Wagatea.] L. LEGUMINOS^E. (J. G. Baker.) 261 



1. W. spicata, Dalz. in Kew Journ. iii. 90; Wight Ic. t. 1995 ; Dak. $ 

 Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 80. Oeesalpinia mimosoides, Heyne in Wall. Cat. 6837, non 

 Lam. 0. ferox, Hohen. PL 2nd. Or. Exs. No. 414, non Hassk. 



Hills of WESTERN PENINSULA. "?*. 



A robust woody pr ckly climber. Leaves f-1 ft. long and br.oad ; pinnae 8-12; 

 leaflets 12-14, nearly sessile, oblong, obtuse, or subacute, 1-2 in. lf>%, rigidly subcoria- 

 ceous, glabrous, venulose. Flowers in long simple or panicled dense subspicate 

 racemes with a thick furrowed woody finely brown-downy axis ; bracts minute, lan- 

 ceolate-cuspidate. Calyx | in, scarlet. Petals orange. Pod like that of Casalpinia 

 digyna. 



GLEDITSCHIA SINENSIS, Linn. ; Wall. Cat. 5811, is known in India in cultivation 

 only. 



103. CASSIA, Linn. 



Erect shrubs or trees, rarely herbs. Leaves simple, abruptly pinnate. Floivers 

 usually large and showy, in axillary racemes and^terminal panicles. Calyx- 

 tube very short ; sepals broad or narrow,. imbricatjL / Petals 5, imbricated, sub- 

 equal, usually broad. Stamens normally 10, but , rarely all perfect, 3-5 being 

 often reduced to staminodia or altogether absent ;' anthers mostly but not inva- 

 riably basifixed, dehiscing by terminal pores or with the slit more or less con- 

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

 stigma terminal. Pod very variable, terete or flat, usua% septate, the albumi- 

 nous seeds flattened; sometimes parallel with the valves, sometimes with the septa, 

 dry, dehiscent or iridehiscent. DISTBIB. Species 340, spread everywhere in the 

 tropics, a few extra-tropical. Monographed by Mr. Bentham in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxvii. p. 503, t. 60-3. 



SUBGBN. 1. Fistula, DC. (Cassia, Roxb.} Sepals obtuse. Stamens all 

 bearing anthers, of which those of the 2-3 lowest are larger than the others 

 and the filaments longer. Pods very large, terete. Seeds compressed parallel 

 with the dissepiments. Trees. 



1. C. Fistula, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 490; leaflets 8-16 large narrowed 

 to the point, flowers in long lax racemes, bracts caducous, petals veined bright 

 yellow. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31; Fl. Ind. ii. 333; Wall. Cat. 5302; W. $ A. 

 Prodr. 285 ; Dalz. fy Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 80 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 91. C. rhombifolia, 

 Ro.ib. Hort. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 334 ; Wight. Ic. t. 269. 



CENTRAL and EASTERN HIMALAYAS to CEYLON and MALACCA, ascending to 3000 ft. 

 in KTTMAON, wild and often planted. DISTRIB. China, Malay isles. 



A middle-sized erect tree, glabrous in all its parts. Leaves a foot or more long ; 

 leaflets 2-6 in. long, ovate, distinctly stalked, usually acute, rigidly subcoriaceous, pale 

 green, strongly veined. Racemes as long as the leaves ; pedicels spreading, H-2 in. 

 long. Calyx 3 in., glabrous, caducous. Petals obovate, shortly clawed, f-1 in. 

 deep. Pod 1-2 ft. long, above an inch thick. 



2. C. nodosa, Ham. ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 336 ; branches 

 slightly downy, leaflets 12-24 moderately large pointed, racemes short corymbose, 

 bracts persistent, petals moderately large reddish not veined. Wall. Cat. 5331 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 410. 



EASTERN HIMALAYAS and to MALACCA. DISTRIB. Malay isles, Philippines. 



A tree, reaching a height of 50 feet. Leaves a foot or more long ," leaflets oblong, 

 acute, distinctly stalked, 2-4 in. long, rather oblique at the base, glossy, subcoriace- 

 ous, strongly veined, with a few obscure short hairs below. Racemes from the old 



