Cassia.] LEGUMINOSM. 295' 



An erect ariiniai 1-2 ft. high, clothed with grey hristly viscous hairs. 

 Leaves on long petioles ; stipules small, linear, acute, persistent ; rachis 

 with a small linear gland between the leaflets of each pair; leaflets ii, 

 memhranous, 1-2 in. long, oblong, obtuse or subactite, unequal at the- 

 base, hairy beneath. Racemes erect, few-fl(wered., narrow, equalling or 

 exceeding the leaves. Floivers very small. 5e|)a/s ^—-^ in,, lanceolate, 

 bristly. C'oroZkt reddish-yellow ; petals with long ciaws. veined. Sta- 

 mens 5, equal, allfertile, ardhers opening by slits. Pod 1-1^ in., ligulate, 

 oblique ; valves thin, beset with grey bristly hairs. Seeds b, com-- 

 pressed, dark-brown, shining. 



Abundant in Dehra Dun, Eohilkhand and IST. Oudh, also ia the Agra 

 district and in Merwara, Disteib. Throughcut India to Ceylon, 

 and everj^where in the tropics of the old world. Flowers during the 

 rainy season. The seeds have long been known as a remedy f* r ophthal- 

 mia. Eoxburgh describes the flowers of his <s. exigua as i-androus. 



9. C. pumila, Lamk. Encycl. i, 651; W,^ A. Prod. 292; F. B. I. ii, 266' 



C. prostrata, Koen. ex. Roxh. Hort. Bencj. 32; V. Sf G. Bomh. Fl. 82- 

 Senna prcstrata, lioxh. Fl. Ind. ii, 352. 



A diffuse procumbent shrub with slecder terete finely downy branches. 

 Leaves 1-2 in. long, gland at base of petiole stalked ; stipules semi- 

 lanceolate, rigid, persistent; leaflets 20-4i0, close, i-^ in. long, linear, 

 acute, rigidly coriaceous, strongly veir^ed, mucr< nate, mn:e or less 

 hairy, the midrib close tj -the upper border. Flowers usually solitary 

 in the axils of the leaves, < n very short pedicels. Sepals ^ in., acute. 

 Corolla little exserted. Stamens 5, anthers equal. Pod 1-1^ in., 

 • straight, flat, linear, tcrulose, glabrous cr nearly so, 6-12-seeded. 



Common within the area. Disteib. Throughoiit India, ascending to 

 6,000-7,000 ft. on the Himalaya ; also in the Malay Islauds and in trop. 

 Australia. Elowers during the rains. 



10. C. Kleinii. W, Sf A. Prod. 293 ; E. B. I. ii, 266. 



Suffruticose ; branches diffuse, procumbent, more or less pubescent 

 Leaf-rachis with a stalked gland bekw the lowest pair of leaflets ; 

 stipules subulate ; leafl.ers of -upper leaves 10-iO pairs, fewer on the 

 lower ones, |-i in. long, linear-oblong, unequal-sided and somewha* 

 falcate, mucronate, Flowers l-o in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels 

 downy, bracteate. Petals obovate, little exserted. Stamei^is 10, alternately 

 longer and shorter. Pod l|-2 in. long, flat, somewhat falcate, black, gla- 

 brescent. Seeds lU-15. 



Merwara (Duthie). Disteib. S. India and in Ceylon, also in Java, 



11. C. dimidiata, Pi.oxh. Hort. Beng. 32 ; Fl. Ind, ii, 352 ; Prain in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. L.xYl, part ii, 477. Senna dimidiata, Buch.-Ham. in Boxi. 

 Fl,Ind.ii,352. 



A slender erect annual or biennial up to 3 ft, high, young parts puberulcus* 

 Leaves 2-3 in, long ; rachis with a single rather large sessile gland below 

 the lowest pair of leaflets ; stipules subulate ; leaflets 30 pairs, semi- 

 lanceolate, glabrous. Flowers small, 3-4 together in the leaf -axils, on a- 



