206 LEGUMINOSiE. 



60. LEBIDIBIA, DC. 



Calyx-tube turbinate, persistent : limb 5-partite, nearly equal. Petals 5. Stamens 10. 

 Stigma minutely capitate, concave, glabrous. Legume broadly oblong, laterally incurved, 

 flatly compressed, slightly convex on the outer, concave on the inner side, many-seeded, 

 wingless, sessile : seeds separated by cellular tissue. — A tree ; leaves bipinnate : pinna) un- 

 paired, abruptly pinnate ; flowers white, in contracted, compound racemes: branches few- 

 flowered: pedicels jointed at the base and at the top, destitute of bracts. 



143. Xi. coriaria, Schlecht. — Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 260. f. 33. Humb. Mimos. t. 45. — 

 Poinciana, Jacq. Csesalpinia, Humb. 20'-30' high, unarmed, glabrous, with the petioles 

 puberulous or glabrescent; pinna; 15-9: leaflets 24-16-jugal, oblong-linear, blunt, 

 dotted with a series of black dots beneath ; petals as long as the calyx, spathulate, 2'" lonjr ; 

 legume 2"-l£" long, 9"'-10'" broad, rounded at the top, S-6-seeded. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Macf. ; Trinidad !, Or. ; [Haiti and Mexico ! to Venezuela !]. 



61. PELTOPIIORUM, Fog. 



Calyx 5-partite : segments nearly equal or the inferior larger. Petals 5. Stamens 10, 

 hirsute at the base, included. Stigma broadly peltate, glabrous. Legume oblong, flatly 

 compressed, few- or 1-seeded, wingless, stipitate : valves connected by cellular tissue. — Unarmed 

 trees ; leaves abruptly bipinnate ; racemes usually paniculate. 



144. P. Linnsei, Benth.l Pinnce 4-jugal : leaflets &-8-jugal, semiovate -oblong or 

 oval, bluntish, slightly puberulous or glabrescent, shortly petiolulate : petioles and racemes 

 puberulous ; pedicels short ; " calyx-segments lacerate on the margin, the inferior larger, 

 fimbriate ;" legume 4-2-secded, broadly oblong, blunt, acute at the shortly stipitate base. — 

 Caisalpinia brasiliensis, L. e Jamaica ; Sw., Macf. ! — A low tree ; wood orange-coloured ; 

 leaflets 18"'-8'" long ; " flowers small, yellow :" pedicels 3'" long ; legume 3"-2£" long, 

 14"'— 12'" broad, glabrous: stalk 3'" long : seeds roundish, compressed. — Hab. Jamaica!, 

 Macf, on dry, calcareous soil. 



145. P. adnatum, Gr. (n. sp.). Pinnce 6-7-jugal: leaflets S6-\6-jugal, oblong- 

 linear or linear, blunt, broadly adnate at the base, rusty-pubescent beneath : petioles, 

 inflorescence, and calyx rusty-tomentose ; panicle lax, corymbiform : pedicels long ; calyx 

 much exceeded by the corolla : segments nearly equal, entire ; legume . . . . — Pinna 6" —8'" 

 distant from each other, opposite : leaflets opposite, shining-glabrous above, somewhat 

 revolute on the margin, equilateral, spreading, adnate to the rhachis by their whole breadth, 

 3"'-2'" long, l'"-i'" broad; panicle dichotomously divided into racemes at and above the 

 base : pedicels 5-10 on each branch, spreading, 8'" long ; calyx imbricate, 3'" long : tube 

 minute, turbinate : segments obovate ; petals broadly obovate, subentire, the largest 8'" long, 

 twice as long as the stamens ; filaments densely rusty-pilose at the base, as long as the style : 

 anthers ovate-oblong, incumbent, introrse ; ovary rusty-villous, 4-ovulate : stigma abruptly 

 enlarged, glabrous, ■§'" broad. — Hab. Bahamas !, Swains. 



62. CASSIA, L. 



Sepals 5, subdistinct, deciduous. Petals 5. Stamens 10 (-5) : 3 superior often difform 

 or abortive : anther-cells dehiscent by pores or incomplete clefts. Legume compressed or 

 cylindrical, dry or filled with pulp, often many-celled, with spurious dissepiments. Embryo 

 straight. — Leaves abruptly pinnate .• leaflets opposite ; flowers mostly yellow. 



Sect. 1. Fistula. — Stamens 10, fertile : anthers ovate-oblong, bursting above with incom- 

 plete clefts (or at the base with pores). Legume cylindrical or nearly so, indehiscent, 

 many-celled, mostly filled with pulp : seeds compressed, parallel to the dissepiments. — 

 Trees ; flowers racemose, large. 



146*. C. Fistula, L. Leaflets 4>-8jugal, ovate-oblong, bluntish (rarely acuminate), 

 glabrescent : petiole eglandular ; racemes lax, drooping ; pedicels long, ebracteate ; legume 

 cylindrical, smooth, glabrous.— Titss. Fl. 4. t. 2. TJesc. PL 2. t. 125. — Leaflets 4"-5", 

 sepals 2"'-4'", petals 8"'-12'", legume 2'-l' long.— Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica!, Macf., 

 Dist., and in the Caribbean Islands I ; [Mexico ! to Brazil ! ; trop. Africa ! to Egypt ! ; East 

 Indies! to China!]. 



