166 XXXI. LEGUMINOS^E. [Cassia. 



4. C. angustifolia, Vahl. Syn. C. lanceolata, Forsk. ; Eoyle 111. t. 37. 

 Senna officinalis, Gsertn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 346. Vern. Banna makJci, 

 Pb. 



A busby herbaceous plant. Leaflets 5-8 pair, narrow ovate-lanceolate, 

 stipules subulate, spreading or reflexed. Eacemes exceeding the subtend- 

 ing leaf. Pod broadly oblong, slightly curved, rounded at the extremity, 

 the valves chartaceous, glabrous, smooth, without appendages. 



Sindh, Guzerat, South India, cultivated in the N.W. Provinces. 



5. C. holosericea, Fresenius ; Oliver Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 278. 



A small shrub. Leaflets oblong, 5-8 pair, closely velvety pubescent 

 above and beneath ; stipules subulate, spreading, somewhat rigid. Ra- 

 cemes erect, shorter than leaves. Pod flat, broadly falcate-oblong, rounded 

 at the extremity ; valves thinly chartaceous, pubescent, without append- 

 ages. 



Abyssinia, Nubia, Arabia, Aden, Sindh. 



Ceratonia Siliqua, Linn., the Caroh tree (Algaroba), is indigenous in Spain 

 and Algeria, the eastern part of the Mediterranean region, and in Syria ; its flat 

 pods, full of sweet, nutritious pulp, are a common article of food in the Medi- 

 terranean for man, horses, pigs, and cattle, and are imported into the Panjab 

 under the name of Khamub nubti. A slow-growing evergreen tree, with 

 heavy wood, excellent as fuel, and valued for cabinet-work, has great powers of 

 reproduction, and is satisfied with a scanty supply of moisture. It has been 

 grown in the Panjab, and may prove a valuable introduction. Its character 

 are somewhat anomalous. Abruptly pinnate leaves, small polygamous o: 

 dioecious flowers, without petals, with 5 stamens, versatile anthers, and a broa< 

 disc surrounding the ovary. The structure of the seed, with thick, flat cotyle- 

 dons, enclosed in a fleshy albumen, brings it near the genus Cassia. 



8. SARACA, Linn. 

 Unarmed trees, with abruptly pinnate leaves, and small, caducous 

 stipules. Flowers yellow or red, in short panicles. Calyx-tube long, 

 funnel-shaped, lined with the disc, limb cleft into 4 petaloid, ovate, nearly 

 equal segments, imbricate in bud. Petals wanting. Stamens 3-9, free : 

 anthers oblong, dehiscing longitudinally, on long filaments. Ovary stipi- 

 tate, the stalk adnate to the calyx-tube ; style filiform ; stigma terminal, 

 obtuse. Pod oblong, coriaceous or woody, 2-valved. Seeds without 

 albumen. 



1. S. indica, Linn. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 57. Syn. Jonesia Asoca, Roxb 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 218 j W. & A. Prodr. 284 ; Wight Ic. t. 206. Sans. AsoTca 

 vanjula. Vern. AsoJc, Asoka (Jassundi, Bombay). 



Glabrous, leaves 12 in. long, drooping and coloured when young 

 Leaflets opposite, 4-6 pair, lanceolate, coriaceous, smooth, shining, 3-9 in 

 long. Stipules intrapetiolar, oblong, striate. Flowers in corymbos< 

 panicles, terminal, or at the end of short lateral branches, with numerou 

 ovate, ciliate, coloured bracts, 2 at the base of the calyx persistent, th 

 others at the ramifications of the panicle deciduous. Peduncles am 

 pedicels coloured, flowers orange on expanding, gradually changing t< 





