Botanical Name - Cassia

----- Cassia, LINN . ; F . B . I . , II - 261.

----- Erect trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves paripinnate. Flowers usually large and showy, often yellow, in axillary racemes and terminal panicles. Calyx-tube very short or none; segments imbricate Petals 5 ; usually broad, nearly equal, Stamens normally 10, but rarely all perfect, 3-5 being more or less abortive or altogether absent. Ovary sessile or stalked, many ovuled ; Styles incurved ; Stigma terminal. Pod flat or terete, indehiscent or 2-valved, as a rule with transverse partition-walls ; Seeds numerous, albuminous.