Cassia LEGU.MIN< >>.K 107 



mucronulate, the highest larger and unequal at the base, 

 2-4 cm. 1., covered with yellow or reddish hairs on both sides 

 but chiefly beneath and on the margins, gland long, slender, 

 awl-shaped, between the lowest or all the pairs. C. sericea /SV. 

 Prodr. 66 (1788) A: /'/. JW. Occ. 724 ; M,-f. Jam. /'. 340 ; Gn*>-l). 

 op. cit. 209; Bmfl,. in Fl. Y,V</x. xv. ///. : 2, 116, t. 35 & 

 Linn. Soc. xxvii. 536. C. sensitiva Jncrj. C<>IIr<-t. //'. 362 

 & Ic. Ear. *. 459. Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. (Fig. 33.) 



In pastures; in fl. Aug., Sept.; Wr'ujlit*. "hills of St. Dorothy and 

 St. John," Macfadijen \ Distin ! Merry wood, Falmouth, Nunes I Luana 

 Point; Long Acre Point, west of Black River; Harris \ Fl. Jam. 9927, 

 9968. Bahamas, Cuba, tropical continental America. 



Annual, woody at base, |-2 (4) ft. high ; branches petioles and inflores- 

 cence bearing yellow or reddish hairs, more or less silky. Stipules linear- 

 bristle-like, somewhat persistent, 6-11 mm. 1. Flowers yellow, small, 

 subsessile, in very short axillary racemes. Bracts like the stipules ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate or bristle-like, to 7 mm. 1. Sepals 3*5-5 mm. 1. 

 Petals 5-7 mm. 1. Pod transversely impressed between the seeds, linear, 

 somewhat four-cornered, straight, erect, crowded 3-6 together on a short 

 stalk, with reddish hairs, 2 '5-5 cm, 1. Seeds 5-10, somewhat rectangular, 

 the longer diameter parallel with the pod, 3-3 -5 mm. 1. 



11. C. bahamensis Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768); leaflets, 

 35 pairs, oblong, or elliptical-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate. usually 

 glabrous, sometimes with small hairs beneath, unequal-sided, 

 oblique at base, 14 cm. L, the lower smaller than the upper ; 

 gland tuberculate between the lowest pair of leaflets or rarely 

 below the leaflets ; racemes corymbose-paniculate. Bentli. t<>m. 

 cit. 541 ; Hitchcock in Miss. Bot. Gard. Eep. (1893), 80. 



Port Morant, Hitchcock. Bahamas, Florida and Keys. 



Shrub. Sepals about 7 mm. L, more or less coloured. Petals veined, 

 9-13 mm. 1. Anthers 2 curved, stalked, 4 straight, subsessile. Pod flat, 

 7-9(-12) cm. 1., 6-7 (-8) mm. br. 



1-2. C. biflora L. Sp. PL 378 (1753); leaflets varying in 

 size even sometimes on the same branch, and also in number, 

 7-10 (4-13) pairs, elliptical or oblong-elliptical, obtuse, the 

 terminal pair broader at the upper end, larger, and unequal at 

 the base, puberulous beneath and on the ma ruin or glabrati-, 

 L'-.V5 cm. 1. ; gland between the lowest pair and often lift ween 

 the two lowest pairs, cylindrical, sometimes stalked. L. Amu //. v, 

 397; Bui. M.t.j. t. s'lO; Bot. Re<j. t. 1310: M >,/. Jam. i. 342 : 

 Griscb. op. cit. ~<)8 ; Bttilh. in 77. Brut. XV. //. -, 1-1 A: 

 Linn. Six-, xxvii. ">l:5. C. tVuticosa foliis minm-ibus .v<-. 

 ll',*t. .him. L'L'."'. C. foliolis quinque jugatis Plum. PL Aim r. 

 (Burin.) t. 78, f. 1. C. angustisiliqua Lnm. /,'//<_//<. /'. >r. 1 ( 17>")). 

 C.crista Jacq. <'<>IL *'2 (1786) & It: l^u-. i. /.' 74. C. ful- 

 Mncf. loc. cit. A specimen from l->r)wm- is in Herb. Linn. 



Houstoun\ woods -\\<-\\\- Bull Bay, Brow '. Mm ;inl 



J.P. 12U7 (Herb. Kew.), 210S, Morris ! Constant Sprin.u. Hitchcock; West- 



