Cassia LEGUMINOS.E 109 



different form, somewhat S-shaped, concave, with wavy margin, about 

 15 mm. 1. Pod strap-shaped, slightly curved, somewhat swollen along the 

 margins, glabrous, black, many-seeded, 12-25(-35) cm. 1., about 1 cm. br. 

 The wood is used for firewood ; it is hard but not large enough for general 

 use ; it was formerly exported as a dye-wood. 



[C. siamea Lain. Encyc. i. 648 (1785) ; leaflets in 6-10('-14) 

 pairs, lanceolate-oblong to oblong-elliptical, apex rounded or 

 emargiiiate. mucronulate, glabrous on the upper surface, minutely 

 puberulous or glabrate beneath, somewhat leathery, 3-7 cm. 1. ; 

 glands wanting. Bentlt. hi Trans. Linn. Soc. xj-r>i. -'49 ; Bali, in 

 Hoolc. f. FL Br. Lul. ii. 264. C. florida VaM //////>. B<>f. Hi. 57 

 (1794); Grixt'b. op. cit. 208. C. gigantea Bertero ex DC. Pnlr. 

 it. 491* (fide Benth.). C. arborea Macf. Jam. i. 343 (1837). 



Mfirfadyen ; Wilson; March; Hope Gardens (cult.), Harris] 

 E. Indies and Malaya ; introduced in the New World. 



A tree, 30 ft. high and more, puberulous on younger parts. Stipules 

 minute (Baker), very soon falling. Racemes corymbose, axillary and form- 

 ing a terminal panicle, 1*5-3 dm. 1., with numerous showy yellow flowers. 

 Bracteolcs lauceolate-awi-shaped with lunate lobes about the middle, at 

 base of pedicels, about 6 mm. 1. Sepals greenish-yellow, subequal, 

 5-7 mm. 1. Petals stalked, not conspicuously veined, subequal, 12-16 mm. 1. 

 Pod strap-shaped, with swollen margins, nearly straight, puberulous or 

 glabrescent, 20(-25) cm. 1., 12-14 mm. br. 



This species has lately been planted along the streets of Kingston.] 



IT). C. alata L. Sp. PL 378 (1753) ; leaflets 7-8 (6-14) pairs, 

 large, oblong or obovate-oblong, very obtuse, 6-12 cm. 1. ; petiole 

 triangular; glands wanting. Sw.Obs.Bot.lQ2:, Wright Mem. 198; 

 Descourt. FL Ant. ci. t. 443 ; Macf. Jam. i. 338 ; Griseb. op. cit. 

 '209 ; Bcrttli. in FL Bras. xv. pt. 2, 126 & Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 

 550; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 275. C. herpetica Jacq. Obs. Bot. ii. i'4. 

 t. 45, /. 2 (1767). C. siliquis quadrialatis &:c. Browne Hi*t. Jam. 

 L'i'4. Juglandis folio, fruticosa &c. Sloane Cat. 153 *k ///*/. //. 59, 

 /. 175, /. 2. Herpetica alata Eaf. Si/ha TcUxr. 123 (1838); 

 Cook & Coll. Contrib. U.S. Nat. Herb. viii. pt. 2, 159, /. 39. 

 Specimen from Hort. Cliff, in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Ringworm Shrub. 



In fl. Nov. -April; Ferry, Sloane Herb. vi. 15! Ferry and Sixteen Mile 

 Walk, Jinnnir; Strartz; Ferry; Sulphur River, near Bath ; Mac/aili/cn ; 

 along river-banks, Wullsclilacgcl ; Port Royal; Luceu ; Hitchcock ; August 

 Town River, 450 ft., Campbell \ Halfway Tree, Miss Wood\ Ferry River, 

 200 ft., Jltnrisl Fl. Jam. 0296, 10,045. Tropics. 



A shrub 4-10 ft. high, glabrous. Stipules obliquely dilated at the base, 

 acute or acuminate, 4-12 mm. 1. Raceme* in the upper axils or at the 

 ends of branches, buds overlapping and forming a short cone but lengthen- 

 ing during flowering to 3 dm. and more, tirnctivlt'* largo, elliptical, 

 orange-coloured, enclosing the stalked flower-bud, -J-i^-o cm. 1., deciduous. 

 Sepals orange-coloured, somewhat unequal, 1:5 14 mm. 1. 1'i'inls yellow- 

 orange, stalked, broader at the apex, veined, 15 i!U mm. 1. Pod, before 

 opening, as it were 4-winged, by the development of a broad longitudinal 

 wing in the middle of each valve, 10-15 cm. L, 1'5 cm. br. Seeds 4-cornered, 

 compressed in the narrow transverse cells, about 7 nun. 1. 



