662 CASSIACEAE 
in terminal cluster-like panicles, yellow. Petals 5, unequal in size and in 
shape. Stamens usually 7, with 2 or 3 of the lower ones beaked, accompanied 
with usually 3 staminodia: larger anthers with a snout-like appendage: pod 
elongate, flat, dehiscent along both thickened sutures. Seed transversely 
placed.—A bout aR species, natives of tropical America. 
1. P. bahamensis (Mill) Britton & Rose. Shrub 2 m. tall or less: leaflets 6-10; 
"m duc LA ovate or elliptie- -o to ERON mucronate, 1.5—4 em. 
pet gland depressed, betw 
love pair p leaflets or near it: _stipules 
vate to lanceolate: sepals 7— =. long: 
peii 10-15 mm. long, metimes NS 
smaller: pod flat, with lateral d | 
between the seeds, 9-11 cm. long, mm 
wide. ‘[Cassia bahamensis Mill.] — — Pine- 
eys.—(W. I. sd ear. A rub or 
small tree, Psilorhegma suffruti TT ue 
Britton (Cassia er eee Konig) f 
Asia and Australia, with numerous et 
and clusters of p Tn flowers, related 
to Ditremexa and Peiranisia, but with ten 
perfect FN is naturalized in ind pb t 
nian hammock, Mia Fla. A very 
showy shrub, Chamaesenns didymobotrya (Cassia di idymobotrya Forsk.), 
native à Africa, with racemes of large yellow TON glandular leaves, a 
thin flat re oceurs in vacant lots in Miami, Fla. 
Cassia biflora was first recorded from Florida by Chapman in on an 
imperfect specimen of Peiranisia bahamensis collected on Key Wes 
6. CHAMAECRISTA Moench. Herbs or shrubs. Leaflets few or numer- 
ous, with 1, 2, or 3 glands near the lower pair. Flowers clustered in leaf- 
axils. Sepals nearly distinct, membranous. Petals mainly yellow or whitish, 
sometimes marked at the base. Pod flattish, linear, promptly dehiscent, the 
valves elastie.—About 100 species, widely distributed in tropical and temperate 
regions.—SENSITIVE-PEAS. SENSITIVE-PLANT. DWARF-SENNAS. HONEY-CUPS. 
BEE-BLOSSOMS. PARTRIDGE-PEAS. 
Corolla ni de. more than 1 cm. wide, one petal slightly larger than the other 
four: stamens 10: pedicel 7 mm. long or more, 
Plant perennial. 
Leaflets 8-14, pubescent: ee gland small: pod 4.5 e long or less, pubes- 
cent with incurved hai . C. kegensis 
ned 24—40, glabrous: aN gland large (1-2 
wide od 6.5 cm. long or more, sparsely 
appressed ET nt. 2. C. Deeringiana. 
Plant annu 
Petiolar gland depressed, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide: leaflets 
mostly more than 24. 3. C. brachiata. 
Petiolar gland not depressed, 1.5 mm. wide or less: 
leaflets Ecl fewer than 
Stems and pedicels with incurved hairs: pod 
QUUM quU ACE with short hairs. 4. C. fasciculata. 
ute. 
Leaflets te 56. large, 15- 20 mm. long: co- 
rolla mos stly 3-4 cm. wide. 5. C.robusta. 
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