Cassia."] 



Leguminos.cE. 



103 



1. C. Fistula. 



2. C. MARGINATA. 



pores ( rarely by slits ) ; pod various, flat or cylindrical, 

 dehiscent or indehiscent, with partitions between the usually 

 numerous seeds; seed with more or less abundant endosperm, 

 embryo with flat cotyledons. — Sp. about 340 ; 1 8 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Pod terete, very large. 



Lflts. 4-6 



Lflts. 20-30 



Pod more or less flattened. 

 Three upper stam. barren. 



Petiole with one gland at base. 



Lflts. 8-10 



Lflts. 12-20 .... 



Petiole with glands between one < 

 pairs of lflts. 

 Lflts. 6 . 



Lflts. 16-24 .... 

 Petiole without glands. 

 Lflts. 8-12 ; pod 1^ in. 

 Lflts. 12-20 ; pod 8-12 in. . 

 Lflts. 20-30 ; pod 4 in. 

 All stam. perfect. 



Stam. 5; lflts. 4 . 

 Stam. 10 ; lflts. very numerous. 

 Gland on petiole distinctly stalked 

 Gland on petiole sessile . 



3. C. OCCIDENTALS. 



4. C. SOPHERA. 



5. C. TORA. 



6. C. AURICULATA. 



7. C. OBTUSA. 



8. C. SIAMEA. 



9. C. TIMORIENSIS. 



10. C. Absus. 



11. C. Kleinii. 



12. C. MIMOSOIDES. 



i. C. Fistula,* L. Sp. PL 377 (1753). Eh£la, S, Tirukkontai, 



Kavani, T. 



Burm. Thes. 56. Fl. Zeyl. n. 149. Cathartocarpus Fistula, Pers., 

 Moon Cat. 34. Thw. Enum. 95. C. P. 1502. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 261. Wight, Ic. t. 269 (C. rhombifolid). Bentl. and 

 Trim. Med. PI. ii. t. 87. 



A small or moderate-sized tree, with a straight trunk and 

 slender branches, bark smooth and pale grey when young, 

 dark brown and rough when old ; 1. large, rachis 6-12 in., 

 glabrous, stip. minute, setaceous, lflts. 4-12 (2-6 pair) distinctly 

 stalked, articulated with rachis, 2-6 in., ovate, acute at base, 

 obtusely acuminate, quite glabrous, stiff, pale yellowish-grey, 

 veiny; fl. large \\-2 in., on slender glabrous spreading ped. 

 about \\ in. long, in very lax long-stalked pendulous axillary 

 racemes longer than 1., bracts lanceolate, caducous ; cal. 

 glabrous, scgm. concave, very obtuse ; pet. concave, veined ; 

 3 lowest stam. with very long doubly curved exscrtcd fil. and 

 oblong anth. dehiscing longitudinally, 4 lat. ones with short 

 straight fil. and versatile anth. opening by pores at the base, 



* ' Cassia fistula'' was the mediaeval pharmacists' name for the pods, 

 having been transferred to them from some variety of Cinnamon Bark. 



