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XLVII. LEGUMINOSTL 
[ Cassia. 
(B) GESALPINIEzE (Genera 42-56). 
42 . CASSIA, Linn. 
Shrubs, trees or herbs. Leaves simple, even pinnate. Flowers 
usually large showy yellow or pink in axillary racemes and terminal 
panicles. Calyx-tube very short; sepals imbricate. Petals 5, 
imbricate. Stamens 10, rarely all perfect, 3 to 5 reduced to stamin- 
odes or absent; anthers usually basifixed dehiscing by terminal 
pores. Ovary sessile or stalked, many-ovuled; style incurved. 
Pod terete or flat, usually septate. Seeds flat. Species 340, whole 
tropical world. 
Stamens io, fertile. 
Pod terete; flowers pink; tree 
Pods flat; flowers yellow; shrub . 
Stamens 7, fertile; pods dehiscent. 
Trees; flowers in large panicles; yellow. 
Stipules large; pod thin-valved; leaflets 
pubescent ...... 
Stipules small; pod thick, stiff . 
Coarse weedy shrubs. 
Glabrous; pod 4-angled .... 
„ pod sub-terete .... 
,, pod flattened .... 
Hairy; flowers in axillary pairs, yellow 
Tall shrub; flowers with erect racemes with 
orange bracts ..... 
Slender under-shrubs with very small leaflets. 
Leaflets linear; diffuse herb; pod 2 in. long; 
seeds 20 to 25 
Leaflets oblong; erect; pod 1 to 1*5 in. long; 
seeds 8 to 16 
(1) C. nodosa 
(2) C. glauca 
(3) C. timoriensis 
(4) C. siamea 
(5) C. Tora 
( 6 ) C, obtusilolia 
(7) C. occidentals 
( 8 ) C. hirsuta 
(9) C. alata 
(10) C. mimosoides 
(iz) C. Leschenaultiana 
(1) C. nodosa Ham. in Roxb. Hort. Beng. 31; Baker, in Hook, 
fil. F.B.I. 261; Prain, l.c. 155. 
A tree 40 to 80 ft. tall. Stem 10 to 15 in. through. Leaves 
9 to 10 in. long; leaflets chartaceous, 6 to 12 pairs, oblong, shortly 
acuminate, base rounded 2 to 2-5 in. long, 1 to 1-25 in. wide, glabrous 
above, pubescent beneath. Flowers in corymbs, 2 to 3 in. long 
on the old nodes of the branches below the leaves. Sepals green, 
ovate obtuse, hairy. Corolla rose pink, -5 in. across; petals ovate, 
clawed. Pod terete, 1-5 to 2 ft. long, ’5 in. through, black with 
thin dissepiments between the 60 to 90 flat seeds. Hab. River- 
banks, forests, not rare. Pahang River, common. Malacca, Brisu; 
Sadanen; Selandor (Derry). Negri Sembilan, Tampin Hill. 
Perak, Chanderiang (Kunstler); Temengoh; Goping. Ulu Kerling 
(Kunstler). Penang, Waterfall (Curtis). Distrib. Burma, China, 
Sumatra, Borneo. Native names: Turukop Bumi; Sibusuk; 
Busuk-Busuk. 
(2) C. glauca Lam. Encyc. Meth. i. 647; Baker, l.c. ii. 265; 
Prain, l.c. 157. 
Shrub or treelet, 15 to 20 ft. tall, nearly glabrous. Leaves 
