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more numerous leaflets, and the decided inequality of the petals: may these 
differences arise from cultivation ? 
+897. (13) C. fastigiata (Vahl:) branches somewhat angled, glabrous: 
leaflets 8-9 pair, with a stalked gland between each pair, oblong-obtuse, 
slightly emarginate, minutely mucronate, glabrous, glaucous on the under 
. side: peduncles angled, pubescent, approximated in the upper axils: flowers 
crowded towards the extremity of the peduncles; pedicels subtended by a 
lanceolate bractea: sepals densely pubescent.—Vahl, symb. 3. p. 57; DC. 
prod. 2, p. 496; Spr. syst. 2. p. 337. 
We suspect that the glands may not have been so numerous as Vahl de- 
scribes, and that this species is the same with C. suffruticosa, a species which 
was well known to Koenig, from whom Vahl received his specimens of C. 
Sastigiata. 
898. (14) C. auriculata (Linn. :) shrubby, erect: young branches, petioles 
and peduncles pubescent: leaflets 8-12 pair, with a subulate gland between 
each pair, oval, obtuse or retuse, mucronate ; upper side glabrous, under 
slightly pubescent: stipules large, obliquely cordate, acute: racemes axil- 
lary, nearly as long as the leaves, many-flowered, approximated towards the 
ends of the branches ; pedicels compressed: bracteas cordate-ovate, acumi- 
nated: sepals slightly hairy: legumes compressed, straight—Linn.! sp. 
p. 542; DC. prod. 2. p. 496 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 337 ; Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 
638; Wall.! L. n. 5303 ; Wight ! cat. n. 649.— Cassia, n. 151, Linn.! fl. Zeyl. 
— Senna auriculata, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 349.— Pluk. t. 314. f. 4. 
A very common and handsome shrub, the bark of which is much used by 
the natives all over India for tanning leather. 
+ + Annual and herbaceous: petioles or rachis with one or more glands: legumes 
long, linear, tumid or 4-angled, pointed. 
899. (15) C. occidentalis (Linn.:) annual, erect, branched, glabrous: 
leaflets pair, without glands between them, ovate-lanceolate, very acute; 
glabrous on both sides: petiole with a large sessile obtuse gland near its tu- 
mid base: flowers longish pedicelled, upper ones forming a terminal raceme, 
lower ones 3-5 together on a very short axillary peduncle: lowest anther 
small and sterile: legumes long, when immature and dry compressed and sur- 
rounded with a tumid border, when ripe nearly cylindric or slightly com- 
pressed.—Linn.! sp. p. 589; DC. prod. 2. p. 497: Spr. syst. 2. p. 338; 
Wight! cat. n. 658,—C. Sophera, Wall.! L. n. 5317. e, g, k, I, p-—C. fætida, 
Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1419.—Senna occidentalis, Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p- 343. 
This is as much a native of the East as of the West Indies: it is found I 
almost every soil, but is particularly frequent in the neighbourhood of towns 
and villages among rubbish. The leaves when bruised exhale a very heavy 
disagreeable odour. In general habit, and in the structure of the leaves, the 
gites and the stamens, this is so nearly allied to C. Sophera, that = 
raham and Dr Wallich have united the two : the best mark lies in the posi- 
tion of the seeds. When the legumes are compressed, in which state they 
usually, if not always, appear in herbaria, this species has a narrow eleva! 
rim surrounding them, which is not found in C. Sophera. 
900. (16) C. Tora (Linn.:) annual, with spreading branches: leaflets 3 
(or rarely 2) pair, with a cylindric gland between the 1-2 lower pair, bu 
without any between the uppermost, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, glabrous, or 
pubescent on the under side : stipules subulate, nearly half the length of the 
petiole, deciduous : flowers long-pedicelled, upper ones forming a $ rt ter- 
minal raceme, lower ones 1-2 together on a short axillary peduncle : upper 
petal obcordate: seven lower anthers about equal and fertile: legumes eA 
long, sharp pointed, 4-sided, many-seeded ; each suture 2-grooved.— 1 
L. n. 5816; Wight! cat. n. 657-—C. obtusifolia, Burm. Ind. p. 95 hec 
syn.)— C. foetida, Sal. prod. p. 326.—C. Gallinaria, Collad. monogr. cass. P» ** 
