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15. CAssIA CALycioipes D.C. 
Cassia calycioides D.C. Prod. 2: 503 (1825). 
_Low, spreading, herbaceous, more or less pilose; leaves 6-15- 
foliolate, glabrous or subpilose ; leaflets linear, finely acuminate, .7 
cm. long, .15 cm. wide; petiolar gland slender, cupuliform, stipi- 
tate ; stipules linear, scarious, persistent ; flowers small, solitary on 
very short axillary peduncles; legume linear, acuminate, pubes- 
cent, 44.5 cm. long, 5 cm. wide. 
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, extending south into Mexico. 
Subsection Lezocalyx. 
Sepals membranaceous, scarcely striate. 
: Series Subaphylle and Prostrate unrepresented in the United 
tates. 
Series Paucijuge. 
Shrubs or perennial herbs, erect or spreading ; leaves 3-7-folio- 
late, subcoriaceous ; petiolar gland small, slightly stipitate. 
16. Cassia Wricutn A’ Gray. , 
Cassia Wrightii A. Gray, Pl. Wright, 2: 50. (1853). 
Ne branching, herbaceous or suffruticose at base; leaves 
Slabrous, membranaceous, 4-8-foliolate; leaflets elliptical, obtuse 
4 submucronate, .7 cm. long, .2 cm. wide; rhachis short; petiolar 
§ a very small, cupuliform, substipitate ; stipules lanceolate ; 
ie uncles 1-flowered; flowers large; legume glabrous, linear, 
Cute, 4 cm. long, .5 cm. wide ; seeds numerous, oblique. 
New Mexico and Arizona, extending south into Mexico. 
17. CASSIA GRAMMICA Spreng. 
Cassia grammica Spreng. Neue Entd. 3: 55 (1822). 
ten, branching, herbaceous or suffruticose at base, densely 
_ “scent; leaves 4~6-foliolate ; leaflets elliptical or sub-obovate, 
eat: subcoriaceous, canescent beneath, 1 cm. long, .3 cm. — 
ee \ petiolar gland obsolescent, sessile, compressed; stipules 
ie fate; peduncles 1-flowered; flower large; legume pubescent, 
‘ mat, mucronate; length (in young specimen) 3 cm., width .4 
M.; seeds few, oblique. 
F lorida, extending south into Cuba. 
€s Coriacee unrepresented in the United States. 
Series Suécoriacee@. 
Shrubs or perennial herbs, erect ; leaves 3-10-foliolate, obtuse, | 
3 . ; | 
4 ubcoriaceous } petiolar gland sessile; stipules small. 
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