Cassia.] Legummosce. 109 



from axils of young 1., the whole forming a large terminal 

 inflor. ; cal.-segm. pubescent ; pet. rather narrow, fil. of perfect 

 stam. all very short; pod about 4 in. by \ in. wide, very 

 shortly stalked, pointed, very flat, the sutures not thickened, 

 glabrous and shining, thin and flexible, 14-20-seeded with 

 raised transverse lines marking the partitions between them, 

 brownish-black. 



Moist low country; rather rare. Heneratgoda ; Sitawaka ; Four 

 Korales Dist. Fl. September ; yellow. 



Also found in Burma and the Malay Islands, the Philippines, and N. 

 Australia, but not in Peninsular India. 



C. glanca, Lam., I know here only as a garden plant. There are 

 specimens from Moon (C. P. 1526) in Herb. Perad. and in his Cat. (p. 33) 

 he gives Colombo as locality. See also Thw. Enum. 96. There are also 

 specimens from Macrae in Herb. Kew. 



Some leaves from Trincomalie, collected by Glenie in 1864, are in 

 Herb. Perad. labelled by Thwaites ' (?) C. suffruticosa, Koenig, 5 but are 

 scarcely determinable. 



10. C. Absus,* L. Sft. PI. 376 (1753)- Bu-tora, S. 

 Herm. Mus. 15. Burm. Thes. 212. Fl. Zeyl. n. 153. Moon Cat. 2,3- 

 Thw. Enum. 96. C. P. 1506. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 265. Burm. Thes. t. 97. 



An erect annual, 6-18 in. high, with few horizontal 

 branches densely covered with spreading glandular hair ; 1. 

 small, spreading or deflexed, rachis f-i in., swollen at base, 

 covered like the stem with viscous hairs, with an erect minute 

 linear gland between the lflts. of every pair, stip. small, linear, 

 lflts. 4 (2 pair) very shortly stalked, closely placed at end of 

 rachis, broadly oval or obovate-oval, unequal at base, rounded 

 with a minute mucro at apex, glabrous above, slightly hairy 

 but not glandular beneath, the terminal pair the larger; fl. 

 small, a little over \ in., on very viscous ped. longer than cal., 

 in leaf-opposed erect racemes longer than 1., cal. slightly 

 glandular-hairy, segm. oblong ; pet. with long claws, veiny; 

 stam. 5, equal, all fertile, opening by slits not pores; ov. densely 

 bristly; pod 1-2 in. by \-% in. wide, nearly straight, oblique, 

 tipped with short style-base, compressed, with long, scattered, 

 white, bristly hairs, 6-8-seeded, with depressed lines outside 

 at the partitions ; seed trapezoid, compressed, dark brown, 

 brilliantly shining. 



Low country, especially in the dry region ; common. Fl. Dec, Jan.; 

 yellowish-pink. 



Found throughout the Tropics of the Old World. 



A very distinct species. Hermann gives the name ' Telamandukola ' 

 for this. The seeds are employed in medicine. 



* Absus is the name of Prosper Alpinus for this, probably taken from 

 some Egyptian one. 



