SoPHOBA.] LEaXJUmOSM, 289 



mnch exserted ; petals equal in length, all with long claws, standard 

 broad ; heef obtuse, rarely appendaged. Stamens free, or obscurely 

 connate at the very base ; anther'^ uniform, versatile. Ovary stalked, 

 many-ovuled, style incurved, stigma capitate. Pod moniliform, suh- 

 lignose or membranous, usually indehiscent ; joints turgid, terete or 

 4-winged. — Species about 25, chiefly in tropical and subtropical regions, 

 a few temperate or alpine. 



S. mollis. K. Qrah. in Wall. Cat. 5335 ; Brand. For. Fl. 132 ; F. B. I , 

 a, 251 ; Watt E. D. Edwardsia mollis, Royle III. 188, t. 32, f. 2. 



Alow spineless shrub, with finely grey-downy branch f^s. Leaves about 6 

 in. krig ; leaflets 21-35, coriacenus, ^-f in. long, elliptic, obtuse, emargi- 

 nate, greyish-green, prominently veined, finely downy. Flowers appear- 

 ing before the leaves, arranged in short dense axillary peduncled racemes 

 which are shorter than the leaves Calyx ^-^ in., oblique, finely grey- 

 downy. Corolla about f in. lon<^, yellow. Pod 3-i in. long, moniliform, 

 4-6-seeded, glabrotis, joints with 4 distinct crustaceous wings. Seeds 

 brown, shining. 



Dehra Dun at Sahansradhara. Distbib. North-Western Frontier, Salt 

 range, and on the W. Himalaya as far east as R'nmaon ascending 

 to 4,000 ft The flowers which open in M'^rch nnd April are very showy 

 and the plant is sometimes known as the Himalayan Lahurniim. 



Suborder II.— Csesalpinieas. 



Trees or shrubs, rarely heibs. Leaves pinnate or 2-pinnate, with 

 1-many pairs of leaflets, rarely simple or 1-foliolate, usually exstipel- 

 late. Flowers irregular, or very rarely regular, usually 2-sexual. 

 Sepals 5, or 4 from the fusion of the upper two, usually imbricate, 

 rarely valvate or united in a toothed or lobed limb. Petals 5, or 

 fewer by abortion, imbricate, the upper one innermost in bud. Sta- 

 mens 1(1, or fewer by abortion, rarely indefinite, usually free. Ovary 

 free, or iinited by its stipe to the disk-bearing calyx. Seeds usually 

 ■exalbuminous. 



Leaves simply pinnate, or (in Bauhinia) 

 1-foliolate. 



Anthers basifixed, petals 5 (Tribe 

 IX., Gassier) .... 58. Cassia, 



Anthers versatile. 



Petals 5, stamens free (Teiee X., 

 Bauhinie^) . • . . 59. Batjhinia. 



Petals 3, stamens 1-adelph, 



(Teibe XI., AMHERsriE.ffi;) . 60. Tamarindus. 



