1897.] G. King ^ Materials for a Fkn a of ike Malayan Pe^^insuhi. 159 
VAR. jS. Senfm Tm-a Roxb. Flor. lad. II, 3i0. Eutnph* Herb. Amboio, 
y, t, 97, f, 3; Rbeede, Hurt. Malab IT, t. 53. 
Andauaks; very coramon tlironf^fmut the Settlement. Ppjrak ; 
Kwala Dipongj Scortechini 1750! Dibtrib. A wide-spread weed in 
S.-E. Ania- 
Thia 18 Bometimes epofeen of as cosmopolitan in the tropica and poaBibly it hs^a 
now Hpcomo iotroiliiced in tho New VVorld. But if so, it is not conitnon there and 
the writer has never aeen an Ameriofin epflcinien. 
6. Cassia OBTUaiPOr,iA Linn. Sp, PI, 377. An amuial bland lierb 
or nndorshrub 2-7 feet lii^h. Leaves equally pinnate^ distinctly petioled 
3-4 in. long; leaflets 3 pairs opposite, membranoas, green, obovate- 
oblon^, uppermost leaflets 2 iu, iongy 1 in. wide, lowefifc pair 1-1-25 in. 
lo;ig, 7b in, wide, apex broadly equally deltoid, hmo elij^litly obliqucdy 
rounded, glabrous or puberulous on both sui'faceB, lateral nerves 8-10 
pnirs, obliqae straight faint on both Biirfaces, petiolales under "l iu. pTib- 
erulons ns is the rachis which is deeply grooved above and is furuislrod 
with a long conical gland between the lowest psiir of leaflets; atipnles 
linear "75 in. long, caducous. Flowers usually in sabsessilo pairs in axils 
of the leaves the upper crowded, their common peduncle oven in fruit not 
exceed i us? '15 in. usually sliorter, tlio pedicels even in flower 1-1 "25 in. 
long. CaJijx 5-partite to tbe base, segments green ovato-acufe gkbroas, 
spreading, *25 in. .long. Ft^tals 5 subequal, spreading, bright-yellow, "5 
iu. loug, 35 in, wide, oblong-obtuse, the standard truncate. Stamens 7 
( the 3 upper replaced by ataminodes) sabcqual, anthers brown. Pod 
8-10 in. long, '2 in, wide, sub-terete, obliquely septate, the valves 
glabrous, membranous, distinctly transversely reticulated, sutures broad, 
Seeh 30-35, rhombohedral, '2 in. long, *15 in. thick, brown shining. 
Linn. Sp. PI. ed. II, 539 as to the plant bat excl. the ref. to Dillenuis 
and to Rnmphuts ; DC. Piodr. 11, 493 ; CoUad. Hist. Cass. 95. 0. toroides 
Roxb. Hort. Beng'. 31. 0. humilis Goliad. Hist. Cass. 96. C. Tofa var, 
^. Lirm. Sp. PI. 376. C. Tora vatc. ^, W. & A. -Prodr. 291 excl. refer- 
encee to Rheede and to Ln'ntarch ; Miq Flor. Tnd. Bat. I, 95, 0. Tora Bak. 
in Flor. Lid. Bat. II, 263 iu pai t, not of Linn. 0. ohtudfoHa vab. j3. Miq, 
Flor, Ind, Bat, I, 96, not vab. a. Senna toroides Roxb. Fl. Ind. ll, 340. 
SiNOAi'OBE ; common, TJnlhtt 102 ! Kunsthr 124 ! Distiub. Native 
in Tropical America ; now inti-oduced and, hero and there, fairly coni- 
TOou in South-Bastern Asia. 
Dr. Roxbiirgli was at some pains to point onfc bow difForont this appcics is from 
0. Tnra. The eonfnaion of indontlfication originatiad with Lttinmua himself and has 
been perpfifnfttfd owing to the fondnoas that niany autUora have for books and names 
as compnred with plants and facts, 
7. Cassia hirsota Linn, Sp. PI. 378, A diffuse tomentose under- 
