1897.] Q. King — Maiei-ials fur a Fhra of the Malayan Pmtnsuht. 161 
Floiv Imh But. I, 94; Bak. iu ¥loi\ Brit. Ind. II, 262. G. fmtida Pern. 
Sjnops. I, 4-57. O." Sophera Wall. Cat. 5317 L, not of Linn. Senna 
occidetdalis Roxb. Flor. liid, II, 343. 
In all the Pkovincbs, a very common weed of wnste places, DtsTRiB* 
Cosmopolitan in the trapicR but in nit probability derived originallj 
from America and only iiitrodnced in tlie Old Woi-ldi 
Mr. Baiter desoriboa the flowers as pale lilloc i this tliey BppeAr ruever to be in 
9. Cassia Sophkra Linn. Sp. PL 370, A diffuse sub- glabrous 
shrub R-10 levt high, finnual or subperennial. Leaver equally pinnate 
8-JO in. long ; leafleLs 8-12 pairs opposite, membranoiia, glaucous, lanceo- 
late with cuneate base, apex acnminate, glabrous^ 2-3 in. long "S-'TS in. 
wide; lateral veins 10-12 pairs spreading; petiolules very short 
glabrous as is tbe leaf-racliis which has a single largo conical gland 
■2--25 in. above its base. Flowers in axillary disliuctly pedunclcd few- 
fld, corymbg, bracts green o^rate-acate minute ciiducons, 'IS in. long, 
pedicels '25 in. long sparsely pubernlons spreading; in fruit reaching 
•5 in. long ascending rigid. Calyx 5-j>nrtite to base, segments green 
glabrous firmly membranous obtuse '25 in long. Petals 5 eubeqnal, 
yellow, hardly at all veined, '5 in, long^ "3 in. wide, ovate-obtnae. 
8tamens 7 (the 3 upper replaced by staminodes) the 3 lower longer 
and with larger anthei-s than the two lateral paii's, (sometimes one of 
these also reduced to a staminodc). Pad slightly falcate, turgid, 
trans vei'sely septate, satures slender, valves not depressed between the 
30-40 small seeds, 3*4 in, long, -35 in, wide, '2 in. thick. Seeds broadly 
ovate ratlier dark- brown, "24 in. long, '15 in. acroiss, '1 in. thick. DC. 
Prodr. II, 492; Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 31; Wall. Cat-. 5317 partly ; W. & A. 
Prodr. 287; Miq. Flor. Lid. Bat, I, 92; Bak. in Flor. Brit. Ind. 11, 262. 
0. e$cnlentit Koxb. Hort. Beng. 31. C. cJdnemis Jacq, Ic. t. 73. G, 
frnfescens Mill. Diet. n. 2. 0. coromandetiatia Jacq, Fragm. 67, fc. 100. 
6'is«»« Sophera Roxb. Fl. Tnd. IT, 347. 5. escnleuta Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 
846. Rnmph. Herb. Araboin. V, 28:^, t, 97, f. 1. 
Andamans ; mnch less common than 0. occidentalism Penakq ; Jide 
Baker. DiSTRiB, Originally American, now cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
This speoies ha« not been Bent by any MHlayan botaniflfc to the Calcutta 
Herbarinm. Its presence ia P^nung is however mBiitioiied by Mr. Bnkor ; the 
collector's namQ is not given. It wqb not iJr. Wallicb; Wallidi'e Mabiyan " G. 
Bvphera" (Cat. 5317 L.) ia all C, oceidenialis. It ia fltrange tliat tlwngli Lbia spouies 
appears to have been earlier of introduction to — at all ovonta to liuve beori longer 
known— in S.*E. Asia, i6 is now, though almost equally wide-sproad, muoh less 
"common" tba* the more recently introduced C. occtdentaliH. 
10, Cassia alata Linn. Sp. PI. 378. A abrub 5-8 feet high with 
very thick finely downy branches ] stem often 4-5 in. thick, scarred 
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