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Cominon in all parts of India. This is as much a native of the 
East as of the West Indies. It is found in almost every soil and 
particularly in the neighbourhood of towns and villages among rub- 
bish. The leaves when bruised exhale a very disagreéable odour, 
(W. & A.) 
(18) G Tora. (Linn) 
Ident. W.% A. prod. I. p. 290. ; 
Syn. C. obtusifolia, Burm.—C. Gallinaria, Collard.—Senha 
Tora, Roxb. fl. Ind. 11. p. 340.—S. toroides, Rowzb. J. ¢. p. 341. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. V. t. 97, f. 2.—Rheede Mal. II. ts 53. 
Spec. CoHar. Annual, with spreading branches: leaflets 3 pair, 
with a gland between the 1-2 lower pair, cuneate-obovate, obtuse, 
glabrous of pubescent beneath: stipules subulate, nearly half the 
‘length of the petiole, deciduous: upper petal obcordate; seven 
lower anthers about equal and fertile : flowers yellow, long-pedice}- 
led, the upper ones forming a short terminal raceme, the lower ones 
1-2 together on a short axillary peduncle: legumes very long, 
sharp-pointed, 4-sided, many-seeded, each suture 2-grooved, 
Peninsula. Flowering nearly all the year, 
(14) C. Azsus. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. ps 291,—Dec. prod. 1J. p. 500, 
Syn. Senna Absus, Roxb. fl Ind. II. p. 340. 
Engrav. Burm. Zeyl. t. 97.—Pluk. t. 60. f. 1. 
Spec. Cuar. Biennial, clammy all over except the leaves: 
leaves long-petioled: leaflets 2 pair, obovate, obtuse, glabrous, or 
slightly hairy beneath: stamens 4, all fertile; lower flowers axil« 
lary, solitary, upper ones forming a short raceme: pedicels short, 
with a bract at their base, and small bracteoles about the middle: 
legume nearly straight, obliquely pointed, much compressed; sprink~ 
led with rigid hairs, few-seeded : flowers small, yellow. 
Coromandel. Monghyr mountains. Flowering all the year. 
(15) C. Waxuicniana. (Dec.) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 292.—Dee. prod. II. p. 505. 
Spec. Cuar. Suffruticose, branched: branches pubescent of 
hirsute when young: leaflets 20-50 pair, sometimés only 9-10 pair 
fear the root, with a gland below the lowest pair, linear-oblong, 
very unequal-sided, mucronate, glabrous: stipules lanceolate-subit~ 
late, obliquely cordate at the base: stamens 10, alternately shorter 
flowers supra-axillary, solitary or in pairs, small, yellow: pedicele 
in fruit 34 times longer than the petioles: legumes flat, linear, 
