CAESALPIN1ACEAE. 



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Cassia grandis L.f., GREAT CASSIA, of tropical America, is a large tree 

 with pubescent, pinnate leaves of 10-20 pairs of oblong, obtuse or apiculate 

 leaflets about 2' long; its reddish or pinkish yellow flowers are in drooping 

 racemes, the long, somewhat flattened pod transversely wrinkled. A young 

 tree, showing foliage only, tentatively referred to this species, grew at Paget 

 Rectory in 1914. 



Cassia siamea Lam., MANY-FLOWERED CASSIA, East Indian, is mentioned 

 by Eeade as growing in the Public Grounds prior to 1883, and was seen at the 

 Agricultural Station in 1914. It is a tree up to 50 high, the glabrous pinnate 

 leaves with about 6 pairs of oval-oblong leaflets, the numerous yellow flowers 

 panicled, the pod linear, coriaceous, drooping, 4'-8' long. [C. florida Vahl.] 

 H. B. Small states that the tree mentioned by Reade was an Albizzia. 



Cassia corymbosa Lam., CORYMBOSE CASSIA, South American, recorded 

 by Lefroy as introduced at Mt. Langton prior to 1877, but not found there at 

 present, is a tree with glabrous leaves of 3 pairs of oblong-lanceolate leaflets, 

 about 2' long, the yellow corymbose, showy flowers about 1' broad, the pods 

 cylindric. 



2. GUILANDINA L. 



Shrubs, or woody vines, with stout but "weak stems, armed with recurved 

 prickles. Leaves abruptly bipinnate, with several pinnae. Leaflets 10-16 to 

 each pinna, pellucid-punctate. Flowers in racemes or panicles; bracts narrow, 

 deciduous. Calyx-lobes 5, imbricated, longer than the tube. Petals 5, yellow, 

 nearly equal. Stamens 10 ; filaments pubescent near the base ; anthers open- 

 ing lengthwise. Pods little longer than broad, flattened, prickle-armed, 2- 

 valved, 1-few-seeded. Seeds slightly flattened. [In honor of Melchior Gui- 

 landinus, traveller and botanist, died 1590.] Ten species, or more, natives of 

 tropical and subtropical America. Type species: Guilandina Bonduc L. 



1. Guilandina Crista (L.) Small. 

 GREY NICKERS. BRIER-BUSH. (Fig. 194.) 

 A straggling shrub, armed with hooked 

 prickles, the foliage finely pubescent. 

 Leaves l-2 long, the leaflets numerous, 

 ovate to oblong-ovate or nearly oblong, 

 mucronulate, li'-3*' long, rounded, trun- 

 cate or subcordate at the base; stipules 

 mostly foliaeeous; racemes or panicles 4'- 

 15' long; bracts surpassing the pedicels, 

 recurved; corolla dull yellow, 5 "-7" broad; 

 pods oval or oval-oblong, 2'-3' long, prickly 

 all over, obliquely short-beaked; seeds gray 

 or lead-colored. [Caesalpinia Crista L. ; 

 G. Bonducella L.] 



Rocky woodlands between Castle Harbor 

 and Harrington Sound and on walls and in 

 thickets. Smith's Parish, and in Paget and War- 

 wick. Native. South Florida and West In- 

 dies. Flowers nearly all the year around. Its 

 seeds presumably brought to Bermuda through 

 the ocean, as it is an abundant coastal species 

 in the Bahamas. In the West Indies this plant is characteristically halophytic. 

 but we have not observed it growing anywhere on the coast of Bermuda. 



Ceratonia siliqua L., ST. JOHN'S BREAD, CAROB-TREE, from the Levant, a 

 low widely spreading tree with evergreen evenly pinnate leaves, small spicate 

 apetalous flowers and linear fleshy pods, has long been well established locally. 

 There is a fine group at Par-la-Ville. 



