ibe. Rane 
hi? Ss oS Gromainose (Harv.) [ Cassia. 
1. C. Delagoensis (Harv.) ; a shrub ; leaflets 8—12-14-jugate, lan- 
ceolate or ovato-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, puberulous or glabrate 
above, thinly silky and paler beneath ; petiole with a slender filiform 
gland between each pair; stipules broadly reniform, with one lobe 
cuspidate, deciduous ; peduncles many-flowered, racemose, in a terminal 
____ corymbose panicle; ovary silky-canescent ; degume.. 87, = % 
he cme “sees Bay, Forbes! Port Natal, Rev. Mr. Hewittson! (Herb. Hk., 
Allied to C. awriculata, but with different leaflets, &o. Young parts thinly pubes- 
cent, with pale, appressed hairs. Petioles 4-8 inches long ; leaflets 1-14 inch long, 
3-5 lines wide. Anthers birimose, glabrous ; 3 short, 4 mediocre, and 3 long and 
incurved. Petals veiny, orange, unequal. Ovary slender, multiovulate. 
2. C. tomentosa (Lam. Dict. 1, p- 647); a tomentose shrub ; leaflets 
6-8-jugate, oval-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, puberulous or glabrate 
_ above, cano-tomentose beneath ; petiole with a tubercular gland between 
each pair; stipules inconspicuous ; peduncles short, 2-4-flowered ; ovary 
_ Woolly ; legume linear, acute, compressed, villoso-tomentose. DC. Prod. 
2, p. 490. C. multiglandulosa, Jacq. Ic. Rar. t. 72. Seb, Fl. Cap. No. 
2, 
Has. Naturalized ? S. Africa, Sieber / Simon’ Wri 
dl Bolton? (tte {a De _ ve Seer: Bay, C. Wright Grahamstown. 
; A a a ipreee Species, often cultivated and now naturalized in several warm, 
coun’ ; parts velvetty-tomentose. -Ifi x 
lines wide. lowers teaght yellow. Legume 4-5 pilates salen 
_ 8. C. occidentalis (Linn. Sp. 539)3 suffruticose, ciliate; leaflets 4—-6- 
Jugate, ovato- or oblongo-lanceolate, acute, glabrous ; petiole with a tubercu- 
lar gland above the base ; peduncles very short, 2—4-flowered, the lowest 
axillary, the rest in a short, terminal raceme ; legumes linear, elongate, 
glabrescent, plano-compressed, with thick margins. DC. Prod. 2, p. 
ee Sloane, Hist. Jam. t. 175, J. 3, 4. Bot. Reg. t. 83. C. Natalensis, 
___-Has. Near Natal (probably naturalized), Gueinzius ! (Herb, Sd.) 
oe) A common West Indian plant, now naturalized in several parts of the tropics. 
Nearly oo. Petioles pale, 4-6 inches long, bearing leaflets for half that 
ets 1}~-2} inches long, the lowest smallest. Flowers little conspicuous, 
ides (Burch. Trav. iydh 341); herbaceous, procumbent, 
aucous, stems flexuous, angular ; leaves 6-7-jugate, with- 
leaflets unequal-sided, broadly oblong or obovate, rounded 
and slightly in minor 
le nor characters, § : ‘pale y 
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