when dried and 
compressed they slope towards the extreme edge; in C. occidentalis, from 
their being tumid, the legume in the same circumstances appears bordered 
with a thickened narrow rim. The Linnean specimen of C. Sophera, which 
appears to have been received long after the species was established (in the 
fl. Zeyl. and Sp. pl.) from Hermann's herbarium, differs considerably from the 
figures quoted, and also from our own specimens: it is not marked from 
whence it was received. 
$3. Herpetica, DC.—Sepals obtuse.  Anthers 2-pored. Legumes membrana- 
ceous, dehiscent, many-celled with transverse dissepiments ; cells 1-seeded, 
somewhat pulpy ; valves furnished with a longitudinal broad foliaceous 
wing along their middle. Seeds numerous, horizontal, compressed.—Shrub- 
by or herbaceous. Flowers racemose, with a large concave deciduous brac- 
tea at the base of each pedicel. 
*890. (6) C. alata (Linn. :) shrubby ; branches spreading, irregularly an- 
gled, glabrous: leaflets 8-14 pair, obovate-oblong, very obtuse, mucronate, 
glabrous or nearly so on both sides, the lowest pair close to the branch and 
ata distance from the next pair: petiole triangular, and the rachis without 
glands : stipules lanceolate, pointed, rigid, persistent: racemes terminal ; le- 
gumes long, enlarged on each side with a broad crenulated wing.—Linn. ! 
8p. p. 541; DC. prod. 2. p. 492 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 336 ; Roab. in E. I. C. ge 
tab. 43; Wall.! L.n. 5301; Wight! cat. n. 648.—C. bracteata, Linn. f.! 
suppl. p. 232; DC. l. c. ; Spr. l. c.—C. herpetica, Jacq. obs. 2. t. 45. f. 2.— 
Senna alata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 349.—Rumph. Amb. 7. t. 18. 
We have examined the specimens of Linnzus, both father and son: that 
of the father consisted of a legume only, and of some leaves which he thought 
a different species: that of the son, of a raceme and leaf; and this not being 
sufficient to enable him to recognise it as the same with his father's, he 
named it C. bractedta, with reference to the large bracteas. The pubescence 
on the under side of the leaflets appears of little consequence; m, the Indian 
state of it, however, they are usually quite glabrous. It is certainly not in- 
nous. c 
§ 4. Senna, DC.—Sepals obtuse. Anthers 2-pored. Legumes membranaceous, 
broad, flat-compressed, with thin edges, scarcely dehiscent, several-celled 
