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C^SALPINE^. 125 



yellow and showy ; sepals five, on the margin of a short 

 and scarcely hollowed calyx-tube ; stamens ten, but 

 often only seven of the anthers fertile, some at least of 

 these opening by pores or short slits. 



A large genus of 300 to 360 species, inhabitants of all 

 tropical countries, and divisible into four well-marked sub- 

 g<^nera, according to the number and dehiscence of the fertile 

 anthers, the nature of the pod and the lie of the seeds in it, the 

 general habit and the arrangement of the flowers. 



Monographed by G. Bentham in Trans : Linn ; Soc : Vol. xxvii. 

 (1871). 



Leaflets thirty to forty pairs : a small spreading under- 



shrub , . C. mimosoides. 



[ Leaflets three to ten pairs : shrubs or trees . . . . b. 

 r Glands on the leaf-stalk between all or most of the 



b^ leaflets . c. 



[ One gland only at the base of the leaf-stalk. C. occidentalis. 



f Leaflets glabrous C. laevigata. 



^ \ Leaflets tomentose underneath . . . . C. tomentosa. 



Cassia occidentalis Linn. ; F.B.I, ii 262, CIII 5 ; a 

 low undershrub with foliage and inflorescence of C. laevi- 

 gata except for the solitary gland on the leaf-stalk near 

 its base, and pod when ripe flat, 4 inches by {4 inch with 

 prominent sutures thicker than the rest of the pod. 

 Seeds flattened at right angles to the pod and parallel 

 to the division walls, except sometimes in the upper part 

 of the pod they are parallel to the sides. 



A native probably of tropical America and introduced elsewhere. Now 

 abundant in waste and cultivated places in tropical Asia and Africa. 



Cassia laBvigata WUld\QWL 7. A handsome shrub 

 with golden yellow flowers in terminal corymbs of axil- 

 lary racemes, distinguished by the acute or acuminate 

 dark green glabrous leaflets, with a cylindrical pointed 

 gland between the two of every or all but the terminal 

 pair. Branches round, smooth. Stipules J4 inch but 

 often falling early. Leaves from 4 to 8 inches, the lowest 



