292 . LEaVMllSOSM. [Cassia. 



2. C. glanca, Lain'ti. Encycl. i, 647 ; W. ^ A. Prod, 2S9 ; F. B. I ii, 265 

 (excl. syn (J. fastigiata, Vahl) ; Watt E. D.; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. hXVI.jpaH ii, 477, Senna arborescens, Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 345. 



A small tree, with gla"broTis' terete branches. Leaves 6-9 in. long ; rachis 

 slightly channelled above and furnished w:th long conical glands 

 between each cf the 2-3 lowest pairs of leaflets ; stipules falcate, nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, caducous ; leaflets 4-6 pairs, opposite, 2-1 in. long^ 

 ovate, acute, cuneate at the base, pale-green and glabrous above, very 

 glauccus and sparsely appressed-puberulous or glabrous beneath. 

 Flowers 2^ in. across, in axiliary corymbs 4 in. long ; pedicels spreading 

 glabrous ; bracts small, elliptic., glabrous, caducous. Calyx 5-partite to 

 the base ; segments orbicular, very unequal, pale-ycilow. Petals 

 about I in. lung, nearly equal, spreading, broadly ovate, obtuse, pale 

 primrose with greenish- ye Ik w veins. Stamens 10, sub-equal, tod 6-8 in. 

 long, stalked, linear, straight, flat, thin, flexible, dehiscent. Seeds 20-30,. 

 in ^ rows, thin, dark-brown, shining. 



Merwara (Duthie), Bundelkhand (Mrs. Bell). Distbib. From the foot of 

 the Himalaya t j S. India, but very often planted ; also in the Malay 

 Penins. and Islands, and in N. Australia. 



Vak. sufEruticosa, F. B. I. ii, 265. C. suffruticosa, Keen.; W. ^ A- 

 Prod. 289. C. fastigiata, Fa/ii; W ^' A. Prud. 290. Senna speciosa^ 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii, 347. -Leajiets S—9 pairs, smaller, obtuse; jiowers suna 

 pods much smaller, the latter n t more than 3-i m. long ; seeds lu i^. — 

 Dehra Dun (Waliich), Siwalik range (Royle), Bundelkhand. (Mrs. 

 Bell). DiSTBiE as of type. 



3. C. occidentalism Z^inn. )Si). PZ. 377; W. 4' A. Prod. 290; Royle 111. 

 184; D.Sf a. Bomb. Fl.81; M'. B. 1. ii, 262; Watt E. D. Seana occi- 

 dentalism Roxb. ti. Ind. ii, 343.— Vern. Kasuada, chakwida. (Coffee 

 Senna, or Negro coffee.) 



A diffuse subglabrous undershrub, 2-5 ft. high, often only of annual 

 gr.'Wth. Leaves 6-^ in. long, petiole witn a single gland at the base ; 

 Leajiets 3-5 pairs, opposite, shurtly stalked, 1-3 in. long, ovate-oblong or 

 lanceolate, acuminate, rounded at the base, glaucous, glabr-^us above^ 

 finely pubescent beneath, icetid. Floivers in axillary shott-peduncled 

 corymbs arranged in a terminal panicle ; bracts h in. long, uvate-acu- 

 minate, white tinged with pink, caducous. Catyx o-partite to the base^ 

 lobes obtuse, fetais % in., yellow faintly veined with orange, fertile 

 stamens 7, the 3 upper reduced to stammodes, tha o lower longer and 

 with larger anthers than th-se of the lateral pairs, anthers brown, tod 

 4-> m. l.ng, slightly falcate, compressed, transversely septate, torulose. 

 Seeds vQ-ou, pale- brown. 



Abundant within the area on roadsides and in waste ground. Disteib, 

 Throughout India, extending t - Ceylon, ourma and the Malay Penms.; 

 cosmop.litan in the tropics. Probably originally introduced tr.m 

 America Flowers during the rains. The leaves, root and seeds are 

 medicinal. The seeds after being roasted and ground are used in. 

 Trop. Africa and the Mauritius as a substitute for coffee. 



