380. 
bout 2 feet in length, with transverse - partitions between the 
seeds : cells filled with yellowish pulp ; flowers large, pale pink. 
Chittagong, flowering in April and May. 
(4) C. romENTOsA. (Linn) 
- Ident, W. & A. prod. I. p. 286.—Dec. prod. HI. p. 496. 
Syn. C. multiglandulosa, Jacq. 
Engray. Jacq. Icon, Rar. I. t. 72. 
Sprc. Cuan. Large shrub: branches tomentose; leaflets 6-& 
ait, usually with a gland between each pair, linear-oblong, mucro= 
nate, a little ynequal at the base, pubescent above, tomentose be- 
neath: racemes in the upper axils as long as the leaves, forming a 
leafy corymbiform panicle: legumes long, linear, compressed, mu-. 
¢ronate, tomentose ; seed somewhat ‘kidney -shaped, horizontal. 
. Neilgherries.- ‘ 
(5) C. Sopuera. (Einn.) 
Ident. W., & A, prod. I. p. 287.—Dee. prod. I. p. 492. 
Syn. C. purpurea, Dee.—-C. torosa, Cay.—C. torulosa, Poir.— 
€, Indica, Poir.—C. Coromandeliana, Jacg.—C. Sophervides, Col- 
tad.~-Senna Sophora, Roxb. fl, Ind. Hl. p. 347.—S. purpurea, 
Roxb. 1. c. p. 342.--S. esculenta, Roxb. l.c. p. 346. 
Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. t..98.—Bot. Reg. X. t. 856.—Rheede 
Mal. Il. t. 52.—-Rumph Amb. V. t. 97. f, 1. 
_ Spec. Cyan. An erect annual ; leaflets 6-12 pair, lanceolate: or. 
oblong-lanceolate, acute, with a single clavate gland near the base. 
of the petiole: upper petal retuse: lowest anther small and sterile = 
racemes terminal, oy axillary and few-flowered: legumes long, 
linear, turgid, glabrous, many-seeded ; sutures keeled: seeds hori- 
zontal, with cellular partitions: flowers yellow, : 
Peninsula; Bengal. Assam. Flowering nearly all the year. 
The legumes when unripe and dried appear quite flat, but when, 
ripe and‘ fresh are turgid and almost eylindrical. (Wight.), The 
smell of this species is heavy and disagreeable. a 
(6), C. optusa. (Roxb.) 
Ident, W. &°A. prod. I. p. 288. 
Syn. Senna obtusa, Roxb. fi. End. YL. p. 344, 
Engray. Wight’s Icon. t. 757. 
Spec. Cuar. Perennial, herbageous, diffuse, procumbent : leaf. 
lets 4-6 palr, obtuse, mucronate, unequal-at the base, glabrous :. 
petioles without glands: stipules lanceolate-subulate, spreading, 
ersistent: racemes axillary, few-flowered, much shorter than the, 
eaves 5 pedicels ‘without bracts: legumes lunate, broad, thin, ob« 
tuse: valves protuberant and slightly angled : flowers smail, yellow.. 
