338 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. CasSia. 



to the upper suture. Lament cylindric, from eighteen to 

 twenty-four inches long and about three quarters of an 

 inch in diameter, covered with very dark brown, rather 

 smooth, torose bark, &c. as in cassia fistula, which it re- 

 sembles so exactly that the soft sweet pulp of fistula is 

 the only distinguishing mark. In this species the cells 

 between the seventy or eighty partitions are tilled with 

 a spongy substance in which is a roomy cell for each 

 seed. Seed solitary, obovate, a little compressed, the size 

 of a pea, smooth, of a shining brown cof'ir. Integument 

 simple, when fresh rather soft and tough. Perisperm 

 of a tough, soft, horny texture, and brownish colour. 

 £'ni6r7/o straight, yellowish. Cotyledons two, oval, cor- 

 date, three-nerved- P/»/»j?//a two lobed, one large, and 

 pinnatifid, the other a minute point. Radicle oval, lodged 

 immediately within the umbilicus. 



5. C. marginata. R. 



Leaflets fifteen pair, oblong, margined. Stipules semisa- 

 gittate. Racemes axillary. 



A native of Ceylon introduced into the Botanic gar- 

 den at Calcutta by General Macdowall in 1802, where 

 it blossoms during the rains, and ripens its seed in March 

 and April. The tree is at all times uncommonly beauti- 

 ful and particularly so when in flower. 



Trunk tolerably straight, in trees six years old about 

 two feet in circumference, and covered with deeply crack- 

 ed, dull, light brow n-coloured bark. Branches spreading 

 much, secondary branches, and branchlets bifarious and 

 horizontal. Bark of the larger branches greenish, ash-co- 

 lour, spotted with brownish spongy excrescences ; tender 

 shoots flexuose, furrowed and Aillous. Leaves alternate, 

 bifarious, drooping a little, pinnate, from six to ten inches 

 long. Leaflets from ten to twenty pairs, linear- oblong, 

 often emarginate, a little villous underneath, having the 

 margins coloured,and somewhat thickened, about one inch 



