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occurring 2 or 3 together; pedicels 3 to 6 cm long; calyx 5-sepaled; corolla, 4 to 6.5 cm
across, 5-petaled, petals 1.6 to 3.2 cm long, bright golden yellow, subequal, shortly
clawed; stamens 10, strongly accrescent (crescent-shaped) toward the abaxial side of the
flower, the filaments of 3 long abaxial stamens sigmoidally arcuate, gradually and
slightly thickened in the middle, and much longer than the anthers; pods, 30 to 60 cm
long and 2 cm or less thick, cylindrical or narrowly terete, straight, smooth, hard-walled,
dark brown, with seeds embedded in sweet, sticky, blackish pulp; seeds, many, up to
100, brownish. Planted ornamental. 3(58529, 58788), 5, 6, 7.
Cassia glauca Lam. " scrambled-egg tree?"
syns. C. sulfureu DC. ex Colladon; Senna sulfurea (DC. ex Colladon)
Irwin & Barneby
Recent introduction. India. Rare. Small tree, 4 to 6 m high; leaves, up to 30 cm
long with 4 to 7 pairs of leaflets; leaflets, up to 8.5 cm long and 3.8 cm wide, usually
elliptic, paler beneath; inflorescence, a 7 to 15-flowered axillary raceme; pedicels, 2 to 4
cm long; calyx 5-sepaled, innermost sepal 8 to 11.5 mm long; corolla 5-petaled, petals,
up to 23 to 30 mm long, ovate to oblong-obovate, bright yellow to orange-yellow; pod,
10 to 17 cm long and 1.3 to 1.8 cm wide, plano-compressed, brown; seeds, transverse,
compressed parallel to valves. Planted ornamental. 6(170, l75), 7.
Cassia grandis L.f.
te kasia? (K)
"pink shower tree", "horse cassia"
Recent introduction. Central America. Rare. Medium-sized tree up to 10 m or
higher; leaves with 8 to 17 pairs of leaflets; largest ones 3.5 to 6.5 cm long and 1.2 to
2.5 cm wide, oblong, obtuse at apex; inflorescence, 8 to 27 cm long, a 20 to 45-flowered
raceme, axillary or borne on branches, becoming obliquely geotropic from drooping
branches; pedicels, 8 to 20 mm long subtended by bracts; bracts, 2 to 5 mm long, ovate,
caducous as pedicels begin to elongate; corolla, 5-petaled, longest petals 8.5 to 11 mm
long; pods, 40 to 90 cm long and 3.5 to 5 cm wide, massively linear-oblong, slightly
laterally compressed, keeled dorsally by 1 and ventrally by 2 parallel blunt ribs; seeds,
14 to 16 mm long and 9 to 10 mm wide. Planted in home garden at Buada. 7.
Cassia occidentalis L. 'coffee senna", "arsenic bean"
tan braua ("sunflower")(N); te katia? (K)
syn. Senna occickntalis (L.) Link
Pre-World War I1 introduction. Trop. America. Abundant. Erect, branching fetid
annual subshrub, up to 2 In high, with glabrous longitudinally grooved stems and often
woody near the base; leaves, 11 to 24 cm long, alternate, pinnately compound, with 4 to
6 pairs of opposite leaflets; leaflets, 3 to 12 cm long and 2 to 4 cm wide, the terminal