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| CASSIA AVERSIFLORA. CONTRARY=FLOWERED 
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Class and Order. 
DecanpriA Monoeynta. — 
Generic Character. 
Vide supra No. 1829. 
Specific Character. 
Cassia _aversiflora ; foliis septemjugis obovatis, glandula 
-fulvé oblonga inter foliola inferiora, pedunculis bifloris 
axillaribus glabris, stipulis hispidis, coroll4 magna 
flava, laciniis tribus superioribus equalibus, dudébus 
inferioribus majoribus, extima porrect4, intima incur- 
vata, legumine falcato, antheris tribus majoribus ros- _ 
tratis longé apiculatis, filamentis tribus longioribus— 
Separatis, dudbus fertilibus una sterili, dudbus alteris — 
hag duabus sterilibus fundo persistenter connexis. 
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This beautiful Cassta was raised at Spofforth a few years — 
ago from Brazilian seed. It forms a tall slender shrub. | 
It flowered abundantly in the greenhouse throughout the 
Summer of 1825, and continued flowering in the stove 
where it was removed in the winter. One only plant havin 
n raised, it has not been yet ascertained whether it will 
» endure-the winter in the greenhouse. Some of the Brazi- 
_ lian plants even from the sea coast are very hardy, whilst 
others, which grow naturally by their side, are capriciously 
tender. We haye raised two Gesnerias from seed lodged 
amongst the moss adhering to parasites gathered near the 
Sea side, in the neighbourhood of Rio, of which one (G. 
bulbosa) is a hardy greenhouse plant, the other (we believe 
- prasinata) will not survive the winter there. The fe 
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