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possible to clear these up with any degree of satisfaction from the imperfect and 
often inaccurate descriptions given of the most important points. 
- 902. (18) C. Wallichiana (DC. :) suffruticose, branched ; branches long and 
nearly simple, diffuse or somewhat erect, old ones nearly glabrous, when 
young pubescent or hirsute: leaflets 20-50 pair (or near the root sometimes 
only 9-10 pair), with a sessile concave gland below the lowest pair, linear- 
. oblong, very unequal sided and approaching to falcate, mucronate, nearly 
glabrous; rachis naked or very inconspicuously margined in the young 
leaves: stipules lanceolate-subulate from an obliquely cordate base: flowers 
supra-axillary, solitary or in pairs; pedicels in fruit 3-4 times longer than - 
the petioles: stamens 10, alternately shorter: legume flat, linear, pointed, 
14-20-seeded, constricted between the seeds, more or less hairy —DC. prod. 
2. p. 505 ; Wall.! L. n. 5320 ; Wight! cat. n. 639.—C. Leschenaultii, Wall.! 
L. n. 5325 (not DC.)—C. myriophylla, Wall.! L. n. 5326. à 
C. Telfairiana, Wall. L. n. 5224, approaches so very closely that it may 
prove to be only a variety ; its habit is no doubt different, but the only spe- 
cimens known are cultivated: we unfortunately did not examine, when we 
had the opportunity, the structure of its flower, but if a very similar species 
which we have from the Mauritius, sent by Mr Telfair to Dr Hooker, be the 
same, it may be distinguished by the three lower and the uppermost anthers 
being considerably longer than the other and intermediate six. 
903. (19) C. angustissima (Lam. :) suffruticose, diffuse, procumbent, often 
much branched ; branches pubescent or a little hairy: leaflets 20-60 pair, 
with a sessile concave gland below the lowest pair, usually minute, linear- 
oblong, unequal sided, mucronate, nearly glabrous or sprinkled with hairs; 
rachis of the young leaves furnished on its upper side with a crenated mar- 
gin, and a short bristle in each crenature: stipules lanceolate-subulate from 
an obliquely cordate base: flowers supra-axillary, 1-2 together ; pedicels m 
fruit about one-third of the length of the leaves: stamens 10, alternately 
shorter, the uppermost sometimes wanting: legumes flat, linear, mucronate, 
15-20-seeded, constricted between the seeds, pubescent.— Lam. enc. meth. 1. 
p. 650; DC. prod. 2. p. 505; Spr. syst. 2. p. 343 ; Wight! cat. n. 641.—C. 
sensitiva, Rowb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 640.—C. amena, Ham. in Wall.! L. 
n. 5321.—C. hin, Grah. ! in Wall.! L. n. 5328 (not n. 5308).—Senna 
f 39 er. fl. Ind. 2. p. 353.—Rumph. Amb. 6. t. 67. f. 1; Pluk. t. 5. 
, If, as we suspect, luxuriant plants are occasionally erect, C. tenella, Roxb. 
in E. I. C. mus. tab. 1422, (Senna tenella of the fl. Ind.), may be added to 
the synonyms ; and we have before us a specimen from Ceylon much more 
robust than any from the Peninsula, which tends to a suspicion that c. 
angustissima may be only a variety of C. Wallichiana ; in which case the 
whole may be united with C. mimusoides of Linneeus! This last is erect 
and slender, about 2 feet high, nearly simple, with the stems pubescent ; 
leaflets very numerous ; pedicels sick longer than the petioles; legumes 
slightly hairy. De Candolle’s plant under the same name, with a stalked 
land between the lower pair of leaflets, is very different ; there is nothing | 
in either the Linnzean specimen or description to allow of such a character. 
904. (20) C. pumila (Lam. :) suffruticose, procumbent: branches à little 
hairy : leaflets 12-30 pair, with an erect slender-stalked peltate gland close 
to the lowest pair, linear-oblong, unequal sided, mucronate, more Or less. 
hairy or pubescent : rachis not margined: stipules lanceolate-subulate : flowers - 
supra-axillary, 1-3 together ; pedicels rather short : stamens 5, nearly equal: — 3 
legumes flat, linear, 6—7-seeded, pubescent or nearly glabrous, constric 
between the seeds—Lam. enc. meth. 1. p. 651; DC. prod. 2. p- 0045 P 
syst. 2. p. 342; Wall.! L. n. 5827; Wight! cat. n. 636, 638, 640.—C. ee . 
trata, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 639.—Senna prostrata, Roxb. fl. Iud. rv 
p. 352.— Pluk. t. 120. f. 1. EY 
