158 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 



The natives make from the leaves, seeds, and roots of C. grandis and C. occidentalis 

 various medicaments. Grosourdy (cited by Cook and Collins, p. 108) says that the 

 wood of this tree is handsome, strong, and very resistant, of ordinary weight and hard- 

 ness, fibrous in texture and fine-grained. 



Local name, cqnafistula cimarrona. 



3. Cassia quinquangulata L. 



(Urban, 272.) 



Shrub 2.5 to 3 meters high or a small tree about 10 meters high; branches angular; 

 leaflets 2-jugate, obliquely ovate, shortly and obtusely acuminate, 7.5 to 10 cm. long, 

 the lower sometimes smaller, shining above, yellow-pubescent beneath, the glands 

 slender, between each pair of leaflets; flowers in short racemes, usually arranged in a 

 terminal panicle; sepals ovate, petals 1.2 to 1.6 cm. long. 



Flowers from September to December. 



Near Bayamon in a copse; Sierra de Naguabo, on slopes along the Rio Blanco; near 

 Juncos, on Mount Florida; near Hato Grande, on Mount Gregorio; between Gurabo 

 and Caguas; near Aibonito, at La Lima; near Maricao, in mountain forests. St. Thomas, 

 St. Kitts. Guiana, Brazil. 



4. Cassia bicapsularis L. 



(Urban, 273.) 



Shrub 2 to 3.5 meters high; leaves 6 to 9 cm. long; leaflets 3 to 4 cm. long, 1 to 2 cm. 

 wide; sepals membranous, obtuse, 8 to 11 mm. long; petals yellow, 1.7 to 1.9 cm. 

 long; legume erect or somewhat curved, 9 to 15 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide. 



Near Fajardo in thickets on the coast; near Penuelas; near Yauco, on Mount Duey; 

 on calcareous mountains near Cabo Rojo; near Mayaguez. Bermuda (introduced, 

 Hemsley), Bahama (Grisebach), Cuba (Richard), Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, St. 

 Croix, St. John (Eggers), St. Bartholomew (Stockholm Herbarium), Antigua (Grise- 

 bach), Guadeloupe, Dominica (Grisebach), Martinique, St. Vincent, Mustique (Kew 

 Bull. no. 81, p. 248), Barbados, Grenada, Curacao. Tropical and subtropical South 

 America, very common, extending from south Brazil to Central America; frequently 

 sent also in collections from tropical Asia, but there only in cultivation. Madeira. 



Local names, sen del pais, hoja de sen. 



5. Cassia stahlii Urb. 



(Urban, 273.) 



Shrub 2 to 4 meters high; leaflets 5-jugate, the upper oval or elliptical, 2.5 to 3 cm. 

 long, 1 to 1.5 cm. wide, the lower orbicular-oval, 1 cm. long; glands of the common 

 petiole interpetiolular, oblong-linear; racemes long and many-flowered; flowers pur- 

 ple-veined; sepals 6 to 7 mm. long; petals 10 to 13 mm. long; legume erect, 12 to 15 cm. 

 long, 1.5 cm. wide, linear. 



In mountain forests between Guayama and Guamani; near Cayey, on the river 

 Morillos; near Aibonito, at La Lima. Indigenous. 



('. stahlii resembles in habit the closely related species C. bicapsularis, but differs 

 from it in its longer inflorescence, much longer pedicels, and 5-jugate leaflets. 



6. Cassia laevigata Willi! . 



(Urban, 273.) 



Shrub 2 to 3 meters high, glabrous; leaflets 3 or 4-jugate, ovate-oblong to lanceolate, 

 5 to 8 cm. long, 2 to 3 cm. wide; common petiole 10 to 12.5 cm. long, channelled, 

 with oblong or cylindrical interpetiolular glands; basal glands none; flowers in axil- 



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