3-21-29 Cassia Agri Stat, free 15 ft in open space so east of dwelling labeled "Cassia nodosa = Joint wood" but not this as desc B.M.J.C.P. 423-4. Trunk grayish with tight shuck skin almost smooth but for four vertical cracks. Lf s fl scars prominent so that twigs are densely lints long wand-like with leafy grft growth mostly at ends. Young shoots minutely hairy Lf 1-5 in long, evenly pinnate with 5-9 pair of lf ts. Paclis pubescent (esp when young) with 2-4 stalked glands bet lower pairs of lfts. Some of these glands sometimes appear to be below lfts but this may be because lfts have fallen. Lfts glabrous, boval, entire, only slightly irreg- at base, rounded at apex inequilateral, As 1 3/4 x 3/4 in, the lower one about 1/4 in long. Pedicels 2 mm. Fl yellow in short racemes (Raceme collected is compound by having one branch). Pedicelle 1/2 in, pedicels in sepalos Peduncles, pedicels, 2ext. subx lfts, hocts quite hairy. Sepals silcate. Petals more less hairy on veins outside. Fl 1/2 in acro widt apart. Filaments short, short (1mm in front 2mm behind. Stamens (some very rudimen- tary) 100 less than curved pubescent Calyx so deeply lobed that no "tube" is evident, yellowish green. Evidently not in B.M.J.C.P.423. Could it be C. siamea, Linn B.F.of B. 173. 4-15-29 Some hr lft at end of branches consisting about 10 racemes close together each in axil of lf. Each raceme no longer than subtending lf 2.2 # 6 in.