Citssia.] 'Ml LEOUMiNus.E. 79 



CASSIA, Linn. 



Trees, slirnbs or lierbs. Leaves abruptly pimiate. Flowers 

 yellow, in axillary racomcs and teriniDal panicles. Calyx-tube very 

 short ; sepals imbi-icated. Petals 5, nearly equal, imbricate. 

 Stamens 10, all perfect or 3-5 more or less abortive. Pod indehis- 

 ccnt or 2-valvcd. 



stamens all perfect. Trees. 



Pod long, cylindrical ... ... ... ... ... ... C.fMula. 



Pod flat, strap-shaped ... ... ... .. C. ijlauca. 



Perfect stamens 7. 



stipules large, lunate. Pod not winged. Shrub.... .. C. (turkulala. 



Stipules deltoid. Pod winged. Shrub. ... ... .., C. (data. 



Stipules minute, caducuous. 



Pod ligulate, not winged, sutures thicl^ened. Tree. ... C, siavica. 



Sutures of i^od not thickened. Glabrescent. Shrub. ... G.montana. 



Stipules persistent. All parts brown pubescent. Tree.... G. thiioric-ntii!?. 



C. fistula, Linn. ; DC. Prod. II. 490; Fl. Br. I. 2. 261 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 91 ; Dalz. &Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 80 ; Brandis For. Fl. 1G4. The Indian 

 labui'num. Boya, bahaiva, M. ; hakkai, K. ; chimhani, Sind ; rjinnala, 

 Deccan, Gujarat. Throughout the presidency in deciduous forests. 

 Fl. Apl., May. Fr. C. S. 



C. auriculata, Linn. ; DC. Prod. II. 496 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 263 ; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 92 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 81 ; Brandis For. Fl. 165. Tunoar, 

 arsul, Vera. Coramou in the dry zone throughout the presidency. Fl. 

 throughout the year. 



C. siamea, Lam. ; DC. Prod. II. 499 ; Fl. Br. 1. 2. 264. C. iiorida, Vahl. 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 179. G. sumatrana, W. & A. Dalz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. 

 Suppl. 29. Kassod, M. Introduced, common throughout the presi- 

 dency, often planted along road-sides. 



C. alata, Linn. ; DC. Prod. II. 492 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 264 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bom. Fl. Suppl. 29; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 92. Introduced from the West 

 Indies into the Deccan and Konkan. 



C. montana, Hcyne ; DC. Prod. II. 499 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 264 ; Dalz. & 



Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 205. Moist forests of the Belgaum and I^orth Kanara 

 ghats. Fl. July, Aug. Fr. C.S. 



C. timoiiensis, DC Prod. II. 409 ; Fl. Br. I. 2. 265 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 92. Indigenous in the forests of North Kanara from the ghats in Goa 

 southwards, common in the moist forests of the Ankola and Kumta 

 talukas. Fl. Oct. Fr. ripe C S. (a small tree or large shrub). 



C. glauca, Lam.; DC. Prod. II. 495; F). Br, I. 2. 265; Bedd. Fl. 

 Sylv. 91. Ualz. & Gibs. Bom. Fl. Suppl. 30. In the forests of the Dec- 

 can and North Kj'mara. Common in the forests of the Dharwar district 

 near the North Kanara border at Devikope. Fl. Fr. Oct. Nov. 



C. Goonsis, Dalz. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 92. A large shrub ; foot of the 

 Bombay ghats and several cultivated species (C lanceolata, W. k A., 



