398 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Acrocarpus. 



the flowers green with crimson stamens, the leaflets elliptic- 

 lanceolate, 3-4 in. long, bright red when young. Bark light 

 grey; wood light red, useful for building and furniture. 

 Yern. Tain. Malam konne ; Mai. Kurangan. 



67. Cassia, Linn. 



Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the rhachis 

 often furnished with glands between the leaflets or on the petiole 

 below them ; stipules various ; stipels 0. Flowers usually yellow, 

 often large and showy, in axillary racemes, terminal panicles 

 or supra-axillary fascicles of 1 or more ; bracts and bracteoles 

 present, various. Calyx-tube very short ; lobes 5, imbricate. 

 Petals 5, imbricate, subequal or the lower the largest. Stamens 

 normally 10 but rarely all perfect and equal, 2-5 usually the 

 uppermost, being sometimes wanting or reduced to staminodes ; 

 anthers of the 3 lowest stamens often the longest, all dehiscing 

 by terminal pores or by a short slit. Ovary sessile or stalked, 

 many-ovuled; style incurved; stigma terminal, usually truncate, 

 sometimes ciliolate. Pod variable, dehiscent or indehiscent, 

 terete or flat, usually septate between the seeds. Seeds transverse, 

 rarely longitudinal, usually compressed, albuminous. 

 Sepals broad, obtuse : 



Stamens all antheriferous, but the 2-3 lowest larger than the 

 others and with longer filaments ; pods long, terete, indehiscent, 

 cylindrical, transversely septate : 



Leaflets 4-8 pairs, ovate, acute, 2-6 in. long ; petals yellow ; pod 



1-2 ft. long- 1. Fistula. 



Leaflets 10-20 pairs, oblong, obtuse, 1-2 in. long ; petals rose- 

 coloured; pod under 6 in. long ..- 2. marginata. 



Stamens with 6-7 antheriferous, the rest reduced to staminodes 

 pods usually dehiscent, transversely septate : 



Leaves with 1 gland just above the base of the petiole, none 

 between the leaflets : 



Leaves almost glabrous ; pods compressed, torn lose, the 

 margins thickened : 



Leaflets 3-5 pairs, ovate, acuminate, 1-3 in. long ; pods flat 



3. occidentalis. 

 Leaflets 5-10 pairs, oblong-lanceolate, about 1 in. long ; 



pods more or less turgid 4. Sophera. 



Leaves and pods hirsute ; leaflets about 4 pairs, lanceolate, 

 2-4 in. long ; pods slender, flattened 5. hirsuta. 



