IC6 HORTUS JAMAICKNSIS, bona 



This is about two feet high. Leaflets oval-oblong, blunt, with a very small bristle- 

 shaped point. Flowers, yellow; pods linear compressed. Browne calls it the flowering 

 shrubby senna. 



C. SERPENS. SERPENT. 



Herbacea, tenuissima, procumbens ; floribus singularibus alar, 

 Browne, p. 225, C. 15. 



Leaflets seven pairs, Mowers pentandrous, stems filiform, prostrate, herbaceous. 



Stems three or four inches long, simple, somewhat upright, but depressed ut the 

 base, stii , i und, villose. Leaflets from seven to nine pan;, , somewhat 



sickle shapeJ, sessile, approximating, flat, oblique, terminated by a very short bristle, 

 an i - >u petioles filiform, short, thickened at the base, round, 



hirsu . th the lowest pair of leaflets are two flat, sessile, roundish, perforated; 



red glands. \.t the l pair of stipules, opposite, oblique, 



olate, acuminate, a'mest bristle sh tip. Flowers not axillary, but crowded 



above the petioles, small, yellow, on very short pedicels. Calyci ts lanceolate, 



spreading; petals unequal, ovate, obtuse, concave, spreading; filaments very short, 

 anthers linear, fertile ; the three anterior ones bent down, and someuhat larger; germ 

 compressed oblong ; style thickish : i ent; legume flat, compressed, 



of a broad linear shape, margined, blunt, villose, containing n -Sw. This 



is an annual plant in dr. , ion i 



bigger than a middle sized pin, stretching from fourteen to sixteen incl 



7. GLAJ '. GIANDULOUS 



Leaflets many pairs, with many gl, 



Stem suffruticose, with almost naked bi te, with a pedicelled 



gla id i each pair; peduncles , double, one-flowered, 



rter than the leaf. The flowers have six filaments, and two of the anthers are very- 

 Jong; the pods are like those of orobus. Luineus. 



8. 1 ! FLEXUOUS. 

 Senna occidentalis siliqaa singularifeliis ha ba ;. 31. v. 2. p. 5 1. 



Leaflets many pairs, stipules half cordate. 



Root woody ; stems spread on the ground, four or five inches long, with winded 

 leaves, the pinnze of which are pretty long. The flowers are axillary, pods flat and 

 about half an inch long. It grows in sandy places of th< a near St. Jago do la 



Vi ga. Sloane. 



9. PROCUMBENS. PROCUMBENT. 



Leaflets many pairs, without glands, stem procumbent. 



10. VIRGATA. TWIGGY. 



Leaflets ten pairs, ovate-lanceolate, villose, a petiolar pedicelled gland, pe- 

 duncles one-flowered, longer than the leaves. Sw. 



11. SERICEA. SILKY. 



Leaflets about four pairs, ovate, hirsute; a subulate gland between the teaflets, 

 peduncles four-flowered, legumes four-cornered. Sw. 



J 2. LINEATA, 



