81 



racemes terminal, long lax drooping; flowers yellow, showy; 

 legumes cylindric-pendulous, smooth. Common. Native name 

 " Bawa." Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, p 333 ; C rhombifolia? Roxb. loc. cit. 

 334. Called also " Gurmala" ; the pulp is a safe purgative. 



2. SoPHORA, Linn.sp p 542. — Annual, erect-branched, glabrous ; 

 leaflets 6 to 12 pair, lanceolate acute, with a clavate gland near 

 the base of the petiole; racemes terminal or axillary, and few- 

 flowered; legumes long linear turgid, glabrous, many-seeded; 

 sutures keeled. A common weed. DC. Prorf. 2, 492 ; C purpurea, 

 DC. loc. cit. 497; C torosa, DC. loc. cit. 491 ; C coromandeliana, 

 DC. loc. cit. 492 ;' Syn. Senna sophera, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 347 ; 

 S purpurea, Roxb. loc. cit. 342 ; S esculenta, Roxb. 346. 



3. Senna, Swartz. — Perennial, herbaceous, diffuse; leaflets 4 

 to 6 pair, obovate-obtuse mucronate glabrous ; racemes axillary 

 few-flowered, much shorter than the leaves ; legumes lunate broad, 

 thin obtuse; valves crested at the seeds. Guzerat, Burn; Sind, 

 plentiful. Syn. C obovata, Collad. ; C obtusa, Roxb. Hort. Bengal, 

 31 ; S obtusa, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 344 ; C burmanni, Wight in Madras 

 Jour. 1837. Deccan; common in Beemthuree District east, also 

 Southern Maratha Country. 



4. Montana, Heyne in Roth. nov. sp. p 214. — A shrub or 

 small tree ; leaflets 10 to 12 pair, oval oblong obtuse, pointed with 

 a deciduous bristle, glabrous on both sides when old, but all the 

 young parts are covered with a fulvous pubescence ; peduncles 

 glabrous, many-flowered, axillary, or forming a large terminal 

 panicle; flowers long-pedicelled, rather small; legumes linear 

 straight, thin, glabrous and shining, when ripe hard and woody. 

 At Virdee and on the Chorla Ghaut. DC. Prod. 2, 499 ; C 

 setigera, DC. loc. cit. ; Senna glauca, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 351. 



5. AuEicuLATA, Linn. sp. 542. — A small shrub ; leaflets 8 to 

 12 pair, oval-obtuse or retuse, mucronate; stipides large, obliquely 

 cordate, acute; racemes axillary, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 many-flowered ; flowers showy, yellow ; legumes thin, compressed, 

 straight. Very common in Guzerat and in the Deccan. DC. Prod. 

 2, 496; Syn. Senna auriculata, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 349. The bark is 

 much used for tanning leather. Native names " Turwar," " Aroul." 



6. OcciDENTALis, Linn. sp. 539. — An annual, erect-branched, 

 glabrous ; leaflets 3 to 5 pair, ovate-lanceolate, very acute ; flowers 

 longish pedicelled, upper ones forming a terminal raceme ; legumes 

 long, nearly cylindric, slightly compressed. A common weed. 

 This, as well as the following, has a heavy, sickening smell. DC. 

 Prod. 2, 497 ; Syn. Senna occidentalis, Roxb. Fl Ind. ii, 343. 



7. ToEA, Linn. sp. 638. — Annual, with spreading branches ; 

 leaflets 2 to 3 pair, cuneate obovate obtuse ; flowers long-pedicelled ; 

 upper ones forming a short terminal raceme ; legumes very long, 



11 c 



