Cassia.] LEOUMINOSAE. 403 



A diffuse perennial herb with pale yellow flowers. The 

 leaves are sometimes used as a. substitute for senna. 



14. CASSIA GLAUCA, Lamk. ; F. B. I. ii. 265 ; W. & A. 289. 



W. Ghats, scarce as a wild plant, commonly planted in 

 gardens. 



A handsome shrub or small tree with pale yellow flowers 

 and reflexed bracts. 



Yar. suffruticosa, Prain. C. Bufruticosa, W. & A. 289. 

 Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, chiefly on E. side. 

 A shrub with smaller leaflets, flowers and pod, the leaflets 

 more numerous. 



15. CASSIA ABSUS, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 265 ; W. & A. 291. 



All dry Districts, on waste lands and in open forest. 



A viscous annual or biennial with very small reddish-yellow 



flowers. 



16. CASSIA PUMILA, Lamk.; F. B. I. ii. 266; W. A. 292. 



Deccan and Carnatic, in pasture lands. 



A small diffuse or procumbent undershrub with small 



yellow flowers on very short pedicels. 



17. CASSIA KLEINII, W. & A. 293; F. B. I. ii. 266. 



Deccan, in Cuddapah ; W. Coast in S. Canara, Malabar 

 and Travancore, scarce. 



A diffuse undershrub with rather large yellow flowers, 

 usually with long pedicels. 



1 s. CASSIA MIMOSOIDES, Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 266. C. angustissima, 

 Lamk. ; W. & A. 292. 



N. Circars, hills of Gumsur; Deccan, in hills as Horsley 

 Konda and Ramaiidrug, up to 4,000 ft. ; W. Ghats, in 

 Malabar, Nilgiris, Anamalais and Travancore Hills, up to 

 6,000 ft. 



A diffuse undershrub with long slender branches and 

 yellow flowers. 



19. CASSIA LESCHENAULTIANA, DC. ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. Ixvi. ii. 477. C. WaUichiana, DC.; W. & A. 292. 

 C. mimosoides var. WaUichiana, Baker in F. B. I. ii. 266. 



W. Ghats, in the Nilgiri, Anamalai and Pulney Hills up to 

 6.000 ft., in grass lands; Deccan, in the hills of Mysore. 

 A suberect undershrub with yellow flowers. 



20. CASSIA NIGRICANS, Yahl ; Pram in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 Ixvi. ii. 477 



