CASSIACEAE 
Corola more or less irregular: leaves with pin- 
nately compound blades 
Leaves with 1-pinnate SERES Tribe 
Leaves with 2-pinnate blades Tribe 
Sepals 4: petals 3, and usually üccompunted by 2 rudi- 
ments: stamens = Tribe 
I. BAU 
Shrubs or mn trees with broad ie pu clusters of 
bright flower 
II. E 
Corolla nearly regular, the 5 petals slightly unequal: calyx- 
lobes obtuse: pod not elastically dehiscent. 
Pod tetragonal or nearly terete. 
uis ub: pod, indehiscent or opening irregularly: leaflets 
or mo 
HOD. pod dehiscent by both sutures: leaflets 6 or 
fewe 
Pod flat. 
Mee of ~ pod coriaceous, not impressed between 
t 
ma of the pod chartaceous, impressed between the 
see 
Corolla quite irregular, one of the lateral petals (standard) 
and the lowest petal large, ae other 3 D often da dd 
reduced : ealyx-lobes acuminate: pod elastically dehiscent. 
III. CAESALPINIEAE 
Flowers dioecious or polygamous. 
Flower with a very sed receptacle: stamens surpassing 
the petals: pod lea 
oid d a Jong reco adie; stamens shorter than the 
y. 
sepals : po wo 
Flowers perfec 
Pod long, po standard with a suborbicular or reni- 
orm blade. 
Leaf with a ve short petiole whieh ends in a spin 
each division “with a long flat phyl lode. like rachis. 
Leaf ti a decided petiole, the rachises not phyllode- 
Calyx-lobes valvate. 
Calyx-lobes imbricate, the lower one cucullate. 
Petals long-clawed: stamens greatly elongate. 
xb except the standard, P b or with very 
ort claws: stamens sh 
Pod short, *brickie-n ned: st a with a cuneate or 
spatulate blade. 
IV. TAMARINDEAE 
Tree with numerous fine leaves, pale flowers, and thick pod 
with sour pulp. 
Shrubs or trees. Leaves 1-foliolate: leaflet broad. Cal 
II. 
CASSIEAE. 
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III. CAESALPINIEAE. 
IV. TAMARINDEAE. 
1. 
2 
4. 
5. 
CERCIS. 
. ADIPERA. 
3. 
EMELISTA. 
DITREMEXA. 
PEIRANISIA. 
6. CHAMAECRISTA, 
7. 
GLEDITSIA. 
8. GXMNOCLADUS. 
9. PARKINSONIA. 
10. 
11. 
DELONIx. 
POINCIANA. 
12. CAESALPINIA. 
13. GUILANDINA. 
14. TAMARINDUS. 
ERCIS L. 
mos lobed: tube gibbous. Corolla pink-purple: keel-petals of the ae 
papilionaceous corolla longer than the others. 
Anthers short, opening lengthwise. Po 
very flat.—About 7 species, natives of North 
America, Europe, and Asia. 
1. C. canadensis L. Small tree, with 
own 
ED-BUD. JUDAS- 
E.)—Dry rich "m often in ealeareous 
