342 CALYCIFLOR^. 



the uppermost pair, which are very small. Ovary arcuate, in- 

 curved, cylindrical, puberulous. Legume ? 



I regret omitting to examine the fruit of this species. Swartz 

 merely describes it as short and compressed. 



9. Cassia biflora. Two-jiowered Cassia. 



Leaflets 6-8-paired ovali-oblong or obovate mucro- 

 nate subglabrous, with a pedicelled conical glandule 

 between the lowest pair, peduncles axillary two toge- 

 ther, each 2-flowered shorter than the leaf. 



C. fruticosa, foliis minoribus obovatis, floribus geminis s. 

 bigeminatis, Browne, Jam. 223. — C. minor, siliquis planis, 

 Plum. ed. Burm.. t. 78. f. 1. — C. biflora, Sims, Bot. Mag. 810. 



HAB. Common on the Windward road. 



FL. October — December. 



A shrub, 3-5 feet in height : branchlets terete, glabrous. 

 Leaflets usually 7-paired, petiolulated, somewhat obovate to- 

 wards the base, glabrous: petiole channelled above, minutely 

 pubei'ulous. Stipules deciduous. Peduncles axillary, two to- 

 gether, filiform, about an inch in length, each 2-flowered : 

 flowers showy yellow, on a pedicel the length of the common 

 peduncle : 1 or 2 pedicelled orange-coloured glandules at the 

 divisions of the peduncle. Sepals unequal, subrotund, concave. 

 Petals unequal ; the two smallest clawed, oblongo-spathulate ; 

 the largest one dimidiato- or falcato-oblong. Stamens, 5 of them 

 with fertile anthers. Ovary linear, compressed, curved, glab- 

 rous. Legumes linear, compressed, glabrous, about 20-seeded. 



10. Cassia fulgens. Showy -flowered Cassia* 



Leaflets 8-10-paired obovato-oblong narrowing 

 and unequilateral at the base rounded with a minute 

 awn at the apex subglabrous, glandules, one between 

 the two lowest pairs of leaflets, racemes 3-6-flowered 

 somewhat longer than the leaf. 



C. crista, Jacq. Ic. Bar. I. 74 ? 



HAB. Common, Port-Royal mountains. 



FL. June — November. 



A shrubby tree, 8-16 feet in height: branches subterete, 

 pubescent towards their extremities. Leaves about 3 inches 

 in length : leaflets rounded, with a minute awn at the apex, 

 narrowing and unequilateral towards the base, glabrous, except 

 the lower third of the under surface of the midrib, which is 

 pubescent : petiole as well as the petiolule pubescent. Stipules 

 I an inch in length, setaceo-subulate, pubescent, deciduous. 

 Glandules, one between each of the two lowest pairs of leaflets, 

 pedicelled, ovate, acute. Raceme axillary, towards the ends of 



