Cassia LEGUMINOS^E 103 



In fl. and fr. autumn and winter; Red Hills, Sloane Herb. vi. 31! 

 Wrightl Cold Spring, Browne \ mountain thickets, Swfirtz\ also Macfadyoi; 

 Bancroft I March I Cinchona. J. P. 111-2, JI<irf ! Mandeville, Pantonl 

 between Abbey Green and Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock. Guiana, northern 

 Brazil. 



A trailing shrub rising to 7 or 8 ft. or more, supporting itself on rocks 

 and trees. Stipules long, bristle-like, '5-1 cm. 1. Racemes forming a 

 terminal panicle, leafy at the base, corymbose. Bracts lanceolate, soon 

 falling, about 6 mm. 1. Calyx 4-6 mm. 1. 7 V/<//\ yellow, showy, puberulous 

 outside, 12-16 mm. 1. Pod 3-7 (10) cm. 1., cylindrical, black, smooth, 

 apex rounded, apiculate with the persistent style, base rounded, with a 

 short (5 mm.) stalk, " dehiscent along the suture " (Griseb.). 



C. fruticosa Mill. (C. bacillaris Linn, f.) occurs in some of the W. Indian 

 islands, and in tropical continental America, but we have only seen a 

 garden specimen from Jamaica. It differs from C. viminca, especially in 

 the leaflets being larger and semiovate ; the flowers being larger, calyx 

 1 cm. 1., petals 2 cm. 1., and the pod larger, 2-3 dm. 1. 



3. C. bieapsularis L. Sp. PL 376 (1753); leaflets, 3-5 pairs, 

 obovate-elliptical or elliptical-roundish, glabrous, l'5-3 cm. 1., 

 the lower generally smaller than the upper; gland club-shaped 

 between the lowest pair. Griseb. loc. cit.; Benth. in FL Bras. xv. 

 2>t. '2, 106 & Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 525 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 273. 

 A specimen from Hort. Upsal., named by Linna?us, is in Herb. 

 Linn. 



Wright ! Lambert ! March ! Mavis Bank, J. P. 1339, Hart ! Port Mokmt, 

 Port Antonio, Lucea, Hitchcock ; Porus, Lloyd; Hector's River, Harris < 

 Brit ton ! Fl. Jam. 10,719. \Yest Indies, Bermuda, and tropical continental 

 America. 



Shrub, 4-10 ft. high, glabrous. Peduncles in the upper axils, as long 

 as, or longer than, the leaves, the highest racemes often forming a terminal 

 panicle. Flou'crs yellow, variable in size. Calyx 7-8 (10) mm. 1. Petals 

 10-12 (16-18) mm. 1. Pod stalked, subcylindrical or slightly inflated, 

 usually straight, 6-15 cm. 1., 1-1*5 cm. br., smooth, apex rounded. 



4. C. Isevig-ata WIM. Enum. Sort. BeroL 441 (1809) ; leaflets, 

 34 pairs, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or elliptical, acuminate, 

 37 (8) cm. 1. ; glands cylindrical or ovoid, pointed, usually 

 between each pair of leaflets. Collad. Hist. Cass. 89, /. ~> ; 

 Griseb. loc. cit.; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. j>t. 2, 108 <\r Trns. Linn. 

 Soc. xxvii. 527 ; Urb. Syntb. Ant. iv. 273. C. fruticosa erecta 

 foliis plurimis &c. B'nucnr Hist. Jiim. L'L'O? Senna occidmtalis A:C. 



Cat. 148 & Hist. it. 48 (in part). 



Herb. vi. 29*! common about the Angels, Jlroirnt- ; Cinchona, 

 J. P. GUI, Hartl Falls Kiver, 1'rior. Porto Rico, tropical continental 

 America, tropical west Africa; also in Asia and Australia, probably 

 introduced. 



Slintli, :!-6 ft. high, glabrous. Stipule.^ long, soon falling, awl-shaped 

 to linear, 5-8 mm. 1. 7i'<urwr.s axillary in the upper axils, the highest 

 forming a terminal corymbose panicle, with yellow tlo\\ers. S 

 coloured, 6-10 mm. 1. Petals veined, 12 10 mm. 1. 7V</ shortly stalkrd, 

 cylindrical, splitting along one margin or si.metimes not splitting open, 

 beaked with the remains of the style, 6-9 cm. 1. 



