158 CONTRTBUTIONS FROM THIi NATIONAL HERBAlUUM. 



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The nativea make from the leaves, .seeds, and roots of C. (jmndls and C, occidrn falls 

 various medicaments. Grosom'dy (cited by Cook and Colliiks, p. "103) says ihat the 

 wood of this tree is handsome, sUoii.l;. and very resistant, of orduiary weight and hard- 

 ness, fibrous in texture and fmo-grained. 



Local name, canafistula cimarrono. 



3. Cassia quinquangulata L. 



(rrl)an, 272.) 



Shrub 2.5 to 3 meters high or a small tree aliout 10 meters hijj^h; branches angular; 

 leaflets 2-iugate, obliquely ovate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 7.5 to 10 cm, long, 

 the lower sometimes smaller, shining above, yellow-pubescent beneath, the glands 

 slender, between each pair of leaf!<^ts; flowers in short racemes, usually arranged in a 

 terminal panicle; sepals ovate, petals 1.2 to 1.(1 cm. long. 



Flowers from September to December. 



Near Bayamon in a copse; Sierra de Naguabo, on slopes along the Rio Blanco; near 

 Juncos, on Mount Florida; near TTaLo Grande, on Mount Gregorio; between Gurabo 

 and Caguas; near A ibonito, at La Lima; near Maricao, in mountain forests. — St. Thomas, 

 St Kitts. Guiana, Brazil. 



4. Cassia bicapsularis L. 



{Urban, 273.) 



Shrub 2 to 3.5 meters high; leaves {i to 9 cm. long; leaflets 3 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. 

 wide; sepals membranous, obtuse, 8 to 11 mm. long; petals yellow, 1.7 to 1.9 cm. 

 long; legunle erect or somewhat curved, 9 to 15 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide. 



Near Fajardo in thickets on the coast; near Penuelas; near Yauco, on Mount Duoy; 

 on calcareous mountains near Cabo Kojo; near Mayaguez.— Bernmda (introduced, 

 Hemsley), Bahama (Grisebach), Cuba (Richard), Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, St. 

 Croix, St. John (Eggers), St. Bartholomew (Stockholm Herbarium), Antigua (Grise- 

 bach), Guadeloupe, Dominica (Grisebach), Martinicpie, St. Vincent, Mustique (Kew 

 Bull. no. 81, p. 248), Barbados, Grenada, Curasao. Tropical and subtropical South 

 America, very common, extending from south B^razil to Central America; frequently 

 sent also in collections from tropical Asia, but there only in cultivation. Madeira. 



Local names, sen del pais, hoja de sen, 



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5. Cassia stahlii Urb* 



(Urban, 273.) 



Shrub 2 to 4 meters high; leaflets 5-jugate, the up]jer oval or ellii)ticab 2J> to 3 cm. 

 long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide,. the lower orbicular-oval, 1 cm. long; glands of the common 

 petiole interpetiolular, oblong-linear; racemes lojig and many-flowered; flowers juir- 

 ple-veined; sepals G to 7 nun. long; petals 10 to 13 mm, long; legume erect, 12 to 15 cm. 



longj 1.5 cm. wide, linear. 



In mountain forests between Guayama and Guamani; near Cayey, on the river 



Morillos; near Aibonito, at La Ivima. Indigenous. 



C. stahlii resembles in habit the closely related species C. bicapsularis, but differs 

 from it in its longer inflorescence, much longer pedicels, and 5-jugate leaflets. 



6. Cassia laevig'ata Willd„ 



(Urban, 273.) 



Shrub 2 to 3 metors high, glabrous; leaflets 3 or 4-jugate, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 

 5 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. Avide; common petiole 10 to 12,5 nw. long, channelled, 

 with oblong or cylindrical luterpotiolular glands; basal glands none; flowers in axil- 



