336 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Cassia. 



3. C. nodosa. Buck. 



Leaves bifarious ; leaflets ten-paired, oblong. Stipules 

 obliquely crescent-shaped, with a bristle at each angle. 

 Racemes lateral. Three lower filaments with a globular 

 swelling near the middle. 



A native of Chittagong. In the Botanic garden at 

 Calcutta it flowers in April. 



Trunk short; in one tree twelve years old, it is thirty- 

 eight inches in circumference. jBarAr smooth, Branchesnu- 

 merous, bifarious, spreading much ; young shoots slightly 

 pubescent, grooved, and flexuose. Leaves bifarious, 

 spreading, about a foot long or more. Leaflets from eight 

 to twelve pair, toward the apex narrower and sub-lance- 

 olate ; the lower pairs ovate and ovate-lanceolar, all are 

 smooth and entire, from two to three inches long. Petioles 

 round, slightly villous, without glands. Stipules obli- 

 quely crescent-shaped, with the extremities lengthen- 

 ed into long subulate spurs. Racemes lateral, on the 

 naked, two or more year-old branchlets, simple. Bractes 

 three-fold, one-flowered, narrow-lanceolate, the lateral 

 pair smaller. Pedicels slender, villous, diverging, about 

 two inches long, one-flowered. Flowers large, of a beau- 

 tiful pale pink colour. Leaflets of the calyx equal, 

 ovate. Petals lanceolate, nearly equal, eight or ten times 

 longer than the calyx. Filaments ten, very unequal ; the 

 lower three much longer, each with a globular swell- 

 ing near the middle and a double curve below it. Anthers 

 on the three long lilaments opening on the sides, the rest 

 opening by two pores at the base.C?erm pedicelled, incurv- 

 ed, cylindric, one-celled, containing numerous seeds at- 

 tached to the upper suture or concave side. Style very 

 short. Stigma minute, green. Loment cylindric, pendu- 

 lous, about two feet long, more than eighty-celled, with 

 transverse partitions, lined with a dry substance. Seed so- 

 litary. Perisperm in small quantity, and particularly yel- 

 low. Embryo as in C bacillus, &,c, see Gcert. sem. 2. p, 

 313. 



