1G2 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



with cicatrices of fallen leaves and marked by tLe persistent rather 

 rigid stipules. Leaves equally pinnate 1-2 feet long ; leaflets 8-14 

 pairs opposite, rigidly chartaceous, green, linear-oblong to oblongs 

 obtuse or emarginate, apiculate, base obliquely rounded or truncate, 

 glabrous on both surfaces or sometimes obscurely downy beneath, 

 gradually increasing in size from base upwards, 2-6 in. long, 1-25 in. 

 wide, lateial nerves 10-15 paiis ascending curved towards extremities, 

 distinct above and very prominent beneath; secondary venation beneath 

 distinct ; petiolules very short glabrous as is the leaf-i-achis, w hich is 

 deeply channelled above with firm yellow borders and with transverse 

 ridges occasionally slightly apiculate in the middle between each pair 

 of leaflets, but with no true gland; stipules '25 in. long, auriculate, 

 rif^id, pointed, persistent. Flowers in pednncled subspicate racemes, 

 6-18 in, long, at first enveloped in large membranous strobilate yellow 

 caducous bracts '75 iu. long, '6 in. wide, ovate, subacate or obtuse ; 

 pedicels "15 in. (in fruit '25 in.) long, very finely puberuious as is the 

 thick rachis. Calyoc 6-partite to base, segments spathulate obtuse, 1 in. 

 long, '6 ia. wide, yellow, membranous, glabrous. Petals 5 subequal, bright 

 yellow veined with orange, ovate-orbicular shortly clawed, 1*25 in. long, 

 •75 in. wide. Stamens 7 (the 3 upper reduced to staminodes) the 3 

 lowest with long filaments and two of these with very large anthers ; 

 the two lateral pairs with short filaments and small anthers. Pod 

 straight rigid divaricately spreading glabrous dehiscent, 6 in. long '8 

 iu. wide, sutures narrow, valves with a crenulated chartaceous wing 

 •35 in. wide running from end to end. Seeds 50-60 flattened, triangu- 

 lar the sides straight with acute point at hilum, the base somewhat 

 lounded, '25 in. long, '2 in. wide, "1 in. thick, testa smooth shining 

 brown. DC. Prodr. il, 492; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; Wall. Cat. 5301 ; 

 W. & A. Prodr. 287 ; Wight, Ic. t. 253 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 93 ; 

 Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 264. C. bracteata Linn. f. Suppl. 232 ; DC. 

 Prodr. 11, 492. C. herpetica Jacq. Obs. II, 24, t. 45, f. 2. benna alata 

 Hoxb Flor. Ind. II, 349. 



Andamans ; common, King I Prain ! Perak ; Scortechini ! Malacca ; 

 Grifith ! Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. 



Jl. Cassia timoriensis DC. Prodr. II, 499. A shrub or small 

 tree 6-30 feet high, with virgate pubescent branches. Leaves equally 

 pinnate, 1-1'5 feet long ; leaflets 16-24 pairs, opposite, membranous, pale- 

 green, glabrescent to densely pubescent above, sparsely pubescent to 

 softly densely tomentose beneath, lanceolate-oblong with a fine point at 

 the rounded apex and with obliquely rounded base, 1-1-75 in. long, 

 •35-65 in. wide, lateral nerves 8-10 pairs inconspicuous, petiolules '07 

 in. long, pubescent as is the rachis which is cliannelled above and trans- 



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