334 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Cassia. 
_vermicular. Stipules minute, conic, Racemes pendulous, 
simple, from one to two feet long. Flowers large, bright 
yellow fragrant, diverging on long slender, smooth pedi- 
cels. Calyx of five, nearly equal, oval, smooth leaflets, 
which are much shorter than the corol. Petais equal in 
shape ; viz. oval, but differing in size. Filaments the three 
lower much longer than the others and having a double 
curve, but no swelling, as in some of the other species with 
cylindric filaments. Anthers on the three long filaments 
oblong, opening by two lines on the face, the other seven 
clavate, with pores at the small end. Germ’ pedicelled, 
filiform, smooth, one-celled, containing numerous seeds, 
which at this period are without any sign of separation, 
that appearing in the advanced state, attached to the up — 
per margins.’ Style short, incurvate. Stigma conic, 
smooth, Loment cylindric, pendulous, &c. as deseribed 
by the accurate Geriner, vol. 2.p. 313 t. 147. an 
The tree is uncommonly beautiful when in flower, few 
surpassing it in the elegance of its numerous long, pen- 
dulous racemes of large, bright yellow flowers, inter 
ed with ed young, lively green 1 foliage. 
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Har7e. rhombifolia. R. 
' Leaflets about five-pair, rhombiform, polished, abe 
pendulous. Loment ghee Sine il lined ee 
bitter pulp. | 2 Last: 
A native of Ceylon, from thence General Hay Mace 
dowall sent seeds to the Botanic garden at Calcutta ° 
1802, In six years the plants therefrom have attained t3 
the height of twenty feet. It blossoms during the months 
of May and June, and the ‘seed ripens 1 in Febraaty, 
March, and April, 
Trunk straight. Bark light ska lbpRaired? and sot! 
Branches spreading, with bark like that of the trunk. 
 Branchléts bifarious, flexuose, round, and smooth. ne 
base often remains, and resembles rude thorns, Led 
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