Cassia.] LEGUMINOSAE. 401 



A moderate-sized tree with pale smooth bark when young, 

 darker and rough when old, at once recognised by its long 

 racemes of bright yellow flowers and long cylindrical pod. 

 The wood is very hard, reddish-brown, strong and durable, 

 especially useful for agricultural work. Yern. Hind. 

 Amaltas ; Ur. Sunari ; Tel. Rela ; Tani. Konnei ; Mai. 

 Konna ; Kan. Kakke. 



2. CASSIA MARGINATA, Roxb. ; F. B. I. ii. 262. C. Roxburghii, 

 DC. ; W. & A. 286 ; Wt. 111. t. 83 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 180. 



Camatic, in forests from S. Arcot to Travancore, elsewhere 

 often planted for ornament. 



A small deciduous tree with brown bark, short axillary 

 racemes of rose-coloured flowers and a pod like that of 

 the first, only shorter and more torulose. Yern. Tarn. 

 Yakai ; Mai. Kada konna. 



3. CASSIA OCCIDENTALS, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 262 ; W. & A. 290. 



All plains Districts, by roadsides and on waste lands, 

 perhaps introduced from W. Indies. 



A diffuse undershrub with yellow flowers. Yern. Hind. 

 Kasondi ; Tel. Cashanda; Tarn. Payaverai. 



4. CASSIA SOPHERA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 262 ; W. &. A. 287. 



All plains Districts, by roadsides and on waste lands. 



A diffuse undershrub with yellow flowers. Yern. Hind. 



Kasondi; TcL Pydi-tangedu ; Tarn. Ponaveri. 



5. CASSIA HIRSUTA, Linn. ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 Ixvi. 2. 474. 



Deccan, in the Babubudaii Hills of Mysore, 4,000 ft. 

 (Talbot) ; Raimmdrug, Bellary (Lushiiigton), also in the 

 Camatic near Madras ; an introduction from America 

 now run wild. 

 A diffuse undershrub with flowers in pairs in the leaf -axils. 



6. CASSIA TORA, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 263 in part W. & A. 290 

 /// part. 



All plains Districts, oil waysides, waste places, fallow lands 

 and in forest undergrowth, also in the hills at low eleva- 

 tions, up to 4,000 ft. 



An annual weed, almost an undershrub, with small yellow 

 flowers and very long curved pods with rhombohedral seeds 

 which give a blue dye. Yern. Hind. Chakimda ; Tel. 

 Tantipu; Tarn. Tagerai. 



