404 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Cassia. 



W. Coast, in S. Canara (Hohenacker) ; Carnatic, near 

 Tuticorinin Tinnevelly (Wight), a coast species apparently. 

 A shrub or undershrub with] yellowish-red flowers, 2-5 

 together on rather stout pedicels some distance above the 

 leaves. 



Cassia alata, Linn., is a handsome shrub or small tree which 

 has been introduced probably from the W. Indies, and is cultivated 

 in gardens and possibly sometimes found run wild. C. angustifolia, 

 Yahl; F. B. I. ii. 264 (C. lanceolata, W. & A. 288) is the Tinnevelly 

 senna cultivated in S. India for its leaves, which afford a purga- 

 tive drug. C. grandis, Linn, f., is a large tree sometimes cultivated 

 for ornament and in avenues. 



68. Dialium, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves imparipinnate, leaflets subopposite or alternate ; 

 stipules small ; stipels 0, Flowers small, in axillary or terminal 

 panicles of small cymules; bracts and bracteoles small, caducous. 

 Calyx-tube very short ; lobes 5, petaloid, imbricate. Petals small 

 or 0. Stamens 2, rarely 3, free, with short filaments ; anthers 

 erect, oblong, longitudinally dehiscent. Ovary sessile, 2-ovuled ; 

 style subulate ; stigma small, terminal. Pod ovoid -globose, 

 indehiscent, 1- seeded; exocarp hard or fragile; endocarp usually 

 pulpy. Seed 1, more or less compressed, albuminous ; cotyledons 

 flat. 



DIALIUM TRAVANCORICUM, Bourd. in Ind. For. xxx. 243 with 



fig. 



W. Ghats, in the forests of S. Travancore near Ponmudi at 

 1,000-2,000 ft. 



A very large evergreen tree with globose pods and leaves 

 with 7-11 caudate-acuminate leaflets 2-3 in. long by about 

 1 in. broad. The bark is pale brown and smooth and the 

 wood brownish-grey with darker lines, likely to be useful. 

 Yern. Mai. Malam puli. 



69. Bauhinia, Linn. 

 Trees or shrubs, erect or climbing, the latter often with 



circinate tendrils. Leaves of 2 leaflets, free or more usually 

 adnate into one entire leaf more or less deeply cleft at the apex 

 and palmately ribbed ; stipules usually small, caducous. Flowers 

 more or less zygomorphic, in terminal or rarely axillary racemes 



