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young lively green foliage." Eemarkable also for its curious 

 cylindrical black seed-pods, as much as two feet long. 



2. C. marginata. A small tree with wide-spreading branches 

 and graceful small-leaflet foliage ; remarkably beautiful in the 

 Hot season, when in blossom, with its profusion of racemes of 

 small rose-coloured flowers, looking at some distance off like 

 the flowering Kibes. Major Drury considers it " something 

 like the Weeping Ash." A common plant on the Madras side, 

 but I have not noticed it in the gardens about Calcutta. Dr. 

 Wight says it is so nearly allied to the following as to be 

 frequently confounded with it. 



3. C. Javanica. C. Bacillus of Koxburgh, who describes it as 

 a native of the Malay Islands, blossoming in the Hot season 

 with racemes of flowers of a lovely pink or rose-colour, and 

 says, " when in flower it is by far the most beautiful Cassia I 

 have yet seen." 



4. C. florida. Dr. Wight describes this as " a small but beau- 

 tiful tree, particularly when in flower, every branch of it termi- 

 nating in a large panicle of deep yellow blossoms." It is in 

 flower at nearly all times of the year. 



5. C. glauca. A very common small tree with wide-spreading 

 branches ; bears during the latter half of the year racemes of 

 large sulphur-coloured flowers. 



6. C. Australis, A shrub of about ten feet in height; very 

 ornamental for its deep green, handsome, small-leaflet foliage, 

 and the spreading habit of its branches, but of extraordinary 

 beauty when in full blossom in October, and profusely covered 

 with its large close racemes of bright golden flowers. 



7. C. alata Ddd-murdun. A remarkably stately shrub of 

 spreading habit, and occupying a considerable space of ground, 

 with noble foliage of great, obovate, oblong leaflets ; extremely 

 handsome when in full blossom, in the Cold season, it lifts aloft 

 its great terminal cone-shaped racemes of closely-packed, large, 

 deep-yellow flowers. 



8. C. auriculata. A small very common shrub, with dense, 

 agreeable foliage, easily distinguished by the ear-like appendage 

 between each pair of leaflets ; ornamental when in blossom in 

 the Cold season, with its abundant large yellow flowers. 



9. C. Macraei- A small shrub with pretty delicate foliage: orna- 

 mental when covered in profusion with its small golden flowers 



