262 L. LEGtTMiNOS*. (J. G. Baker.) [<7ama. 



branches, dense, under half a foot long ; braets silky, lanceolate, persistent ; peddcela 

 twice the length of the flower, lower deflexed. SepcUs downy, ^-J in. Petals ob- 

 long, acute, |-1 in. deep. Pod a ft. long, J in. thick. 



3. C. margriiiata, So.rb. BoH. Beng. 31 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 338 ; branchlets 

 densely tomentose, leaflets 30-40 small obtuse, racemes short suhcorymbose, 

 bracts persistent, petals small reddish not veined. 0. Eoxburghii, DC. Prodvi 

 ii. 489 ; Wall. Cat. 5308 ; JT. 8f A. Prodr. 286 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 180 ; Wight 

 lUust. t. 83. 



Ceyion and Western PeninsttlA. 



Branches slender, sulcate. Leaves 4-1 ft. long ; leaflets oblong, deeply emarginate, 

 with a distinct mucro, 1-lJ in. long, rigidly subcoriaceous, rery oblique, strongly 

 Teined, persistently grey-downy beneath. Flowers in copious short axillary racemes 

 and terminal panicles; bracts ovate-cuspidate; pedicels under 1 in. long. — Mowers 

 and pod like that of C. nodosa, but much smaller. 



4. C. reni^era, Wall. Cat. 5307; branches densely pubescent, leaflets 

 SO-40 moderately small obtuse S-4 times as long; as broad, flowers unknown. 

 Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 518 ; JKurz in Jown. Asiat. Soc. Beng. xliii 

 2,71. 



BiRMA. ; Taong-dong mountains and banks of the Irrawaddi, Wallioh. 



Closely allied to G. marginata. Leaves 1 ft. long ; leaflets close, nearly ses- 

 sile, ligulate-oblong, 1^2 in. long, broadly rounded at both ends, slightly oblique, 

 rigidly coriaceous, finely grey-downy below; stipules oblong, cuspidate, large, mem- 

 branous, persistent, fastened above the base. Pod 1 foot long, cylindrical, indehiscent, 

 glabrous. 



Sttbgest. 2. Senna (Boxb. ex parte, as a genus). 8epals obtuse. Perfect 

 stamens 7, the anthers subequal or those of the 2-3 lowest larger than the 

 others ; three posterior filaments without anthers. Pods compressed, rarely 

 terete, the seede usually flattened parallel with the valves. — Some trees, some 

 shrubby herbs. 



Leaf with a single large gland placed jvst above the base of the common 



5. C. oecidentalls, Linn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 497; leaflets 6-10 ovate- 

 oblong. 'Boxb. Sort. Beng. 31 ; W.8f A. Prodr. 290 ; Bot. Reg. t. 83 ; Dalz. 

 ^ Cribs. Bomb. Fl. 81. Senna occidentalis, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 343. 0. foetida, 

 Pei-s. Syn. i. 457. 0. Sophera, WaU. Cat. 5317, ex parte. 



Scattered from the Himalayas, to Ceylon, probably introduced. — Disteib. Cos- 

 mopolitan in the tropicsi 



A diffuse subglabrous undershrub, a few feet high, usually only of annual dura- 

 tion. Lewoes \ ft. long ; leaflets glaucous, foetid, acuminate, 1-3 in. long, glabrous or 

 finely pubescent. Bacemes short-peduncled, few-flowered, corymbose, axillary and 

 forming a terminal panicle ; bracts thin, ovate-acuminate, caducous ; pedicels spreading, 

 i-f in. Sepals obtuse, glabrous, J-1 in. Petals | in. pale lilac, conspicuously veined. 

 Pod 4-5 in. by J in., rather recurved, glabrous, subcompressed, distinctly torulose. 

 Seeds 15-30. 



6. C. Sophera, lAnn.; DC. Prodr. ii. 492; leaflets 12-24 oblong-lanceo- 

 late. Boxb. Hm-t. Beng. 31 ; Wall. Cat. 5317, ex parte ; W. §■ A. Prodr. 287 ; 

 Bah. S/- Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 81. Senna Sophera, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 347, S. escu- 

 lenta, Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 346. Cassia esculenta, Eo.rb. Sort. Beng. 31. 0. chi- 

 neusis, Jacq. Ic. t. 73. 0. frutescens, Mill. IHct. No. 2. 0. coromandeliana, 

 Jacq. Fragm.. 67, t. \W.—Bheede Hort. Mai. ii. jt. 52. 



