394 “ LEGUMINOSE. [ Cassia. 
long, long-persistent ; calyx glabrous or nearly so, the sepals —— 
petals obovate-rounded, shortly clawed, nearly an inch long; 
glabrous ; ovary shortly appressed pubesoent ; pods brown, 2- 3 i 
long, linear-obi ong, at base narrow a short stalk, tenminating 
in a long filiform style, very flat, auoetly. a rather thinly pubescent, 
2-valved, the valves chartaceous, somewhat torose. 
Has.—Apparently frequent in the Irrawaddi valley of Ava.—FI. Sept.-Febr. 
a uca, Lamk; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 91.—A large branchy 
ist, 4-6 ft. high, the younger parts more or less appressed 
ubescent or siseiy almost glabrous ; leaves abruptly pinnate, 3-1 ft. 
long, the rachis more or less silky pubescent ; leaflets in 4-10 pairs, 
on very short ore te — from oblong to oval-oblong, 
bluntish or rounded, 4 to 2 in. long, entire, membranous, glab- 
rous above, beneath more or 1a ‘glaucous and usually also more or 
less appressed pubescent or rarely quite glabrous ; flowers middling- 
sized, yellow, on filiform puberulous up to an inch long pedicels, 
forming puberulous corymb-like racemes in the axils of the leaves 
or collected at the end of the branchlets ; bracts small, lanceolate, 
acuminate, long-persistent ; calyx res or nearly wit mer 
blunt and terminated with a stylose ccas 2-4 in. long, many- 
seeded, the valves black, thin coriaceous, transversely. torulose, 
smooth ; seeds flat, oblong, glossy brown. 
=. AB ot unfrequent in the dry forests, especially along the sides of ee, 
of Hag sad B Senge also much planted round khyoungs in Pegu, ete.—FL Fr. 
. BAUHINIA, L. 
_ Sepals united at the base into a short or long disk-bearing tube, 
the free part separating into 5 or fewer valvate or induplicate 
lobes. Putas 5, inserted at the summit of the tube, usually clawed 
and more or less unequal. Stamens 10, free, either all perfect or 
some reduced to small staminodes. Ovary stalked (the stalk adnate 
to the one side of the calyx-tube) with several ovules ; style usually 
filiform rarely short with a capitate broad or oblique pee 
Pod linear or oblong, compressed, 2-valved. Seeds com- 
pressed. Albumen usually thin.—Trees or woody climbers, rarely 
rnin me seh either bifoliolate leaves or more usually the 2 
into o one entire or 2-lobed palmately nerved blade. 
» in terminal or rarely axillary of | 
s collected in a panicle. 
