340 DECANDRIA MpNOGYNiA. Senna. 



A minute, erect, flexuose, hairy plant, with small yel- 

 low flowers, in small subterminal racemes. A native of 

 Bengal ; it flowers about the close of the rains. 



2. S. absus. R. 



Biennial, clammy. Leaflets two pair, obovate. Flow- 

 ers pentandrous. Stamens five, equal, iegfumes straight, 

 hairy, six-seeded. 



Cassia absus. Willd. 2. 514. 



A small bi- or triennial, ramous species, every part of 

 which, the leaves excepted, is covered with glutinous 

 hairs. 



Leaves alteraate, bifarious, twice-paired. Leaflets obli- 

 quely-oval,obtuse, somewhat hairy on the under side; about 

 an inch long. Petioles the length of the leaflets. Glands 

 an awled one between each pair of leaflets. Stipules acute. 

 Racemes either opposite to the insertion of the leaves 

 or nearly so, or terminal, few flowered. Flowers yellow, 

 small. Pedicels bracted at the middle. Calyx glandular. 

 Stamens five, equal, no rudiments of more ; the anthers 

 opening by a slit on each side of the pointed apex and not 

 by round lobes in the apex. Legumes hairy, six- seeded. 

 Seeds black. 



3. S. Tora. R. 



Annual. Branches spreading. Leaflets three-paired, 

 obovate-cuneate, a subulate gland between each of the 

 lower two pairs, ^^ipw/es subulate. F/owers in axillary 

 pairs. jLet/wmes long, recurved, subcylindric, Seeds nu- 

 merous. 



Cassia tora. Willd. 2. 515. 



Sans. Pn(sni pwrai. 



Seng. Chak^^nda. 



Teling. Tantim. 



A little more robust than the last, and a native of the 

 same country. In flower and seed great part of the year. 



