390 LEGUMINOSH. [ Ormocarpum. 
14. D, retroflexum, DC.; H.f. Ind. Fi. ii. 170—A spreading 
shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, all softer parts more or less silvery silk- 
hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, subulate-acuminate, striate, 
sparingly pilose outside, up to 4 in. long; stipulets subulate, 2-3 
in. long; leaves pinnately 3- or more usually 1-foliolate, on an 
appressed pilose petiole 4-3 in. long; leaflets of the compound 
leaves more obovate, of the simple ones almost orbicular, rounded 
or almost retuse with a mucro, entire, 1-14 in. long, chartaceous, 
glabrous above, beneath densely silvery appressed pilose; flowers 
small, purple, on filiform about 3 lin. long glabrous or nearly glabrous 
reflexed pedicels, forming short sessile or almost sessile appress 
pilose or pubescent racemes in the axils of the leaves and at the end 
of axillary branchlets ; bracts ovate-acuminate, cuspidate, pilose- 
fringed, very deciduous ; calyx pilose, about a line long, the lobes 
lanceolate-acuminate ; corolla glabrous, about 2 lin. long; pods linear- , 
oblong, minutely puberulous or glabrous, ciliate on the margins, 
y net-veined, 3-5-jointed, the articles about 2 lin. long or some- - 
what shorter, straight on the outer, rounded on the inner suture. 
Has.—Tenasserim. 
ORMOCARPUM, P. B. 
Calyx-tube bell-shaped, the upper teeth deltoid, the 3 lower 
lanceolate. Standard broad; keel much incurve 
Stamens united into 2 separate sheaths, the anthers uniform. Ovary 
few-ovuled ; style filiform, inflexed, with a minute terminal stigma. 
Pod jointed, the joints turgid, indehiscent, glabrous or glandular-muri- 
cate, the basal one seedless.—Shrubs, with unpaired-pinnate leaves ; 
stipules and bracts persistent, stipellets none. Flowers racemose. 
1. 0. sennoides, DC. ; H.f. Ind. Fl. ii. 152.—An evergreen shrub, 
the young branchlets'sticky-hairy ; leaves unpaired-pinnate, 2-3 in. 
' long, the rachis filiform, viscid-hairy ; leaflets in 4-6 pairs with an 
odd one, very shortly petioluled, alternate, obovate or obovate-oblong, 
retuse, $-} In. long, membranous, glabrous; flowers long-pedicelled, 
middling-sized, yellow, in poor lax glandular-pubescent racemes in 
the axils of the leaves ; calyx about 3 lin. long, sparingly viscid-hairy 
or almost glabrous ; corolla 4 lin. long; pods moniliform-jointed, 
glandular-muricate, longitudinally furrowed, the joints lanceolate 
to linear-lanceolate, narrowed at both ends, $-3 in. long. 
Has.—Adjoining provinces of Siam. 
sy oo. Standard always inside in bud. 
CASSIA, L. 
< pals 5, somewhat unequal, much imbricate, the outer ones 
d, not beaked. 
united at the base. Petals 5, spreading, near! 
