Cassia.'] L. LEGUMINOSJ:. (J. G. Baker.) 267 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



C. JAVANICA, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 490, Wall. Cat. 5309 (C. Bacillus, Gaertn. ; 

 Rojb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 337- Wt. Icones, t. 252) differs from C. nodosa by its smaller and 

 more obtuse leaflets. It is sometimes cultivated within our limits and is wild in the 

 Malay isles. A plant gathered by Griffith near Prome is either a .variety with leaflets 

 densely pubescent beneath or a new species. The inflorescence of both this and the 

 Malay plant corresponds with that of C. nodosa. 



104. CYNOIMETRA, Linn. 



Erect unarmed trees. Leaves with few coriaceous odd-pinnate leaflets. 

 Flowers copious, minute, in axillary corymbs or racemes. Cal x with a very 

 short tube and subbasal disk ; divisions 4-5, oblong, imbricated. Petals 5, 

 oblanceolate, equal, not exserted. Stamens 10, or in C. polyandra indefinite, 

 filaments erect, free, filiform, exserted ; anthers small, oblong, versatile, dehis- 

 cing longitudinally. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, 2-ovuled ; style filiform, 

 stigma capitate. Pod turgid, oblique-oblong, with very thick indehiscent 

 usually rugose tough somewhat fleshy valves. Seed exalbuminous, central, 

 filling up the cavity. DISTEIB. Species 20, spread everywhere in the tropics. 



SUBGEN. 1. Eucynometra. Stamens 10. 



1. C. ramiflora, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 509 ; leaflets 2-4', racemes 

 usually solitary corymbose axillary from the branchlets, pod turgid rugose. 

 W. $ A. Prodr. 293 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl.83 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 315. 0. 

 cauliflora, Wall. Cat. 5816, ex parte. 



WESTERN PENINSULA and CEYLON. DISTRIB. Malay isles, Philippines, N. Aus- 

 tralia. 



Leaflets 1 -jugate and 2-jugate mixed or often all 1 -jugate, subsessile, if 2-jugate 

 (var. keterophylla, Thwaites) the upper muck the largest, oblong, subacute very 

 oblique, 3-6 in. long ; petiole ^ 1 in. Racemes few-flowered, corymbose, sessile 

 from the axils of the leaves of the branchlets, with the primary axis not produced, 

 rarely geminate ; outer scales ovate, - in. ; pedicels |-^ in. Sepals in. Puds 

 turgid, very rugose,' -1 in. long, subsessile. 



VAR. mimosoides, Wall. Cat. 5817, sp. ; leaflets all bijugate not so unequal as in 

 the bijugate form of the type much smaller 1-3 in. long more obtuse aud thicker, 

 flowers and pod smaller, the latter pointed and very deeply wrinkled. C. bijuga, 

 Spanog. ; Miq. Flor. 2nd. Sat. i. 78. Western Peninsula, Pegu, Tenasserim. 



2. C. travancorica, Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 316 ; leaflets 2, flowers in sessile 

 corvmbs from the branchlets, pod flat smooth. 



South TRAVANCORE and in the CARNATIC near Tinnerelly, alt. 2-4000 ft., Beddome. 



Petioles | in. ; leaflets always unijugate, oblique oblong-lanceolate, subacute, 

 glabrous, 2-3 in. long. Racemes solitary, copious, rounded, Tew-flowered, with the 

 central axis not 'at all produced ; bracts in., deltoid ; pedicels erecto-patent, - in. 

 Sepals in., finally reflexed. Filaments twice the length of the sepals. Pod flat, 

 smooth, firm, semicircular, sessile, l-l in. long. 



3. C. ineequifolia, A. Gray Hot. U.S. Expl. Expedit. 473; leaflets 

 4-6, flowers in very dense oblong sessile solitary or geminate racemes from the 

 branchlets, pod flat smooth. 



MALACCA, Maingay. DISTRIB. Philippines, Cuming, 1297. 



Leaflets subcoriaceous, rigid, glabrous, oblique, obovate-oblong, subequal, in our 

 specimens 2-3 in. long. Flowers in very dense oblong sessile cone-like racemes, 1^-2 

 in. long, the central axis produced ; outer bracts round-cordate, obtuse, in. ; pedicels 



