Cassia. decandria monogynia. 333 



tioles but stipulate at the base. Flowers on axillary ra- 

 cemes. Calyx of five equal leaflets. Corol of five nearly 

 equal petals. Stamina very unequal; the three lower fi- 

 laments much longer than the rest, with a double curve 

 below the middle, and in two of them, a large swelling 

 at the middle. Loment cortical, cylindric, pendulous, 

 man^y-celled, with one seed in each. Embryo straight, 

 furnished with a hard perisperm, large, roundish Cotyle- 

 dons, and a centrifugal radicle. 



1. C. fistula. Willd. 2. p. 518. 



Leaflets about five pair, ovate oblong. Racemes pendu- 

 lous. Loment cylindric, pendulous ; partitions lined with 

 soft sweet pulp. 



Sans. SoovMrnwlca. 



Beng. Soondah'. 



Hind. Umultuss. 



Teling. Rela, 



Conna. Rlieed. Mai 1. t. 22. 



A native of various parts of the East Indies, as well, I 

 presume, as of the west ; as young trees reared from 

 West India seed, now ten years old, do not in any 

 respect difier from these of the East, both are now, April, 

 in full flower, and the seeds are ripe about nine, or ten 

 months afterwards. 



Trunk short. BarArsmooth,ofa light ash-colour. Branch- 

 €s numerous, spreading in every direction; general height 

 of full grown trees from twenty to thirty feet. Leaves al- 

 ternate, bifarious, pinnate, from twelve to eighteen inches 

 long, deciduous in the cool season, and appearing with 

 the blossoms in April. Leaflets from four to eight pair, five 

 the most common, opposite or nearly so, short petioletted, 

 the inferior ones broad-ovate, the superior ones oblong, 

 entire, generally obtuse or emarginate, polished on both 

 sides, from two to six inches long and from one and a half 

 to three broad. Petioles round, without glands. Petiolets 



