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*''Cassia nodosa'' Roxb. (1832), *''Cassia bartonii'' F.M. Bailey (1901), *''Cassia agnes'' (de Wit) Brenan (1958).

*A small to medium-sized tree up to 25(-40) m tall, deciduous or semi-deciduous, trunk of young trees either smooth or armed with stump-remnants of branches; leaves .*Leaves with 5-15(-20) pairs of leaflets, petiole 1.5-4 cm long, leaflets elliptical-ovate to oblong, 2.5-5 cm × 1.5-2.5 cm, base broadly rounded, apex acute or rounded to obtuse; inflorescence .*Inflorescence a raceme or panicle, terminal on leafy shoots or lateral on short side branches, up to 16 cm long, many-flowered; flowers .*Flowers with sepals 4-10 mm long, green to dark red, petals 15-35 mm long, whitish to reddish or buff, stamens 10, 3 longer ones with filaments 2 cm long, 4 shorter with filaments about 1 cm long and 3 reduced wih filaments about 1 cm long and minute anthers; fruit .*Fruit pendent, terete, 20-60 cm long, 1-1.5(-2.5) cm in diameter, indehiscent; seeds .*Seeds numerous, embedded in a flat disk.  ''C. javanica'' is a very polymorphic species and several subspecies are distinguished. It has a wide ecological amplitude and is generally found at lower elevations.