Plants of the Punjab. | 105 
SHRUBS WITH ALTERNATE STIPULATE COMPOUND LEAVES. 
Cassia occidentalis, 
Coffee Senna, 
Kasunda. 
LEGUMINOSA. 
eB ola: 262: 
The Plains. 
Gurgaon. 
Baluchistan 
(Hughes-Buller). 
Cassia Sophera, 
Kasunda. 
LEGUMINOS. 
BEB. £1. 262. 
The Plains. 
Ceesaipinia 
pulcherrima, 
Dichrosiachys 
cinerea, 
Vertuli. 
LBEGUMINOS!. 
BPoB.-1 11.288: 
Delhi (Duthie). 
Pop-BEARING PLANTS. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
LEAFLETS MANY. 
medium size, often annual, nearly smooth, spread- 
ing; leaves 6 in. long, with a bluish-waxy gloss, stalk 
with a single gland at the base, leaflets 6-10, 1-3 in. 
long, opposite, shortiy-stalked, ovate-oblong, or lan- 
ceolate, long-pointed, offensive when crushed; flowers 
2 in., yellow, veined with orange, in axillary shortly- 
stalked clusters, forming branching terminal racemes, 
bracts 4 in. long, ovate, long-pointed, white tinged 
with pink, soon falling off, calyx 5-fid to the base, 
lobes blunt, petals 5, broad, nearly equal, stamens 10, 
3 upper without anthers, 2 lateral pairs with small anthers, 
3 lower longer and with larger anthers, anthers brown, 
style incurved ; pod 4-5 by 4 in., curved, cylindrical with 
slight contractions, flattened, seeds 15-30, pale- brown. 
A common weed originally introduced from America. 
The seeds are used by negroes as a substitute for coffee. 
like the last species, but larger, with larger leaves 
and more leaflets, petals scarcely veined, pods not flat- 
tened, nor cylindrical, with slight contractions, seeds dark 
brown. 
see Trees, Alternate, Stipulate, Compound. 
FLOWERS IN SPIKES OR SMALL ROUND HEADS. 
large, branches rigid, thorny, branchlets many, vel- 
vety, terminating in spines ; leaves bipinnate, 1-2 in. long, 
pinne 16-20, stalked glands at the base of each pair, leaf- 
lets 24-80, minute, strap-shaped, sessile, leathery, 4*$ 
in. long ; lowers minute, yellow, on spikes, shortly-stalked, 
axillary, flowers at the base of the spike with white, red 
or purple staminodes, } in. lung ; pod 2-3 by 4-3 in., 6-10- 
seeded, dry, smooth. 
