158 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



•5-6 in. long. Seeds biseriafce, 20-30, oval, '25 in. long, "15 in. wide, 

 very thin, testa dark-brown shining. DO. Prodr. IT, 495 ; Wall. Cat. 



5312; W. & A. Prodr. 269; Bedd. Flor. Sylvat. 91; Miq. Flor. Ind. 



Bat. I, 96; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 265. C. surattensis Burai. Flor. 



Ind. 97. C. arborescens Valil. Symb. Ill, 56 ; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31. 



Senna arborescens Roxb. Flor. Ind. II, 345. 



Penang ; Kunstler 1473 ! Curtis ! Malacca ; cultivated, Maingay 



595 ! Perak ; Simpang, Wray 2051 ! Distrib. S.-E. Asia generally, but 



often, perhaps usually cultivated. 



§ 3. Senna Bth. & Hk. f. Sepals obtuse, perfect stamens 7, 



the 3 uppermost reduced to staminodes, the remainder subequal or the 



lowest 2-3 w 7 ith longer filaments and larger anthers than the rest. Pods 



compressed, rarely subterete, usually dehiscent, the dissepiments between 



the seeds membranous. 



5. Cassia Tora Linn. Sp. PI. 376. An annual foetid herb or 



undershrub 2-3 feet high. Leaves equally pinnate, distinctly petioled, 



3-4 in. long; leaflets 3 pairs opposite, membranous, glaucous, obovate- 



oblong, uppermost leaflets 2 in. long 1 in. wide, lowest pair 1-1 "25 in. 

 long '75 in. wide, apex equally acute, base slightly obliquely rounded, 

 glabrous or puberulous on both surfaces, lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, 

 oblique straight rather pronounced beneath, petioluies "1 in. long, 

 puberulous as is the rachis which is deeply grooved above and fur- 

 nished with a long conical gland between each of the two lowest 

 pairs of leaflets ; stipules linear *75 in. long, caducous. Flotvers 

 usually in subsessile pairs in axils of the leaves the upper crowded, 

 their common peduncle even in fruit not exceeding # 15 in., usually 

 shorter, the pedicels even in fruit not exceeding "35 in. Calyx 5-partite 

 to base, segments green ovate-acute glabrous spreading, *2 in. long. 

 Petals 5 subequal, spreading, pale-yellow, '3 in. long. 2 in. wide, oblong- 

 obtuse, the standard retuse. Stamens 7 (the 3 upper replaced by stami- 

 nodes) subequal, anthers brown. Pod 6-8 in. long, '15 in. wide, nearly 

 tetragonous, obliquely septate, the valves puberulous membranous not 

 reticulated, sutures broad. Seeds 25-30, rhombohedral, long axis in 

 direction of pod, '15 in. long, '1 in. thick, brown, shining. Linn. Sp. 

 PI. ed. II. 538 (excl. syn. Roy. Lugd. and excl. var. /?.) ; DC. Prodr. 

 II, 493; Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31; Collad. Hist. Cass. 96 ; Wall. Cat. 

 5316; W. & A. Prodr. 290 excl. var. /?. ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bafe. I, 90, 

 excl. VAR. (3. ; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. II, 263 in part only. C. Tagera 

 Lamk. Encyc. Meth. I, 643 not of Linn. C. fcetida Salisb. Prodr. 326. 

 O. gallinaria Collad. Hist. 96. G. obtusifolia Linn. Sp. PI. ed. IT, 

 539 as to all the citations except Sloane, Hist. Jamaica, but not as to the 

 plant; Lour. Flor. Coch. Chin. 323; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 95 excl. 



