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\ in. long, wing-stalked, in erect racemes 6-12 in. long. Calyx 5- 
parted ; lobes oblong, overlapping, the lowest concave and largest. 
Petals 5, orbicular, spreading, the upper one the smallest and 
innermost. Stamens 10, all free, longer than the petals ; lower 
half of filament dilated, woolly ; anthers uniform. Ovary sessile ; 
style glabrous ; stigma small. Pod glabrous, nearly flat, oblong, 
2-3 x 1 in., tipped with the hard, persistent style-base ; seeds 
4-8, mottled. 
Sutlej valley, Basantpur, Subathoo ; February-April. — Throughout India 
and Burmah, ascending to 4000 ft. — China. 
41. CASSIA. The classical name of some tree with aromatic 
bark. — Nearly all tropical and subtropical regions ; N. temperate 
Asia and America. 
Trees or herbs, not prickly. Leaves even-pinnate ; rachis 
often gland-bearing ; leaflets few or numerous, opposite, entire. 
Flowers yellow, in racemes or solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3. 
Calyx 5-parted ; lobes overlapping. Petals 5, nearly equal, spread- 
ing, the upper one the innermost. Stamens all free, 10, rarely all 
perfect or 5 or 4 ; perfect anthers uniform, usually dehiscing by a 
terminal pore. Ovary nearly sessile ; style incurved ; stigma small. 
Pod flat, cylindric or 4-angled ; seeds numerous, rarely few. 
In the FI. Br. Ind. ii. 266, it is stated that C. pumila, Lam. ascends to 
7000 ft. ; I have seen no specimen from above 1000 ft. The statement was 
perhaps founded on a wrongly named specimen of C. dimidiata (230, Edge- 
worth) in the Kew Herbarium. 
Leaflets 4-16, ovate, 1-5 in. 
A tree. Leaflets 8-16. Flowers numerous, in long 
racemes. Pod cylindric 
Herbs. Leaflets 4 or 6. Flowers few, in pairs or 
short racemes. 
Leaflets 6. Perfect stamens 7. Pod 4-angled . 
Leaflets 4. Perfect stamens 5. Pod flat . 
Leaflets 40-100, narrowly oblong, J in. or less. 
Stems procumbent. Stamens 10 . 
Stems erect. Stamens 5 or 4 
1. C. Fistula. 
2. C. obtusifolia. 
3. C. Absus. 
4. C. mimosoides. 
5. C. dimidiata. 
1. Cassia Fistula, Linn . ; FI. Br. Ind. ii. 261. A small tree. 
Leaves glabrous, 12-18 in. ; leaflets 8-16, ovate, 2-5 in., acute 
or obtuse. Flowers yellow, long-stalked, in drooping racemes 
1-2 ft. long. Sepals ^ in., obtuse, soon falling off. Petals obovate, 
j-1 in., clawed. Stamens unequal ; 3 lowest much the longest, 
curved, perfect ; 4-6 intermediate in length, perfect ; remaining 
1-3 very short, abortive. Pod cylindric, 1 in. diam., 1-2 ft. long, 
tilled with a soft pulp separating the numerous, flat seeds. 
Sutlej valley ; March, April. — Throughout India, ascending to 4000 ft. — 
Tropical Asia, Africa.— Native name, Amaltas. 
This is an exceedingly showy tree when in flower, and Grant-Duff in his 
FJotes of an Indian Journey, p. 122, speaks of it as ‘ that infinitely glorified 
cousin of the Laburnum.’ 
