392 LEGUMINOS#. [ Cassia. 
B.—Frequent all over Burma and the adjacent provinces, in the leaf- 
Has 
' shedding forests, especially in the savannah and lower mixed forests.—Fl. 
Apr. ; Fr. 255 —L—SS.= ow All. SiS. 
Remarxs.—Wood pale reddish brown, the heart-wood dark-brown, rather 
heavy, bares Rilsoos, but rather close oe oe elastic, but soon attacked 
by xylophages if not seasoned. ‘57 ey ie s, axles of carts, plough- 
shares, rice-pounders, etc. Bark good se fecdings 
2. C, nodosa, Ham.—@noo0-thein.—A large evergreen tree, the 
very young shoots shortly pubescent ; leaves abruptly pinnate, 4 to 
1 ft. long, the rachis shortly puberulous ; leaflets in 6-12 pairs, on 
rather acute te, about an ine ‘ch long ; Haments glabrous, the 3 longer 
ones spherically thickened at the middle ; ovary slightly villous ; 
cylindrical, 1-14 ft. long, at base contracted in a short stalk, 
-seeded. 
- smooth, chambered within, many- 
Has. -—Evergreen tropical forests of _Martaban tome to Upper Tenasserim, 
“eae also Chitt ttagong. —Fi. Apr. ; Fr. C. 8.— 
8. C. renigera, Wall.—Gnoo-shway—A ‘Teaf-shedding tree (30 
Ap Fat 5+3—5), the younger parts all softly and shortly 
bescent ; leaves abruptly pinnate, 4-1 ft. long, _— — 
allover ; ’ stipules large, lunate-renitorm, deciduo leafle 
rs, very shortly petioluled or rather almost sonia, ellipti- 
cally oboe to oblong, blunt or retuse with a minute mucro, 3-13 
in. long, membranous, softly and shortly pubescent; flowers large 
and showy, of a rich pink colour, on pubescent 1- i in. long pedi- 
cels, forming very short softly pubescent densely bracted racemes 
solitary or by pairs above the scars of the fallen leaves; bracts 
ees —Maizalee.—An evergreen or often leaf- 
‘< si Oo (50-—60—10—35 +36), remaining stunted on im- 
rme bstrata, the young branchlets minutely downy; bark 
rather smooth, grey or blackish. brown, slightly longitudinally fis- 
= “sured, eettins leaves abruptly pinnate, bl ft. long, the young 
= rachis my are “downy ; leaflets in 6-10 pairs, on a — 
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