262 L. LEGUMINOSJ:. (J. G. Baker.) [Cassia. 



branches, dense, under half a foot long ; bracts silky, lanceolate, persistent ; pedicels 

 twice the length of the flower, lower deflexed. Sepals downy, - in. Petals ob- 

 long, acute, f-1 in. deep. Pod a ft. long, in. thick. 



3. C. marg-inata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 81 ; Fl Ind. ii. 338 ; branchlets 

 densely tomentose, leaflets 30-40 'small obtuse, racemes short subcorymbose, 

 bracts persistent, petals small* reddish not veined. 0. Roxburghii, DC. Prodr. 

 ii. 489 ; Watt. Cat. 5308 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 286 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 180 ; Wight 

 Illust. t. 83. 



CEYLON and WESTERN PENINSULA. 



Branches slender, sulcate. Leaves -1 ft. long; leaflets oblong, deeply emarginate, 

 with a distinct mucro, l-l in. long, rigidly siibcoriaceous, very oblique, strongly 

 reined, persistently grey-downy beneath. Flowers in copious short axillary racemes 

 and terminal panicles; bracts ovate-cuspidate; pedicels under 1 in. long. Flowers 

 and pod like that of C. nodosa, but much smaller. 



4. C. renigrera, Wall. Cat. 5307 ; branches densely pubescent, leaflets 

 30-40 moderately small obtuse 3-4 times as long as broad, flowers unknown. 

 Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 518 ; Kurz in Joum. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xlii. 

 2,71. 



BIRMA ; Taong-dong mountains and banks of the Irrawaddi, Wallich. 



Closely allied to C. marginata. Leaves 1 ft. long ; leaflets close, nearly ses- 

 sile, ligulate-oblong, 1| 2 in. long, broadly rounded at both ends, slightly oblique, 

 rigidly coriaceous, finely grey-downy below ; -stipules oblong, cuspidate, large, mem- 

 branous, persistent, fastened above the base. Pod 1 foot long, cylindrical, indehiscent, 

 glabrous. 



SUBGEN. 2. Senna (Roxb. ex parte, as a genus). Sepals obtuse. Perfect 

 stamens 7, the anthers subequal or those of the 2-3 lowest larger than th 

 others ; three posterior filaments without anthers. Pods compressed, rareh 

 terete, the seeds usually flattened parallel with the valves. Some trees, some 

 shrubby herbs. 



* Leaf with a single large gland placed jmt above the base of the common 



petiole. 



>\ C. occidentalis, Linn. : DC. Prodr. ii. 497 ; leaflets 6-10 ovate- 

 obloujr. Ro.rb. Hort. 7>,,//. 31 ; W. 8f A. Prodr. 290; Bot. Reg. t. 83 ; Dalz. 

 $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 81. Senna occidentalis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 343. C. fcetida, 

 7V.s. Syn. i. 457. 0. Sophera, Wall. Cat,. 5317, ex parte. 



Scattered from the HIMALAYAS, to CEYLON, probably introduced. DISTRIB. Cos- 

 mopolitan in the tropics. 



A diffuse subglabrous undershrub, a few feet high, usually only of annual dura- 

 tion. Leaves | ft. long; leaflets glaucous, foetid, acuminate, 1-3 in. long, glabrous or 

 finely pubescent. Racemes short-peduncled, few-flowered, corymbose, axillary and 

 forming a terminal panicle ; bracts thin, orate-acuminate, caducous ; pedicels spreading, 

 h-% in. Stpals obtuse, glabrous, \~ in. Petals i in. pule lilac, conspicuously veined. 

 Pod 4-5 in. by ^ in., rather recurved, glabrous, subcompressed, distinctly torulose. 

 Seeds 15-30. 



fi. C. Sophera, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 492 ; leaflets 12-24 oblong-lanceo- 

 late. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31 ; Wall. Cat. 5317, ex parte ; W. $ A. Prodr. 287 ; 

 Dalz. # Gibs. Bomb. Fl 81. Senna Sophera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 347. S. escu- 

 lenta, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 346. Cassia esculenta, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31. C. chi- 

 neusis, Jacq. Ic. t. 73. C. frutescens, Mill. Diet. No. 2. 0. coromandeliana, 

 Jacq. Fragm. 67, t. 100. Rheede Hort. Mai. ii. t. 52. 



