266 L. LEGUMINOSJ). (J. G. Baker.) [Cassia. 



An erect annual, 1-2 ft. high, with stem and leaves clothed with grey bristly vis- 

 cose hairs. Leaves long-petioled ; leaflets oblong, very oblique, 1-2 in. long, obtuse 

 or subacute : stipules small, linear, persistent. Racemes narrow, equalling or exceed- 

 ing the leaves. Sepals lanceolate, bristly, -~ in. Corolla reddish-yellow, very small. 

 Pod oblique, ligulate, 1-1^ in. long, 5-6-seeded, the thin valves beset with grey bristly 

 hairs. 



* Leaflets very numerous, close, small, narrow, rigidly subcoriaceous (Mimo- 

 soideae). ^ 



16. C. pumila, Lam. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 504; gland of petiole stipitate, 

 stamens 5, seeds 6-12. Wall. Cat. 5327; W. $ A. Prodr. 292. 0. prostrata, 

 Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 82. Senna prostrata, 'Roxb. Fl. 

 2nd. ii; 352. 



From the HIMALAYAS (ascending to 6-7000 ft.) to CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay 

 isles, Trop. Australia. 



A low very diffuse shrub, with slender finely downy branches. Leaf 1-2 in. long ; 

 leaflets 20-40, j-^ in. long, distinctly mucronate, the midrib close to the upper border; 

 stipules linear, rigid, persistent. Flowers usually solitary in the axils of the leaves, 

 on very short pedicels. Sepals in. Corolla little exserted. Anthers 5 equal. Pod 

 3j-l^ in. by ^- in. Probably this and the next are mere varieties of C. mimo- 

 soides. 



17. C. Kleinii, W. fy A. Prodr. 293; gland of petiole stipitate, stamens 

 10, seeds 10-15. 0. dimidiata, Klein; Wall. Cat. 5328,not Don. 



WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DJSTRIB. Java. 



Very like C. pumila,^mt more robust, the branches thinly or densely pilose. 

 Leaflets 20-40, reduced tcr8-l 2 on the lowest leaves, f- in. long, rigidly coriaceous, 

 strongly veined, with a distinct oblique mucro, the midrib close to the upper border. 

 Flowers 13 together in the axils of the leaves, on downy bracteate pedicels. Calyx 

 \-% in. Petals obovate, little exserted. Pod 1^-2 in. long, rather recurved, black- 

 ish, glabrescent. 



18. C. mimosoides, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 505 ; gland of petiole 

 sessile, stamens 10 rarely 5, seeds 10-20. C. angustissima, 'Lam. ; DC. Prodr. 

 loc./cit. ; W. $ A. Prodr. 292. 0. Roxburghiana, Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5323. 

 0. aniosna, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 5321. C. sensitiva and tenella, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 

 32. Senna sensitiva and tenella, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 353-4. 



HIMALAYAS, ascending to 5-6000 ft. in KUMAON and KHASIA, to CEYLON and MA- 

 LACCA. DISTRIB. Cosmopolitan in Tropics. 



A low diffuse perennial, with slender shrubby finely downy branches. Leaves 

 1-3 in. long, with a solitary sessile gland on the rachis below the leaflets ; leaflets 

 60-100, linear, rigidly coriaceous, ^- in. long, obliquely mucronate, with the midrib 

 .close to the upper border; stipules large, linear-subulate, persistent. Flowers 1-2 toge- 

 ther dn the axils of the leaves on short pedicels. Sepals - in., lanceolate-acuminate, 

 bristly. Corolla little exserted. Stamens 10, alternately longer and shorter, Pod 

 /'strap-shaped, flat, dehiscent, l|-2in. by % in, nearly straight, glabrescent or finely 

 downy ; septa more or less oblique. 



VAR. 1. dimidiata ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32, sp. ; leaves and flowers of the type but 

 the stamens 5 only. Senna dimidiata, Buck, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 352. Himalayas. 



VAR. 2. Wallichidfta ; DC. Prodr. ii. 505, sp. ; finely downy, leaflets larger |-i in. 

 long and llss rigid, flowers larger - in. long. Wall. Cat. 5320 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 

 292. C. Leschenaultii, Wall. Cat. 5325. C. myriophylla, Wall. Cat. 5326. C. 

 Telfairiana, Watt. Cat. 5324 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5874. Distribution of the type. 



VAR. 3. auricoma ; Grah. in Wall. Cat. 5322, sp. ; flowers and leaves of the last, 

 but the branches densely clothed with fine spreading hairs. 



