346 CALYCl FLORAE. 



ed : style short : stigma obtuse. Legume linear, compressed, 

 glanduloso-hirsute, 7-seeded. 



Sect. 7« Sepals acuminaie, suhequal. Stamens 10 

 07' fewer by abortion. Anthers oblongs biporose. 

 Legumes piano-compressed^ dehiscent : seeds ver- 

 tical, — Leaves folded up during sleep. 



15. Cassia glandulosa. JBroom Cassia. 

 SufFruticose erect, leaflets 15-18-paired lineari-ob- 

 long mucronate glabrous above puberulous beneath 

 and ciliated, petiole rufescenti-pubescent, glandule 

 pedicelled close below the lowest pair of leaflets, pe- 

 dicels 3-4 supra-axillary fasciculate short 1-flowered, 

 legumes 8-seeded. 



Be Cand. Prod. II. 5Q2.— Honker, Bat. Mag. 3435. 



HAB. Common in the mountains. 



FL. Greater part of the year. 



Erect, fruticose, about 2 feet in height ; branches alternate, 

 subsimple, terete, brownish-hairy, compressed and angular at the 

 ends. Leaflets 17-paired, lineari-oblong, mucronate, unequal 

 at the base, ciliated, glabrous, and minutely punctulated above, 

 rufescenti-puberulous and the nerves coloured beneath. Pe- 

 tiole compressed, coloured, rufescenti-puberulous, 2-3 inches 

 long. Glandule close below the lowest pair of leaflets, stalked. 

 Stipules small, lanceolate with the apex attenuated. Flowers 

 3-4 together, on filiform pedicels, supra-axillary. Bracteas 

 lanceolate, attenuated, situated at the base of the pedicels. 

 Calyx bibracteolated : sepals subequal, lineari-lanceolate, acute, 

 pilose on the back. Petals subrotund, clawed, the lowest much 

 larger than the rest, obcordate, spreading; the other four 

 obovate, concave, erect. Stamens 10; 3 of them long perigy- 

 nous, incurved, tinged with blood-colour towards the apex ; two 

 very short ; the remaining 5 intermediate, yellow : anthers bi- 

 porose. Ovary silky-villous, compressed : style incurved, sub- 

 ulate : stigma silky. Legumes nearly two inches long, with 

 the apex acute, and the margin incrassated, brown-pubescent, 

 8-seeded : seeds black, rhomboidal. 



16. Cassia Chamaecrista. Cane-piece sensitive- 

 plant. 



Erect, leaflets 10-12-jugate oblongo-linear mucro- 

 nate, glandule sessile beneath the lowest pair, pedicels 

 2-3 supra-axillary fasciculated shorter than the pe- 

 tiole, legumes hispidulous. 



Browne, 225. — Sivartz, Obs. 164. 



