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long, 8-18 mm. wide; flowers 14-1S mm. broad, in short axillary racemes; 

 stamens 10, the upper 3 imperfect ; calyx-lobes oblong, obtuse ; pod linear, gla- 

 brous, 1-1.5 dm. long, about 6 mm. wide, nearly flat, somewhat curved, its 

 margins thickened. 



Waste and cultivated ground. North Rimini, Andros, New Providence, Eleu 

 thera, Watling's, Long, Fortune, and Acklin's Islands and Inagua : Bermuda ; 

 southern United States ; throughout tropical America ; Old World tropics. Coffee 

 Senna. 



5 Cassia ligustrina L. Sp. PI. 378. 1753. 



Perennial, shrubby, glabrous or somewhat pubescent, branched, 5-20 dm. 

 high, the branches nearly terete. Stipules linear, fugacious or wanting ; leaves 

 petioled, 1-2.5 dm. long, bearing a linear-oblong gland on the petiole; leaflets 

 5-8 pairs, short-petioluled, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate acuminate at the 

 apex, rounded or narrowed at the base, 2.5-6 cm. long; racemes few-several- 

 flowered, peduncled, axillary and forming a terminal corymb ; pedicels slender ; 

 calyx about 8 mm. long; petals yellow, fading whitish, twice as long as the 

 sepals; perfect stamens 10; pod linear, flat, glabrous, curved, 7-15 cm. long, 

 6-10 mm. wide; seeds compressed, parallel with the valves. 



Waste grounds, pine and scrub-lands, Abaco, Great Bahama, Andros and New 

 Providence :- Bermuda ; Florida ; Jamaica ; Cuba ; Hispaniola ; Guiana. Privet 

 Senna. 



4c 6. Cassia bahamensis Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8, no. 9. 1768. 



Cassia bahamensis latifolia Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 27: 541. 1871. 



A shrub, 1-3 m. high, the stems simple or branched, glabrous or somewhat 

 pubescent. Leaves 7-15 cm. long; leaflets 3-5 pairs, rather firm in texture, 

 oblong or elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute or mucronate, 2.5-6 cm. long, the 

 petiolar gland large, sessile, wart-like, orbicular or subglobose, the linear 

 stipules caducous; flowers corymbose-paniculate; pedicels slender, 8-20 mm. 

 long; calyx 6-8 mm. long; petals obovate, 10-15 mm. long; pods linear, flat, 

 slightly curved, 7-10 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, the seeds transverse. 



Scrub-lands, coppices, thickets and pine-lands. Berry Islands, Andros. New 

 Providence, Exuma Chain. Long Island, Great Ragged Island, Eleuthera, Cat Island, 

 Little San Salvador. Watling's Rum Cay, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, South 

 Caicos : Florida: Cays of northern Cuba. Specimens from Fortune Island and 

 South Caicos have broadly ovate-elliptic leaflets (var. latifolia Benth.). Bahama 

 Senna. Stinking Pea. 



7. Cassia biflora L. Sp. PL 378. 1753. 



Cassia angustisiliqua Lam. Encycl. 1: 649. 1783. 



Cassia biflora angustisiliqua Lam.; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 208. 1860. 



A shrub or rarely a small tree up to 4 m. high, the slender twigs glabrous 

 or pubescent, the subulate stipules deciduous. Leaves 5-10 cm. long, bearing a 

 cylindric sessile gland, 3-6 mm. long, between the lowest pair of leaflets; 

 leaflets 4-11 pairs, oblong to obovate-oblong, 1-3 cm. long, glabrous or sparingly 

 pubescent, membranous or subchartaceous, obtuse, acutish, or slightly emargi- 

 nate and commonly mucronulate at the apex, rounded or narrowed at the base : 

 flowers in small corymbs; pedicels very slender, 8-20 mm. long; calyx 5-7 mm. 

 long; petals obovate, about three times as long as the calyx; pod linear, flat, 

 membranous, sparingly pubescent or glabrous, 5-10 cm. long, 4-9 mm. wide, 

 somewhat impressed between the seeds. 



Scrub and open lands. New Providence, Eleuthera. Cat Island. Great Exuma, 

 Watling's, Atwood Cay, Fortune Island. Caicos and Inagua: Jamaica; Cuba; His- 

 paniola: Grenada; Florida; continental tropical America. Bushy Si:n.\a. Mos- 

 quito Bush. 



