436 BENGAL PLANTS. (Cassia, 
disk-lined tube. Petals 5, imbricate, spreading, subequal or the 
lower larger, the upper inmost in bud. Stamens 10, all 
or swollen. Fruit a terete, woody lomentum, septate within, 
a flattened pod, woody, coriaceous or membranous, and usually 
ally winged 
externally. Seeds transverse, rarely longitudinal, horizontally or 
vertically compressed, occasionally subtetragonous, albuminous. 
*Sepals eta, obtuse 437] 
Pods indehiscent, ae terete; stamens 10, all fertile, the 3-2 lowest 
larger than the rest; trees: Seidl 
Leaflets 4-8 pairs, large ; x oweg yellow, in long racemes; gic 
deciduous, minute veel : 
Leaflets 6-12 pairs, medium : ; flowers pink, in short eorymbs bracts 
Targe, pereitbent 8 oi ooo oeceg cides sc 
de 
c 
Pods dehiscent, compressed, rarely (C. bicapsularis) turgid and sw 
terete :— 
— 10, all perfect ; anthers subequal ; a shrub.......-+++ ia . 
Stamens only 7 perfect :— 
}Leaf-rachis fwthes with glands :—[p. 437 : 
Leaves with one large gland near base of eee petiole :— 
eaflets nl ovate-oblong ; pods flattened, im ia 
between the see occide pee s 
Leaflets 6-12- cae oblong-lanceolate ; pods slightly : 
not impressed = ween the seeds :-— 
Branches préeh 2.3.00 sk kk ae Sophera. 
red. 
Branches rank. centots smaller...Sophera var. purpu" 
Leaves with one re glands on the main-rachis, 
e 
Stipules large, foliaceous, persistent; a tall ae 
Stipules narrow, caducous :— terete. 
{Stamens very unequal; pod thick, net 
seeds heads leaflets obtuse, 3—4-jugate ; a shru 
