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CASSIA ligustrina, 
Privet-leaved Cassia. 
DECANDRIA ' MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. LEGUMINOSA. Jussieu gen. 345. s 
Div. I. Cor. regularis. Legumen multiloculare, sæpiùs bivalve, 
dissepimentis transversis, loculis monospermis. Stamina distincta. Id, 
c. cit. 
CASSIA. Supra vol. 1. fol.'83. 
C. ligustrina, foliolis septemjugis, lanceolatis, extimis minoribus, glane 
dulâ supra basin petiolorum, Linn. sp. pl. 1. 541. ] 
Cassia ligustrina, Hort. Kew. 2. 52. ed. 2. 3. 28. - Pursh amer. sept. 
1.306. Willd. sp. pl. 9. 593. . 
C. babamensis. Mill. dict. ed. 8. n. 12. 
C. bahamensis, pinnis Yolioruin mucronatis angustis, calyce floris non 
reflexo. Mart. cent. 21; cum tab. 
Senna ligustri folio. Dill. elth. 350. tab. 259, fig. 338; ( exclus figurá 
Jructús pertinente ad diversam speciem et malo desumptá tabulis Plu- 
mierianis. ) WN 
Frutex orgyalis ; caulis teres ramosus, liosus ; rami striati, ascendentes, 
sparsi, virides, conspersi rarâ lanugine. olía numerosa, multifariam sparsa, 
-S-juga, sæpiùs "TZjuga, B-O-uncialia, lat? virentia ; petiolus viJJosiuscsdus, 
supra articulum. baseos tumidus & notatus glandulâ pared tumori insideni8 
antic; foliola distantia, brevissima. petiolata, sesqui-8-uncialia, lanceolata, 
basi ct margine minute villosa, ceterum glaberrima, interiora minora: stipules 
gemina, parva, herbaceee, subulate, recurve, villose, caducar. Flores sub» 
paniculato-terminales, panicule 2 conymbis plurifioris solitariis in azillis folio» 
Tum ramos terminantium & sensim in bracteas decrescentium:. pedunculi erecti, 
villosi, pedicellis _fastigiantibus, flore brevioribus, singulis suffullis bracted 
Propriá herbaceá ovatá acutá concavá. Cal. subherbaceus, lanuginosus, pluriês 
minor corollá, foliolis rotundatis, concavis, non reflezis, 2 intimis tenertoribub 
submajoribus. Cor. flava, sine macula, obsoletins nervosa ; pet. summo obcor- 
dato latiori reliquis obovatis, 2 imis minoribus : omnibus unguis. brevissimus, 
Anth. ferm? occidentalis (supra fol. 83.) appendicibus verd minis conspicuis, 
de infarnè -spern versis esos cscentes per paria, flavo-fuloescentes, Pist. 
üssurmens, . pedicellatum, longum, teres, villosum; stylus parim 
or, brevis, surrectus, glaber: stigma punctum cum cavo obtuso; intră 
versum, ciliatum, Legum. compressum, lineare, polyspermum, S-unciale 
latitudine fer? 4 partis unciæ, fuscum, cartilaginso-marginatem, acutum, 
A shrub which grows naturally in Virginia, the Bahama 
Islands, and Jamaica. Introduced by Mr. Mark Catesby 
about the year 1726. It requires to be kept in the bark- 
bed of the hothouse; where, although it flowers prett 
freely, it has not been known to seed with us. Ín Dil- 
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