112 FLORA OF JAMAICA Cassia 



In fl. Sopt.-Dec. ; Houstoun ! Browne I Liguanea, Broughton \ Distin ! 

 "common in cane-piece intervals," Macfadycnl Agualta Vale, McNabl 

 Kingston, Priori Wullschlacgel ; Castleton, Morris! Constant Spring, 

 Hitchcock ; King's House grounds ; Bull Head, 2500-2880 ; Harris ! 

 Golden Spring. Thompson \ Fl. Jam. 6906, 8051, 12,268. Columbia. 



Stan somewhat shrubby; branches spreading, ascending, reddish, 

 villose, 1-4 ft. long, seldom rising higher than 2 ft. Leaves 2-5 cm. 1. ; 

 leaflets 3-6 mm. br., base oblique, semicordate, apex obtuse, mucronulate, 

 midrib exmedian, nerves prominent on both sides, margin ciliolate, other- 

 wise usually glabrous, 4-7 mm. br. ; petiole (3-5 mm. 1.) and rhachis 

 villose ; stipules ovate, apex acuminate-setose, semicordate at the base, 

 ribbed, ciliate, 10-13 mrn. 1. Pedicels 1-2 (4), as long as, or longer than, 

 the leaves, 2-4 cm. 1. in flower, somewhat longer in fruit, arising slightly 

 above the axil. Bracts lanceolate, 5 mm. 1. ; bracteoles awl-shaped, 

 2-5 mm. 1. Sepals sparsely villose, 5 mm. 1. Petals yellow, a little longer 

 than sepals, 6-7 mm. 1. Pod margined, puberulous, 9-13-seeded, 2-3-5 

 cm. 1., 4 mm. br. Seeds somewhat rectangular, buff -coloured, 2-2 mm. 1. 



According to Swartz there are very minute stalked glands under the 

 lowest leaflets. 



19. C. serpens L. Syst.ed. 10, 1018; leaflets, 5-7 (4-9) pairs, 

 oblong-linear, somewhat oblanceolate, 6-8 (4) mm. L, mem- 

 branous, with a small flat circular long-stalked gland below the 

 leaflets. L. Amain, v. 378 & Sp. PL ed. 2, 541 ; Sw. Obs. Sot. 

 161 ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; Bentli. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 570 

 & in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 2, 162. C. flexuosa Miller Gard. Diet, 

 ed. 8 (non L.). C. prostrata Humb. & Bonpl. in Willd. Enum. 

 Hort. Berol (1809). C. pygmsea Macf. Jam. L 348 (1837) 

 (non DC.). C. herbacea tenuissima &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 225 

 (excl. syn. L.). [Senna occidentalis] Eaclem floribus pediculis 

 longioribus insidentibus Sloane Hist. ii. 51. The type, Brown's 

 specimen, is in Herb. Linn., the name in Solander's hand. 



Sloane Herb. vi. 34, 35 ! Houstoun ! Browne ! Swartz \ Macfadyen ! St. 

 Andrew, McNab ! Liguanea plain, Campbell ! King's House grounds, 

 Harris ! Fl. Jam. 6020, 6911. Cuba, Central America, tropical 

 S. America. 



Stems slender, prostrate, glabrous or puberulous, to 1 J ft. long. Leaves 

 1-3 cm. 1. ; leaflets mucronulate, somewhat oblique at base, apex rounded, 

 obscurely denticulate, glabrous, midrib exmedian, nerves 2-3 from base, 

 pinnate on broad side, prominulous on both faces ; petiole hirsute below, 

 2-4 mm. 1., rhachis glabrous ; stipules narrowly lanceolate, long acuminate, 

 4-6 mm. 1. Bracts awl-shaped from a broad base, 2 '5-3 mm. 1. ; bracteoles 

 2-2-5 mm. 1. Pedicels 1-5-2-5 cm. L, solitary or rarely 2, on an almost 

 suppressed peduncle. Flowers yellow, generally smaD. Sepals 4-5 mm. 1. 

 Corolla : petals 4-6 mm. 1., sometimes twice as large. Pod oblong- 

 linear, slightly margined, 5-10-seeded, pubescent with a few long weak 

 hairs, 1-5-2-5 cm. L, 3-4 mm. br. Seeds somewhat rectangular, about 

 3 mm. 1. 



20. C. lineata Sw. Prodr. 66 (1788) ; leaflets, 2-5 (9) pairs, 

 oblong, somewhat broader at the apex, tomentose beneath, 

 9-16 mm. 1., leathery, with a solitary round flat or very short 

 cylindrical sessile gland below the leaflets. Sw. Fl. Ind. Occ. 



