332 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Cassia, 
ginate, otherwise entire, smooth on both sides; from 
seven to eleven-nerved, size very various. Floral leaves _ 
cordate, with downy nerves and petioles, _ Tendrils gene- 
rally axillary, simple, or two-parted. Corymbs terminal, 
and from the exterior axils, numerous, forming large ter- 
minal panicles ; every part covered with much dark rust- 
coloured down. Flowers very numerous, small, of a pale 
yellowish colour. Bractes solitary, one-flowered, oblong, 
concave, caducous. Calyx witha tubular base. Border 
_often divided into five parts. Petals oval, subequal, 
waved, expanding. Claws hairy. Filaments five, three 
with anthers, longer than the pistil ; two sterile, rather 
shorter than the petals, and very slender; the whole, 
with the style, ascend in an elegant curve. Germ pedi- 
celled, very hairy, from three to four-seeded, inserted on 
the lower margin of the mouth of the tube of the calyx. 
Stigma peltate, 
18. B. cordifolia. R. 
Smooth in every part. Leaves cordate, from shigell 
five-nerved. Corymbs terminal, Flowers Rripnlronte ene 
pedicelled. Stigma peltate, Agistt 
_A native of the Moluccas. 
CASSIA. Tourn. Gert. 
Calyx five-leaved, Petals five, nearly equal, Filennts 
unequal. Anihers opening by two slits on the front. - 
Note. The genus Cassia, like many others, is now, more 
extensive than convenient, I haye therefore, with Gertner ; 
separated the lomentaceous species from the leguminous. - 
The former under the old generic name Cassia and. he: 
latter Senna. 
The first are trees of great. beauty, eaten when in : 
aynet, the leaves pinnate ; no glands on the common pe 
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