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CASSIA* biflora. 

 Two-Jiowered Cassia. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos.je. § CassiecB. 

 CASSIA.— Sypra, vol. I. fol. 83. 



Sect. Chameesenna. Dec. 



Calycis sepala obtusa. Antherse oblongse, biporosge. Legumina com- 

 pressa dehiscentia suturis subtumidulis, intiis septis transversis conipletis 

 aut incompletis multilocularia, loculis non pulposis. Semina verticalia sen 

 valvis parallele compressa, ovata aut subquadrata, latitudinem leguminis 

 subgequantia, funiculo longiora. Dec. 



2. Coluteoideae ; frtiticoscB pauci- nut multi-foliolatcE. 



** JugiglanduloscB ; glandulis una aut pluribus inter foliolorum oppo- 

 sitorum bases. 

 C. bijlora ; foliolis 6-8-jugis ovali-oblongis obovatisve subglabris, glandula 



subulata inter infima, pedunculis folio multo brevioribus 2-4-floris. 



Dec. prodr. 2. 495. 

 C. biflora. Linn, amcen. acad. 5. 397. Bot. mag. t. 810. 



Rami dense tomentosi, teretes. Stipulae suhulatce. Folia 6-9-jnga ; 

 petiolo tomentoso, glandula subulata inter paria 2 inferiora ; foliolis oblong is 

 obovatisve sursiimmajoribus,leviter pilosis. Pedunculi axillares, Jiliformes, 

 bijiori, foliis breviores. Flores magni, intense lutei. 



A drawing of this plant was made many years since in 

 the Garden of the Comte de Vandes, under the idea that 

 it was a new species. It is, however, certainly C. biflora, 

 rather more luxuriant than usual. 



A native of the West Indies, whence it was long since 

 introduced to our Gardens. In this country it, like most 

 other species of this beautiful genus, has been neglected, in 



* According to Olaus Celsius, this word connes from the Hebrew 

 Ketzioth, rendered by kxtm in the version of the Septuagint, and Latinised 

 casia. But both Virgil and Pliny have a casia, which is supposed to have 

 been Z)aphne Cneorum. 



