532 BURMA, ITS PEOPLE AXD PRODUCTIOXS. 



° ° Pods Irondhj A-iringed. Flowers larffe, orange-yellow. 



C. ALATA, L. <S'. All over Burma. 



Shrubby herb, almost glabrous. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the racbis almost 

 ■wmged-augular. Bracts yellow, obovate-oblong, about an inch long, deciduous. 

 Pods glabrous. The bruised leaves and simple cerate, in equal parts, are an excellent 

 application for ' ringworm.' The leaves are also suiiposed to possess tonic properties 

 (Waring, Manual of Therapeutics). 



X X Pods more or less teretr fo A-gonous. Seeds transverse, ohlirpie, or rarelg 

 parallel irith the valves. Merhs, fowers yellow. 



+ Seeds transverse or oblique. 

 C. occmENTALis, L. Common all over Burma. Kamorta. 



C. sophora, L. 

 Leaves abruptly 4-pinnate, glabrous, leaflets in 4-12 pairs, acuminate. Calyx 

 glabrous. Petals about \ inch long. Ovary glabrous. 



-j — |- Seeds parallel icith the valves. 



C. lOKA, L. All over Burma. 



Senna foroides, Eoxb. 



Leaves abruptly pinnate, leaflets in 3-2 pairs, blunt. Petals nearly -V inch long. 

 Ovary shortly pubescent. 



** Pods opening elastieally at hoth sutures. Funicle very short. Perfect anthers 

 10, or fewer by abortion, opening by slits. Flowers yellow, small. Herbs (^Lasiorliegma). 



C. PUMILA, Lamk. Prome. 



Senna prostrata, Ptoxb. 



More or less prostrate. Leaflets in 8-1.5 pairs, 2-V-3i lines long. Basal gland 

 of racbis long-stalked. Pedicels 1-2 lines lung. 



C. SIIMU.S0IDES, L. var. n common all over Burma, var. ji 



a shade-loving form in Tenasserim. 



Erect, branched. Leaflets in 15-30 pairs, 1-3 lines long. Basal glands of 

 racbis sessile. Pedicels up to h-^ inch long. 



var. a angustissima, Lamk. ; Telfairiana, Hook. ; sensitiva and tenella, Roxb. 



Leaves almost sessile, the racbis often margiuate. Leaflets only about a line 

 long, very narrow. Pods nearly glabrous. All parts more or less glabrous. 



var. ft C. myriophylla, Wall. ; C. miinosoides, ft myriophylla and nuricoma, Bth. ; 

 Senna dimidiata, Iloxb. Leaves on a short pubescent petiole. Leaflets 2-3 lines long, 

 oblong to linear, the racbis marginate or not. Pods more copiously appressed 

 pubescent, while young usually pilose from yellow soft spreading hairs. 



The timber of C. fistula and C. renigera is strong and hard, but of small scantling. 

 The leaves of C obovata and some other species constitute ' senna ' of the Pharnia- 

 copceia, and the seeds of C. fistula are surrounded by a black sweetish laxative pulp, 

 used in electuaries. As an ornamental tree C fistula somewhat resembles the laburnum 

 when in flower. 



* * Anthers versatile, opening by longitudinal slits. 



Snb-hibe BAUHIXIE.E. 

 Leaves simple, '2-foliolafe or simply pinnate. Calyx gamosepalous, or the sepals free 

 fo the disl:, imbricate or valvate. Ovary-stal/c adnate to the valyx-tube or rarely free. 



* Leaves simple and more or less 2-lobed, or 2-foliolate [Eu-bauhinieee). 



Bauhixia, Linnaus. 



Petals unoiiual. Calyx gamosepalous or valvate. Pods dehiscent. Leaves 

 palmately 5-many-nerved. 



