Cassia. | LEGUMINOSE. 391 
equal or the lower outer ones rather larger. Stamens usually 10, 
free, either all nearly equal and perfect, or the 2 or 3 lower ones 
larger or on longer filaments and the 3 or 4 upper ones reduced 
to small staminodes ; anthers when perfect opening in apical pores 
or in short lateral slits. Ovary with several ovules, incurved, 
tapering in a short style. Pod cylindrical or flat, ee or 
2-valved. Seeds oblong or obovate, transverse or horizon Albu- 
_ men fleshy.—Trees, shrubs, or herbs, with abruptly uae leaves. 
Flowers in axillary or terminal racemes or solitary. Bracts often 
deciduous, bractlets none. 
* Filaments of the lower 3 stamens very long and arcuate, the 
others short or imperfect. Sani terete, long, indehiscent. 
Se eds horizontal, transv 
4 oad ae destitute of bracts —s pitas a \ 
Flowers yellow : - C. fistula. 
x xX Hacemes more 0} r less erect, with pe i 
wer pale or intensely pink-col se (Longer 
rene node-like thickened at the mi erste 
Leaflets short-acuminate . . OC. nodos 
ts pubescent, retuse or blu nt ey ee 
** Perfect anthers 7 or 10, open ing by terminal pores or 
8 compressed or more or less terete, open- 
along the one or oth sutures. 
x Marc sons 
not winged. 
All full-grown fits sabadas 3 Ja - C. Siamea. 
All parts Sagoo stipules Pare aay shrub or small tree. C. Timoriensis. 
All parts pubescent; stipules late lunate- watiotoe: rather r per- 
Skea; shru -- - C. auriculata, 
Be: Pods broadly | 4-winged ; shrubby herb, " glab- 
ts large, gat . C, alata. 
; brac 
xX Perfect auuiees 10; —_— fat, often sinuate 
constricted between papi 
‘1. C, fistula, L.; Bedd. syle. Madr. 91; Reand. pie 164.— 
sp Bdge —A tree (30—50 + 10—25 + '3—6); shedding leaves 
n H.S., the very young shoots silk-hairy; bark grey, about } in. 
thie, smooth, occasionally peeling off in mealy thin flakes; cut 
, Ted ; leaves abru ptly pinnate, while very young appressed 
oer ‘ 1} ft. long, the soliele aad rachis terete ; leaflets in 4-8 
pairs, on thick 2-3 lin. long petioles, ovate to ovate-oblong, bluntish 
to bluntish acuminate, 3-5 in. long, thin py tame when full grown 
glabrous, more or less glaucescent beneath ; flowers large, yellow, on 
capillary 1}-2 in. long pedicels, forming long drooping glabrous 
slender racemes solitary or by pairs from the axils of the young leaves 
or from above the sears of the fallen ones; calyx very deciduous, 
velvety ; petals obovate-oblong, about an inch long ; filaments and 
Ovary glabrous, the longer filaments not thickened at the middle; 
pods terete, 2-3 ft. long, at base contracted in a short stalk, black, 
smooth, chambered within, many-seeded ; seeds ovoid , rather small, 
“somewhat compressed, pale chestnut-brown, glossy. 
