126 CiESALPINEiE. 



pair of leaflets ij^ to 2 inches from the branch. Leaflets 

 variable, the terminal pair usually the largest, from 

 I to 5 inches along and from 1/5 to 54 as broad. Flowers 

 over an inch across. Three upper stamens sterile, next 

 four with anthers ^ inch, the next pair with filaments 

 longer than the lowest one and anthers, like the latter, 

 J4 inch curved ; all these opening by pores at the top, 

 and having a line of pubescence down the middle line 

 on each side, which however soon withers. Pod brown, 

 3^ to ^ inch, thick, opening elastically along one 

 edge, segmented inside and indented between the seeds. 

 Seeds horizontal with short stalks, t. 91. 



A native of tropical America, Brazil to Mexico, and now wild, but 

 probably introduced, in similar parts of Asia and Africa. 



Cassia tomentosa Linn. ; F.B.I, ii 263, CIII ^ ; the Yel- 

 low Cassia of Ootacamund. A small tree or shrub, with 

 large panicles of buttercup-yellow flowers, making sheets 

 of colour. Young branches, sepals, ovary and the under 

 side of leaves densely covered with short hairs. Leaf- 

 lets six to eight pairs, oblong obtuse, pubescent on the 

 upper side and dark-green, I to 1/4 by /4 inch, promi- 

 nently one-nerved, with a gland between the two of all 

 or most pairs. Racemes of flowers in the upper axils ; 

 stamens as in C. laevigata. Pod 4 by }4 inch tomentose. 

 t. 92. 



Nilgiris : in Ootacamund very common by road-sides. Pul- 

 neys : at Poombari, Bourne 903. 



A native of tropical America in the valleys of the Andes from Bolivia 

 to Central America. 



Cassia mimosoides Linn. ; F.B.L ii 266, CIII 18 ; 

 Pink or Yellow Ground-Cassia. A low diffuse perennial 

 with slender downy branches. Stipules Ye, inch acute ; 

 leaves I to 2 inches. Leaf-stalk hairy, with one gland on 

 below the lowest pair of leaflets, and produced beyond 

 them in a soft spine ; leaflets thirty to fifty pairs, H by 



