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Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, 720-1500 m., Hosseus, 478, Kerr, 1729. 



To this species probably belongs Griffith's Prome Hill specimen 

 (Kew Distr., 1909) mentioned in Flora of British India, vol. ii. 

 p. 267 by Mr. Baker as a variety of C.javanica or a new species. 



In his first paper Hosseus enumerates this plant as Cassia nodosa 

 and in his second maintains C. Bakeriana but in a footnote remarks 

 that he is doubtful if it can be retained as a good species. In the 

 writer's opinion it is readily distinguished from C. nodosa by the 

 size of the flowers. Of true C. javanica there are in Herb. Kew 

 only two apparently wild specimens, both collected in Java and 

 these agree exactly with various cultivated specimens, e.g. those 

 issued under that name from the Calcutta Gardens. The Philippine 

 plant which commonly passes under the name of C. javanica is quite 

 distinct from that species in several points, the more evident of 

 which are the indumentum and colour of the branchlets, the shape 

 and size of the stipules, the shape and indumentum of the leaflets 

 and the shape of the petals and bracts. After a careful examination 

 of the material in Herb. Kew the writer is convinced that so far as 

 that material goes C. javanica is confined to Java. 



Cassia Fistula, Linn. — F.B.I., ii. p. 261 ; For. Fl. Burma, i. 

 p. 391 • Coll. et Hemsl., Journ. Linn. Soc, xxviii. p. 51 ; Prain, 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxvi. p. 473 ; Hosseus, i. p. 481. 



Chiengmai, Doi Sootep, 660 m., Kerr, 1194, 1194a; Bangkok, 

 Zimmerrnann, 60. 



Distr. India, China, Malaya — often planted in the tropics. 



Lao name, Lom Leng (ex Kerr). 



Cassia Garrettiana, Craib, C. racemosae, Mill., sensu stricto 

 affinis, sed foliolis ovato-lanceolatis vel anguste ovatis acuminatis 

 acutis, racemis brevius pedunculatis in axillis plerumque geminis, 

 floribus majoribus recedit. 



Frutex vel arbuscula (ex Kerr), ramulis puberulis cortice rubro- 

 brunneo striato obtectis. Folia abrupte pinnata, circiter 15 cm. 

 longa, petiolo communi 3*5-5 cm. longo suffulta, petiolo ima basi 

 puberulo et ut rhachi supra canaliculato ; foliola utrinque 7, ovato- 

 lanceolata vel anguste ovata, apice acuminata, acuta, basi rotundata 

 vel late cuneata, 3*5-8 cm. longa, 2-3*6 cm. lata, rigide chartacea, 

 utrinque glabra, margine cartilagineo, nervis lateralibus utrinque 

 saltern 10 intra marginem arcuatis supra conspicuis vel prominulis 

 subtus subconspicuis vel fere prominulis, nervis transversis uti 

 reticulatione gracili subtus conspicuis ; petioluli 2-4 mm. longi, 

 supra canaliculati, glabri vel fere glabri. Racemi axillares, gemini, 

 ad 10 cm. longi, in paniculas terminales dispositi ; pedunculus com- 

 munis plerumque vix 1*5 cm. longus ; rhachis valde nodosa, ut 

 pedunculo densius molliter puberula ; pedicelli sub anthesin 

 2*5-3 cm, longi, puberuli, infructescentes ad 3*5 cm. longi, paullo 

 incrassati ; bracteae parvae, deciduae. Sepala rotundata vel late 

 elliptica, 0*7-1 cm. longa, 0*5-0*7 cm. lata. Petala obovata vel 

 obovato-elliptica, 1 cm. longa, 8 mm. lata, breviter unguiculata. 

 Stamina, fertilia 7. Ovarium subsessile, fere glabrum. Legumen 

 compressum, 15 cm. longitudinis vix attingens, 3*6 cm. latum, apicu- 

 latum, in stipitem 5 mm. longum attenuatum, valvis brunneis tenuiter 



