660 CASSIACEAE 
regions, various provinces, Fla. to Tex., Nebr., Ohio, and Conn.—(Mez.)— 
Spr.—Often grown as an ornamental tree. 
. ADIPERA Raf. Shrubs. Leaflets few: blades of a lanceolate or 
‘elliptic type. Flowers borne in terminal panicles. Petals 5, nearly equal. 
Perfect stamens often 7, accompanied by 
often 3 staminodia: larger anthers with 
stout disk-like tips. Pod stoutish, thick, in- 
dehiscent. Seeds transversely or obliquely 
plaeed.—About 8 species, mostly natives of 
tropical America. 
1. A. corymbosa (Lam.) ces Rd 
m. tall: leaflets mostly 6; A 
late to p ar- ed or elliptic- -lanceo- 
ate, 2-5 ong, glabrous: panicle 
branches dine in corymbs: flowers bright- 
yellow: inn obovate, about 1 em. long: 
pod 7-15 e a ng, with convex de and 
furrowed Mice t Cassia corymbosa Lam 
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— ( GOLDEN-SHOWER. )-— Woods, waste-plaees, and roadsides, Coastal Plain, Ga. 
to La. and Tenn. Nat. of Argentina—Spr.—fall pei d on account of its 
yis) a rs of E EN flowers.—A second spec A. bicapsularis 
(L.) Britton & Rose, with obovate or cuneate leaflet blades. ave been collected 
in S Ph. Pt i is widely bearer in the tropic 
3. EMELISTA Raf. Herbs. Leaflets few: blades of an obovate type. 
Flowers solitary or clustered in the axils or aggregated in a terminal cluster. 
1 al. 
tals 5, nearly equal in size, but unequa 
E. Z P 
slender, tetragonal or nearly terete, de- 
hiscent along both sutures. Seed longitudi- 
nally placed.—About 7 species, mostly na- 
tives of tropical America. 
1. E. Tora E Britton & Rose. Plant 
nual, 4-15 dm. tall nearly glabrous: leaf- 
lets 4-6; odd obovate or cuneate-o obovate, 
Min slightly euspidate, hos terminal v rns 
the largest, 3-5 long: pet 
2 elongate, between Hic lower pairs P laiis: 
setaceous: flowers yellow: sepals 7-9 mm. long, the larger ones PoS petals 
13-15 mm. 
long, very diverse in shape: pod faleate, more less tetragonal, 
3—4 mm. wide. ia Tora L.]—(CorFrFEE-WEED -POD.) — Pin 2d 
waste pod fields, and i ag various po Fla. to Tex., Kan 
and Va. Nat. of trop. Am.—(W. I., Mex., C. A., A.)—Su um.-fall, or all 
year 
4. DITREMEXA Raf. Herbs, shrubs, or trees. Leaflets several: blades 
mostly of an ovate, elliptie, or laneeolate type owers in axillary clusters 
or the upper clusters borne in an erect ect panicle, yellow. Petals 
