1897.] D. Pram — Some additional Legutniuosse. 477 



12. Cassia Montana Heyne. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — Senna glauca Roxb. Fl. hid. ii. 351. 



13. Cassia timoriensis DC. 



Add to synonyms of F. B. I. : — C. xantbocoma Miq. Anal. Ind. i. 10. 



Add to localities: — Western India; Kanara, Talbot! Malay 

 Peninsula; Kedah, Curtis! Perak ; Kunstler ! Scortechini ! 



14 Cassia glauca Lamk. 

 No collector has ever sent to Calcutta a specimen that could be said to accord 

 with the description of C. fastigiata Vahl, reduced here in the F. B. I. Perhaps, as 

 Wight and Arnott suggest, Vahl may have made some mistake as to the number of 

 glands. In any case Vahl's description is such that if C. fastigiata has to be reduced 

 to C. glauca, it is under var. sujfruticosa and not under the typical C. glauca that it 

 must be placed. 



18. Cassia mimosoides Linn. 



Var. 1. dimidiata is 0. dimidiata Roxb., a very distinct species with 5 stamens 

 of which not infrequently the uppermost is smaller than the others and is sometimes 

 even replaced by a staminode. 



Var. 2. Wallichiana as to citation consists of two very distinct plants, both of 

 which, as it happens, are mixed under Wall. Cat. 5320. 



One of these is the same plant as C. myriophylla Wall. Cat. 5326 — and is no 

 doubt a mere variety of C. mimosoides distinguishable, with difficulty in many cases, 

 by its rather longer leaflets. Like the type it has small flowers with apparently 

 always 10 stamens and has the petiolar gland deeply embedded in the leaf stalk. 



The other is the plant described by Mr. Baker as var. Wallichiana, easily dis- 

 tinguished by its larger flowers : in this plant often only nine, sometimes only seven, 

 of the stamens are perfect and the petiolar gland, though not stalked, protrudes dis- 

 tinctly above the upper surface of the leaf-stalk. The best name for the species is 

 C. Leschenaultiana DC. 



Var. 3. auricoma is only a more hirsute condition of the preceding. It is 

 equivalent to G. Macrsei, but it should not be separated as more than a variety from 

 C. Leschenaultiana. 



19. Cassia nigricans Vahl. Symb. i. 30; gland of petiole sessile 

 obscure, stamens 10, all perfect or 1-3 rudimentary, seeds 7-11. DC. 

 Prodr. ii. 498; Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. ii. 280. C. micrantha Guill. 8f 

 Terr. PI. Seneg. i. 262. 



Western India ; N. Canara, Stocks ! Talbot ! Woodrow ! 



An undershrub or shrub sometimes 5 feet high, sparsely pilose. Leaves dis- 

 tichous 2-4 in. long, with an obscure sessile gland below the lowest of the 8-18 pairs 

 of oval-oblong obtuse mucronate leaflets "5-1 in. long. Stipules persistent lanceolate- 

 subulate. Flowers small ^S-ZS in. across, solitary or 2-5 together in short supra- 

 axillary pedicels. Sepals '2 in long, outer acute, inner obtuse, apiculate. Pods 

 erect nearly straight, flat, dehiscent, shortly pubescent, 7-11-seeded ; fruiting pedicels 

 stout, *15 in. long. 



This species is said by Talbot to be common in North Canara. It is most like 

 0. mimosoides var. Wallichiana but is readily recognised by its large leaflets, which 

 dry black, and by its smaller flowers and fewer-seeded pods. 



