Botanical Name - Cassia marginata

----- C. marginata, Roxb. ; F.B.I. II-262. Brandi's Ind. Trees, 253. Gamble's Ind. Timbers, 273.

----- A small or middle-sized deciduous tree. Bark deeply cracked, brown. Branchlets and young leaves silky. Leaves paripinnate ; leaflets 10-15 pairs, membranous. glabrous above, oblong, emarginate, and apiculate ( minutely acuminate ) at apex ; stipules hastate or falcate ; early deciduous, Flowers rose-coloured in axillary racemes or from the old wood ; bracts large or obovate, caducous ; pedicels 1/2 - 1 in. Petals 1/2 in. long. Pod cylindric, 8-12 in. long.

----- Often planted in gardens and also on road-sides in Secunderabad. Very ornamental when in flower.