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 Cassia Biflora. Two-Flowered Cassia. 



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C/f?/} <7«^ Order. 

 Decandria Monogynia. 



Generic Character. 



Cal. 5-phyllus. /Vta/a 5. Anther* fupremae 3 fteriles ; in* 

 fimae 3 roftratae. Legumen. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



CASSIA biflora-y foliis fejugis oblongiufculis glabris : infe- 



rioribus minoribus, glandula fubulata inter infima, 



pedicellis fubbifloris. Hort. Cliff' t^g. Sp. PL 540. 



IVilld. Sp. PL 2. 521. Hort. Kew. 2. p. 51. Mart, 



Mill. Dicl. a. 18. 

 CASSIA lifiora. Am<en. Acad. 5. p. 397. 

 CASSIA fruticofa, foliis minoribus obovatis fexjugatis, flo- 



ribus geminis five bigeminatis, racemis alaribus. 



Brown Jam. 223. 

 CASSIA minor arborefcens, filiquis planis articulatis. Plum, 



Icon. p. 69. /. 78.^ 1. 



This fpecies of Caffia, being a native of the Weft-India Iflands, 

 is always kept in the ftove, where it forms a pretty little fhrub as 

 long as it can be preferved in health ; but moft of the tropical 

 fpecies of this genus are but fhort-lived with us. Perhaps 

 this may be owing in part to our keeping them too warm. To 

 . J u dge of the temperature moft fuitable to any plant, the lati- 

 tude of its native country is not more neceffary to be known, 

 than the elevation above the fea: at a certain height, even under 

 the equator, regions of perpetual fnow occur, and the nearer 



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