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XLVII. LEGUMINOS.E. 



[Cassia. 



Seeds flat. Species 340, whole 



(I) 



(3) 

 (4) 



(5) 

 (6) 

 (7) 

 (8) 



nodosa 

 glauca 



timoriensis 

 siamea 



Tora 



obtusifolia 

 occidentalis 

 hirsuta 



(B) C^SALPINIE^ (Genera 42-56). 



42. CASSIA, Linn. 



Shrubs, trees or herbs. Leaves simple, even pinnate. Flowers 

 usually large showy yellow or pink in axillary racemes and terminal 

 panicles. Calyx-tube very short ; sepals imbricate. Petals 5, 

 imbricate. Stamens 10, rarely all perfect, 3 to 5 reduced to stamin- 

 odes or absent ; anthers usually basifixed dehiscing by terminal 

 pores. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled ; style incurved. 

 Pod terete or flat, usually septate, 

 tropical world. 



Stamens 10, fertile. 



Pod terete ; flowers pink ; tree 

 Pods flat ; flowers yellow ; shrub . 

 Stamens 7, fertile ; pods dehiscent. 



Trees ; flowers in large panicles ; yellow. 



Stipules large ; pod thin-valved ; leaflets 



pubescent ..... 

 Stipules small ; pod thick, stiff . 

 Coarse weedy shrubs. 

 Glabrous ; pod 4-angled 

 ,, pod sub-terete . 



,, pod flattened 



Hairy ; flowers in axillary pairs, yellow 

 Tall shrub ; flowers with erect racemes with 



orange bracts 

 Slender under-shrubs with very small leaflets. 

 Leaflets linear; diffuse herb; pod 2 in. long; 



seeds 20 to 25 

 Leaflets oblong ; erect; pod i to i-5 in. long; 

 seeds 8 to 16 



(i) C. nodosa Ham. in Roxb. Hort. 

 fil. F.B.I. 261; Prain, I.e. 155. 



A tree 40 to 80 ft. tall. Stem 10 to 15 in. through. Leaves 

 9 to 10 in. long; leaflets chartaceous, 6 to 12 pairs, oblong, shortly 

 acuminate, base rounded 2 to 2*5 in. long, i to i'25 in. wide, glabrous 

 above, pubescent beneath. Flowers in corymbs, 2 to 3 in. long 

 on the old nodes of the branches below the leaves. Sepals green, 

 ovate obtuse, hairy. Corolla rose pink, "5 in. across ; petals ovate, 

 clawed. Pod terete, 1-5 to 2 ft. long, '5 in. through, black with 

 thin dissepiments between the 60 to 90 flat seeds. Hab. River- 

 banks, forests, not rare. Pahang River, common. Malacca, Brisu ; 

 Sadanen ; Selandor (Derry). Negri Sembilan, Tampin Hill. 

 Perak, Chanderiang (Kunstler) ; Temengoh ; Goping. Ulu Kerling 

 (Kunstler). Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). Distrib. Burma, China, 

 Sumatra, Borneo. Native names : Turukop Bumi ; Sibusuk ; 

 Busuk-Busuk. 



(2) C. glauca Lam. Encyc. Meth. i. 647 ; Baker, I.e. ii. 265 ; 

 Prain, I.e. 157. 



Shrub or treelet, 15 to 20 ft, tall, nearly glabrous, Leaves 



(9) C. alata 



(10) C. mimosoides 



Beng 



(") 

 31; 



C. Leschenaultiana 



Baker, in Hook. 



