Cassia.] XL. LEGUMIXOSiE. * 285 



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tions or thin pulp. Shrubs. Mowers in very short corymbose racemes or 

 umbels pedunculate in the axils, rarely reduced to 2 flowers. 



9. C. suffruticosa^ Keen. ; Foff. Syn. Cass, 30. A tall weak shrub, 

 quite glabrous or the young branches inflorescence and under side of the leaves 

 pubescent. Leaflets 6 to 10 pairs, obovate or broadly oblong, obtuse, mostly 

 1 to 1| in. long; glands oblong or slender, usually stipitate, between those 

 of the 1, 2 or 3 lowest pairs. Stipules linear or subulate. Flowers ip short 

 umbel-like racemes in the upper axils. Bracts lanceolate^ acuminate, rather 

 .persistent. Sepals veiy obtuse, the inner ones 3 to 4 lines long. Petals 

 hroad, ^ in. long or more,. 2 or 3 lower ones rather larger than the others. 

 Anthers all on short filaments, 2 or 3 rather larger than the others. Pod 

 3 to 4 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad.— W, and Arn. Prod. 289 ; C. acclims, F. 

 Muell. Fragm. iv. 13, 



N. Australia. Islands of the N. Coast, R Brown. 



Queensland. Percy islands, J. CunnwgJiam ; Rockhamptoii, DaUachfj ; Edgecombe 

 Bay and Port Deuisou, Ydzalan ; Ipswich, Nernd, 



N, S. Wales, Hastings river, Beckler. 



Although more variable in aspect than the Indian specimens, some of the Australian spe- 

 cimens, especially some of Brown's, cannot be distinguished from Asiatic ones. The species 

 IS said to be in cultivation only in E. India, but indigenous in the Archipelago. It is very 

 closely allied to, and perhaps a variety of C. glauca- 



10. C. retusa, Soland. ; Fog. in linncea, xv. 73. Shrubby and softly 

 pubescent, especially the young parts. Leaflets 4 to 6 pairs, obovate to ob- 

 long-cuneate, veiy obtuse or emarginate, \ to above 1 in. long ; glands slender 

 or stipitate between those of the 1, 2 or 3 lowest pairs. Stipules linear, 

 acuminate, deciduous. Elowers crowded in short almost umbellate racemes, 

 on axillary peduncles shorter than the leaves. Bracts narrow, acuminate. 

 Sepals broad, very obtuse. Petals not twice as long. Anthe]:s all nearly 

 e^ual. Pod stipitate, 2 to 4 in. long, 4 to 5 lines broad.. 



Queensland. Bustard Bay, Bavt 



Aiursty SouDd, K Brom. The species is 



on the other to some forma of €. anstralis. 



uffruticosa^ 



„, ^._, ^... Mag. t. 2676. A tall erect slirub, either 



quite glabrous or loosely pubescent, the vouiig branches more or lessangular. 

 i^eaflets usually 8 to 10 pairs. In some specimens reduced to 6 or 7, m others 

 increased to 11 or 12 mirs, oblong lanceolate or almost linear, obtuse or 

 ^c'^te, \ to I or rarely 1 in. long, the margins usually recurved and sometimes 

 i-evolute; glands slender or stipitate between the leaflets of most or only of 

 the lower pairs, or rarely almost none. Stipules subulate, deciduous. ± lowers 



2 to 6 in a loose umbel on peduncles usually shorter than the leaves, but 

 fometimes longer. Bracts small, broad, obtuse. Sepals veiy obtuse, ^2 to 3 

 ^f long. Petals broad, | in. long or rather more. Anthers 2 or 3 olten 

 ^ tier larger than the others. Pod shortly stipitate, glabrous 3 to 4 m. long, 



3 to 4 Unes broad, straight or curved into a half-circle. Seeds shmmg black. 

 --Eot. Reg. 1. 1322 ; C. umbellata, Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 2Q^ ■, C ■ SchuUem 

 CoUa, Hort. Ripul. App. ii. 344, and iii. t. 10; C. Barrevfeldn (afterwards 

 corrected to C. Fiddii), CoW^, Hort. RIpul. App. iv. 23, 1. 11 ; ^. corondloides, 

 A. tunn.; Benth. in Mitch. Trop. Austr. 384. , 



. 9'^eensland. Broad Sotm^, R. Brown, A. Cunningham ; Bar.k.kin ny,,..^n^Jc^\ 

 ^^^. F. Mueller; Rockhamptou, Jte^/ ; Comet and Coudauune nvers, Letchhardt. 



