162 CONTKIBUTIOXS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM, 



14. Cassia glandulosa L/^ 



{Urban, 27G.) - 



A herbaceous ur yuffrutcscent plant 0.5 to 1.5 meters bigli; braves 5 to 8 cm. bmg; 

 leaflets oblong-linear, membranous; pfduncle 1 to S-flowered; ye])alsl em. long; petala 



1.5 to 2 cm. long, yellow; stamens red; legume 3 to C cm. long, 5 to G mm. wide. 



In sandy districts near Bayaniun; Sierra do Naguabo, on the rocks on Mount 

 Piedra Palacbi and on the banks of the Rio Blanco; between Aibonitoand Algarrobo, 

 along roads; b('(weeu AiV)onitoand Coanio, <m precipices; nearl^tuado, on declivities 

 at Pellejas and at Mameyes and in rocky districts at Los Angeles; near Sabana Grande, 

 on the banks of the River Estero; n(^ar Arecibo. — Cuba (Ri<'hard), Jamaica, St, Croix, 

 St. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), (iiuuUdttupe, Dominica. Martinique, St. Vincent, 

 Bequia (Kew Bull. no. 81, p. 248), Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad (Grisebach). — 

 Tropical South America: Brazil, Guiana, Colombia. 



Cassia (jlandalosa has often (as by Linnaeus himself) Ijeen confounded with other 

 species, but it can be distinguishe'd from Cassia cliamaecrisla in that its petiole bears a 

 stipitate glaud between the lowest pair of leaflets (and somotimes several below the 

 upper pairs) and in that the pairs of leafli'ts are usually much more numerous* Cassia 

 clianiaccrista has sessile depressed glands, 



Local name, tamarindiUo, hcdiondillo. 



15, Cassia mirabilis (Poll.) Urb. 



(Urban, 270.) 



Stem suffriitescent, glal)rous; heaves pinnate, 2 cn:i. long; petiole 1.5 cm. long, with 

 two stipitate glands; leaflets 10 to 17-jugate^ 5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, oblong, rounded 

 at both endsj papyraceous, glabrous on both sides, shortly pc^tiolulate, mucronate; 

 stipules lanceolate, acuminate, 3 mm. long; flowers yellow; legumes 2 to 2,5 cm. long, 

 3 mm. wide, brown, glabnms, papyraceous, apiculate. 



Kear Manati, in sandy soil on the edge of Tortuguero Lagoon at Campo Alegre; 

 between Manati and Vega Baja in sandy soil; near Dorado, in the meadows of the 



coast. ^ 



16. Cassia nictitans L. 



(Urban, 270.) 



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Annual, herbaceous or suffrutescent, pubescent, with curved hairs, or glabrescent; 

 leaflets 12 to 25-(rar(dy 5-) jugate, 0.1 to 1 cm. long, oblong-linear, mucronulatCj slightly 

 oblique at the base, pcnninerved, striate with veins; petiole bearing a stipitate gland 

 below the lowest pair; stipules exceeding the insertion ])oint of the gland, acuminate 

 from a lanceolate, oblique base; peduncle l-(to3-) flowered, much exceeded by the 

 leaves; stamens 5 to 7 (or even 10); legume bearing scattered curved hairs; petals O.G 

 to 0.8 em. long. — Variable in the petiolar glands, which arc long-stipitate or subses- 



sile. 



Near Bayamon; near Santurce; n<nu' Juncos, on Mount Santo de Leon;noar Maunabo, 



at Punta de la Tuna; n(^ar Aibonito, on precipices toward Coamo; near Coamo, in 

 meadows between Serillos and Salinas; between Penuelas and Tallaboa Alta, on the 

 roadside; near Sal)ana Grande, on the bank of the Estero River; near Guanira, in 

 thickets on the seashore at Cano Gordo; near Mayaguez; near Marirao, in pastures; near 

 Rincon, in the mountains at Calvache.^ — ^Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti. St, Thomas, 

 St. Kitts, Guadeloupo, Martinique, St. .Vincent, Margarita, Cura(;ao, Mexico, subtrop- 

 ical and tempi*rale North America. 



"Cook and Collins, p. 113^ as Chamaecrista glandalosa 



