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The above six species were credited to the Philippines by F.-Villar, probably 
all being admitted on erroneous identifications. None of the species are known 
to extend to the Archipelago. 
Bauhinia inermis Perr. M6m. Soc. Linn. Paris 3 (1824) ; C. B. Rob. in 
Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 304. A nomen nudum. 
23. CASSIA Linn. 
Trees, shrubs, or stout herbs with large leaflets and obtuse sepals. 
Stamens 10, all fertile. 
Lowest 2 or 3 stamens much exceeding the rest; pods cylindric, indehiscent 
(§ FISTULA). 
Flowers yellow, in elongated, lax racemes; bracts small, deciduous; leaflets 
up to 14 cm in length . 1. G. fistula 
Flowers pink and white, in short racemes or corymbs; bracts large, per- 
sistent; leaflets 7 cm long or less 2. G. javanica 
Stamens equal or subequal; pods flat, dehiscent. 
Peduncles 2- or 3-flowered ; pods 7 to 9 mm wide 3. G. divaricata 
Peduncles subumbellately or racemosely many-flowered; pods 1.3 to 1.5 
cm wide : 4. G. glauca 
Stamens 10, 7 fertile, the 3 upper ones reduced to staminodes (§ senna) ; pods 
dehiscent, usually more or less compressed. 
Leaves with glands on the common rachis; suffrutescent herbs. 
Glands between the bases of two opposed leaflets; leaflets obtuse; pods 
with oblique dissepiments; seeds rhombohedral 5. G. tora 
Glands far below the leaflets and near the base of the petiole ; leaflets 
acute; pods with transverse dissepiments; seeds ovate, compresed. 
Most parts of the plant hirsute or pubescent 6. G. hirsuta 
All parts of the plant glabrous. 
Leaflets usually more numerous; pods turgid 7. C. sophera 
Leaflets 3 to 6 pairs; pods flattened 8. C. occidentalis 
Leaves with the rachis channeled above, barred transversely between the 
leaflets, but without glands. 
Suffrutescent ; flowers in strobilate subspicate racemes ; pods winged along 
the valves; leaflets large, reaching 15 cm in length 9. C. alata 
Trees or shrubs ; flowers in corymbose panicles; pods not winged; leaflets 
not exceeding 5 cm in length. 
Stipules large, persistent ; pod thin-valved, flexible, with narrow sutures ; 
young parts, inflorescence and leaves yellow-pubescent. 
10. G. timoriensis 
Stipules small, deciduous; pod with coriaceous, rigid valves, sutures 
thickened; inflorescence somewhat gray- pubescent, leaves glabrous or 
nearly so : .- |f » 11. G. siam.ea 
Slender herbs or undershrubs with very small leaflets and acute sepals (§ 
chamaecrista ) 12. G. mimosoides 
1. Cassia fistula Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 377; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 
(1878) 261; Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66" (1897) 156; F.-Vill. 
Nov. App. (1880) 70; Vid. Sinopsis Altas (1883) t. 42, fig. E; Naves in Blanco 
FI. Filip, pi. 120. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, Bur. Sci. 1876 Ramos: Province of Rizal, For. 
Bur. 2991 Ahern’ s collector : Province of Laguna, For. Bur. 10046 Curran. Min- 
doro, For. Bur. 8581 Merritt, For. Bur. 11325 Rosenbluth, Ritchie s. n. 
