Cassia javanica - Java Cassia

Java cassia is a tree with drooping slender branchlets. Leaves are long, with 10-16 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets are broadly elliptic to ovate-oblong, more or less equal-sided, top round to blunt notched, Yellow-green stipules are membranous to leaf-like and sickle shaped to broadly elliptic, pointed or rounded at both ends. Pinkish flowers are borne in lateral racemes on short side branches. . Sepals are five, pink and papery, narrowly ovate and pointed. Petals are five, bright pinkish, broadly spoon-shaped, blunt to obovate. The blade of the petals is contracted into a narrow, long claw. Stamens are 10; three longest recurved, their filaments in the middle suddenly thickened. Filaments of four stamens are short. Filaments of another three stamens are equally long. The recurved stigma is pinkish-white, subapical and punctiform. Pods are round, hairless, glossy, black, thin-valved, and non-splitting, containing 50-60 seeds. Java Cassia is found in NE India to SE Asia and China.