166 XXXI. LEGUMINOS^. [Cassia. 



4. C. angustifolia, Vahl. — Syn. C. lanceolata, Forsk. ; Eoyle 111. t. 37. 

 Senna officinalis, Gaertn. ; Eoxk Fl. Ind. ii. 346. Vein. Sanna maJcki, 

 Pb. 



A bushy herbaceous plant. Leaflets 5-8 pair, narrow ovate-lanceolate, 

 stipules subulate, spreading or reflexed. Eacemes exceeding the subtend- 

 ing leaf. Pod broadly oblong, slightly curved, rounded at the extremity, 

 the valves chartaceous, glabrous, smdoth, without appendages. 



Sindh, Guzerat, South India, cultivated in the N.W. Provinces. 



5. 0. holosericea, Fresenius ; Oliver Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 278. 



A small shrub. Leaflets oblong, 5-8 pair, closely velvety pubescent 

 above and beneath ) stipules subulate, spreading, somewhat rigid. Ea- 

 cemes erect, shorter than leaves. Pod flat, broadly falcate-oblong, rounded 

 at the extremity ; valves thinly chartaceous, pubescent, without append- 

 ages. 



Abyssinia, Nubia, Arabia, Aden, Sindh. 



Ceratonia Siliqua, hum., the Garob tree (Algaroha), is indigenous iu Spain 

 and Algeria, the eastern part of the Mediterranean region, and iu Syria ; its flat 

 pods, full of sweet, nutritious pulp, axe a common article of food in the Medi- 

 terranean for man, horses, pigs, and cattle, and axe imported into the Panjab 

 under the name of KhamUb nubti. A slow-growing evergreen tree, with 

 heavy wood, excellent as fuel, and valued for cabinet-work, has great powers of 

 reproduction, and is satisfied with a scanty supply of moisture. It has been 

 grown in the Panjab, and may prove a valuable introduction. Its characters 

 are somewhat anomalous. Abruptly pinnate leaves, small polygamous or 

 dioecious flowers, without petals, with 5 stamens, versatile anthers, and a broad 

 disc surrounding the ovary. The structure of the seed, with tMck, flat cotyle- i 

 dons, enclosed in a fleshy albumen, brings it near the genus Cassia. 



8. SABACA, Linn. 

 Unarmed trees, with abruptly pinnate leaves, and small, caducous 

 stipules. Flowers yellow or red, in short panicles. Calyx-tube long, 

 funnel-shaped, lined with the disc, limb cleft into 4 petaloid, ovate, nearly 

 equal segments, imbricate in bud. Petals wanting. Stamens 3-9, free ; 

 anthers oblong, dehiscing longitudinally, on long filaments. Ovary stipi- 

 tate, the stalk adnate to the calyx-tube ; style filiform ; stigma terminal, 

 obtuse. Pod oblong, coriaceous or woody, 2-valved. Seeds without 

 albumen. 



1. S. indica, Linn. ; Bedd. FL Sylv. t. 57.— Syn. Joneda Asoca, Eoxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ii. 218 ; W. & A. Prodr. 284 ; Wight Ic. t. 206. Sans. Asoha, 

 vanjula. Vern. Asok, AsoJca (Jassundi, Bombay). 

 . Glabrous, leaves 12 in. long, drooping and coloured when young. 

 Leaflets opposite, 4-6 pair, lanceolate, coriaceous, smooth, shining, 3-9 in. 

 long. Stipules intrapetiolar, oblong, striate. Flowers in corymbose 

 panicles, terminal, or at the end of short lateral branches, with numerous 

 ovate, ciHate, coloured bracts, 2 at the base of the calyx persistent, the 

 others at the ramifications of the panicle deciduous. Peduncles and 

 pedicels coloured, flowers orange on expanding, .gradually changing to 



