IGO Mattriah fur a Flora nf the Malayan Teninsula. 



shrub 2-5 feet high usually of annual duration. Leaves equally pinnnte 

 -4-8 in. long; leaflets 3-6 (rarely 2) pairs, opposite, membranous, green, 

 foetid, ovate-acuminate with cnueate base, rather densely pilose on both 

 surfaces, r5-3'5 in. long, 1-1'5 in. wide, lateral nerves about 6 pairs 

 straight ascending, petiolules very short pilose as is the leaf-rachis which 

 has a single large gland 2 in. above its base; stipules subulate mem- 

 branous '35 in. long. Flowers usually in subsessile pairs in axils of 

 leaves, the upper crowded, their common pedurcle even in fruit not 

 exceeding -15 in., pedicels in fruit 5 in. long, erect, rigid, pilose. Calyx 

 .5-partite to base, segments pale, ovate-subacute, pilose externally, '25 in. 

 long. Petals 5, snbequal, spreading, bright-yellow, '45 in. long, 25 in. 

 wide ovate-oblong obtuse. Stamens 7 (the 3 upper replaced by stami- 

 nodes) the 3 lower longer and with larger anthers than the two lateial 

 pairs ; anthers brown. Pod slightly falcate, 6-8 in. long, '25 in. wide, 

 subterete, faintly transversely septate, the valves densely villous, papery, 

 very faintly reticulated and faintly depressed between the seeds, sutures 

 broad. Seeds 90-120, ovate, small, dull-brown, 'J? in. long, '1 in. wide, 

 •07 in. thick. DO. Prodr. II, 497 ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 263. 0. 

 tomentosa Wall. Cat. 5304 not of Linn. 



Singapore ; very common, Anderson 44 ! Hullett 75 ! Kunstler 317 ! 

 DiSTRiB. An American weed now naturalised in many parts of S.-E. 

 Asia. 



8. Cassia occtdentalis Linn. Sp. PI. 377. A diffuse subglabrous 

 undeishrub 2-5 feet high usually of annual duration. Leaves equally 

 pinnate 6-8 in, long ; leaflets 3-5 pairs opposite, membranous, glaucous, 

 foetid, ovate-oblong with rounded ba.se, tapering to an acuminate tip, 

 glabrous above, glabrous or finely pubescent beneath, 1-3 in. long, •5-1*25 

 in. wide ; Literal nerves 6-10 pairs spreading, petiolules very short 

 glabrous as is the leaf-rachis which has a single large globose gland at 

 its base. Flowers in axillary short-pednncled few-fld. corymbs arranged 

 in a terminal panicle, bracts white with pink tinge, thin, ovate-acuminate, 

 caducous, "5 in. long ; pedicels •15-"2 in. long, sparsely puberulous, spread- 

 ing, in fruit reaching '5 in. long, ascending, rigid. Calyx 5-partite to 

 base, segments white faintly tinged with pink, glabrous, membranous, 

 obtuse, "3 in. long. Petals 5 subequal, yellow very faintly veined with 

 orano-e, '5 in. long, "3 in. wide, ovate-obtnse. Stamens 7, (the 3 upper 

 replaced by staminodes) the 3 lower longer and with larger anthers than 

 the two lateral pairs ; anthers brown. Pod slightly falcate, compressed, 

 transversely septate, sutures rigid, valves depressed between the 20-30 

 seeds, 4-5 in. long, '35 in. wide, "2 in. thick. -S'eecZs broadly ovate, small, 

 pale-brown, '2 in. long, '15 in. across, '1 in. thick. DC. Prodr. II, 497 ; 

 lloxh Horfc. Beng. 31; Bot. Reg. t. 83 ; W. & A. Prodr. 290 ; Miq. 



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