280 DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
dric 10 to 15 lines long, searnely thicker than the capsule 
ofan Epilobium, which the whole plant approaches in ha- 
bit; calix 5 and sometimes 6-parted, with as many petals 
and 10 to 12 stamina; petals scarcely longer than the ca- 
dix, yellow. 
_ Principally a tropical genus almost equally divided be- 
 twixt India and America. 
: ttt Polypetalous; flowers irregular. 
398. CASSIA. ZL. 
Cali 5-leaved. Petals 5, subequal. Three 
ei anthers sterile, the 3 lowest rostrate, 
mS a longet and incurved filaments. Legume 
e seous, 2-valved. 
— Rotseacent; mflraticose or Letbactile: some species 
annual; leaves pinnate; common petiole, and sometimes 
‘the partial ones glandulous; flowers axillary, aggregate, 
Spiked or rarely solitary. 
Species. 1.C. Tora. In Georgia, and on the banks of 
the Mississippi. 2. cccidentalis. 3. ligustrina. 4. linearis- 
8. mawilandiea. In most of the: Atlantic: States and in Loui- 
sisns,a considerable distance up the Missouri—Consider- 
ed an efficient substitute for the Senna of the shops, which 
3s, however, said to be the produce of a species. of Cynan- 
chum. 6. Chamechrista. From New England to Florida. 
e £ Patron a: B. ae a 4 di 
- A tropical genus of more 70 — chie y indi- 
genous to America and India- *: 
599. SOPHORA. L. ae 
Calix 5-toothed, campanulate, gibbous on the 
mpper side. Corolla papilionaceous; lateral pe- 
tals (or wings) the engi of the vexillum. 
_ Legume moniliform, 
ly numerous; flowers terminal, racemose or 
$s 
ts cuneate-oval, or subelliptic, smooth above, — 
iky-villous; spikes many-Howered, subsessile; — 
Ss See, us. Har. On the elevated plains 
of the ‘Missouri, near the confluence of White river.— 
ated soweels» Honk 5 
beyond the leaves, brace ube Calix tubulous, 
 Aborescent or herbaceous; leaves pinnate; leaflets most- : as 5 
cies. 1. S. * sericea. Leaves pinnate, about 10° farina 
