lenius's work, we find a sumptuous engraving of the species, 
taken from a plant that flowered in Dr. Sherard's celebrated 
garden at Eltham ; but the figure of the fruit which ac- 
companies it, has been borrowed from Plumier's drawings, 
and evidently belongs to'a distinct species. Millers Cassta 
ligustrina is another species; but his bahamensis the same 
with the present. 
It is said to attain 7 or 8 feet in height; stems some- 
times several, at most about the thickness of a finger, 
round, surrounded by green ascendent somewhat grooved 
branches, thinly sprinkled with a short fine down towards 
the inflorescence; /eaves numerous, set round the branches 
in all directions, 5-9 inches long, of-a clear lively green, 
drooping at sunset, pointing upwards at sünrise, horizontal 
about noon; petiole downy, considerably enlarged over the 
joint at the base, and bearing a small gland in front of tbe 
tumor above; leaflets 5-8-, but oftener 7-paired, from an inch, 
and a half to 3 inches long, lanceolate, minutely villous at 
the edge and base, smooth: stipules 2, lateral, small, res 
curved, subulate, herbaceous, villous, deciduous. {nflo- 
rescence a leafy upright panicle formed of several 3c or more- 
flowered corymbs, lowermost issuing separately from: the 
axils of the upper leaves, which gradually decrease to mere 
bractes; uppermost terminal, aud. sometimes dichotomous. 
Calyx subherbaceous, villous, not reflectent. Corolla deep: 
yellow, without spots, and with nerves less prominently 
marked than is usual in the genus; upper petal obcordate, 
broader, the rest obovate, the two lower smallest. Stamens 
nearly as in Cassta occidentalis of the 83d article of this 
work. 
There is a variety with a smaller foliage. The drawing 
‘was made from a plant which flowered in great perfection 
last autumn in the collection of Mr. John Hall, at Notting. 
ill. 
@ The calyx. 5 The stamens and pisti. c The pistil detached. 
