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CASSIA* austnilis. 

 New Holland Caaskx. 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Leguminos,e. § Cassiece. 

 CASSIA. — Supra, vol. 1. fol. 83. 



Sect. CriAM^ESENNA. 



Calycis sepala obtusa. Antheree oblongfB biporosse. Legnimina com- 

 pressa dehiscentia suturis subtumidulis, iiitus septis transversis completis 

 aut incompletis inult.ilocularia, loculis non pulposis. Seniina verticalia, seu 

 valvis parallels compressa, ovata, aut subquadrata, latitiidineni leguminis 

 subaequantia, funiculo longiora. Dec. prodr. 2. 493. 



§. Coluteoidcee ; JrnticoscB, pauci- aut mullifoliolatce. 

 C. australis; foliolis 9-10--(12 ?)-jugis lineari-oblongis glabriusculis obtiisis 



mucronatis, glandula subulata inter omnia paria, pedunculis tri-quinque- 



floris foliis brevioribus. 

 C. australis. Bot. mag. 2676. 



Caulis erectus, fruticosus, sulcatus, pubescens. Folia pilosiusculn, hori- 

 zontalia ; foliolis lO-jvgis, UneaTi-oblonyis, mucronatis, petiole subalato, 

 cjlanduld subulatd inter omnia paria ; stipuias subulatce. Pedunculi axil- 

 lares et terminates, foliin breviores, 3-5-Jiori, Jioi-ibus approximatis. Sepala 

 subpilosa. Petala vitellina, subcsqualia. 



A native of the banks of the Hastings, in New South 



1 Wales, whence seeds are often sent to England. It is one 



of the handsomest of the genus, and highly deserving of 



cultivation, as a plant to occupy the open border of a 



Conservatory. 



In their native places, Cassias are often among the 

 most beautiful bushes of the forest, covered with myriads 

 of flowers of the richest yellow, and scarcely inferior in the 

 gracefulness of their foliage to the Mimosa itself; yet in 



* See fol. 1310. 



