神黄豆 shen huang dou

Cassia javanica var. agnes de Wit, Webbia 11: 220. 1956; C. agnes (de Wit) Brenan.

Trees, usually more than 10 m tall, sometimes to 30 m. Leaves 25-40 cm; petiole 3-6 cm; leaflets 6-10 pairs, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 5-8 × 2.5-3.3 cm, both surfaces pilose, base slightly asymmetric, apex shortly acuminate. Panicles 6-9 cm, terminal on young leafy shoots, composed of 6-10 racemes; bracts broadly lanceolate, 5-8 mm. Sepals broadly lanceolate, 8-10 mm. Petals pink, slightly unequal in size, 3-4.5 × 1.4-2 cm. Stamens 10, among them 3 abaxial antesepalous with fil­aments 3-3.5 cm, inflated in middle, 4 of medium size, fila­ments ca. 1/2 as long as former, not inflated at middle, other 3 smaller. Ovary long, slender, slightly pubescent. Legume terete, 30-50 × ca. 0.2 cm, with annular nodes. Seeds numerous. 2n = 28*.

Forests, mountain slopes. Guangxi, Yunnan [Laos, Thailand, Viet­nam].