IIO LeguminosCB. [Cassia. 



ii. C. Kleinii, W. and A. Prod. 293 (1834). Bin-siyambala, 5 



Thw. Enum. 96. C. P. 1508. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 266. 



A perennial herb with a woody base, 1-3 ft. high, much- 

 branched, spreading, rigid, glabrous or pilose ; 1. numerous, 

 rachis 1-1 \ in., pilose, with a small, distinctly stalked peltate 

 gland just below lowest pair of lflts., stip. linear-acuminate, 

 striate, acute, rigid, persistent, lflts. 16-40 (8-20 pair) sessile, 

 crowded, overlapping, about \ in., strongly mucronate, oblong, 

 •oblique, the midrib close to upper edge ; fl. \ in., on slender 

 ped. \ in. long, 1-3 in. the axils ; cal.-segm. very acute; stam. 

 10, fil. unequal; pod if-2 in. by i in. wide, slightly curved 

 upwards, abruptly pointed, sparingly pilose especially on 

 suture, 10-12-seeded, dark brown. 

 Var. (3, pilosa, Thw. I. c. 97. 



Branches and lflts. densely clothed with short spreading 

 hair. 



Low country, in moist and dry regions ; very common. Var. /3, 

 Hantane. Fl. July, August; yellow. 

 Also in Peninsular India and Java. 



C. pumila, L., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. I have seen no 

 specimens. It appears to differ from C. Kleinii principally in having 

 5 stamens instead of 10. 



12. C. mimosoides, L. Sp. PI. 379 (1753). Bin-siyambala, S. 



Herm. Mus. 18. Burm. Thes. 160. Fl. Zeyl. n. 154. Moon Cat. 2>3- 

 C. angnstissima, Lam., W. and A. Prod. 292. Thw. Enum. 96. C. P. 

 1 5 10. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 266. 



Annual but often woody at base, usually erect, 2-3 ft. high, 

 with long ascending stiff pilose branches ; l.-rachis 2^-3 in., 

 very slender, curved, glabrous or hairy, with a flat, sessile 

 gland between the lflts. of the basal pair, stip. linear, setaceous, 

 persistent ; lflts. minute, \ in., sessile, very crowded and over- 

 lapping, 60-100 ^30-50 pair) or more, linear, very unequal- 

 sided, glabrous or somewhat ciliate ; ft on slender hairy ped. 

 over \ in. long and with 2 small bracts beneath fl., 2 or 3 

 together in axils ; sep. acute, pilose ; pod 2-2^ in. by \ in. 

 wide, linear, slightly curved, sparingly pilose, about 20-seeded, 

 slightly constricted at the partitions. 



Var. (3, auricoma, Grah. (sp.). Var. villosula, Thw. 1. c. 96. C. P. 

 3603- 



Whole plant sparingly covered with spreading yellow hair; 

 lflts. larger, aristate. 



Var. 7, Wallichiana, Baker. C. Wallichia?ta, DC, Thw. Enum. 

 6. C. P. 2786. 



