333 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Cossia. 



ginate, otherwise entire, smooth on both sides ; from 

 seven to eleven-nerved, size very various. Floral leaves 

 cordate, with downy nerves and petioles. Tendrils gene- 

 rally axillary, simple, or two-parted. Corymbs terminal, 

 and from the exterior axils, numerous, forming large ter- 

 minal panicles ; every part covered with much dark rust- 

 coloured down. Flowers very numerous, small, of a pale 

 yellowish colour. Bractes solitary, one-flowered, oblong, 

 concave, caducous. Calyx with a tubular base. Border 

 often divided into five parts. Petals oval, subequal, 

 w aved, expanding. Claws hairy. Filaments five, three 

 with anthers, longer than the pistil ; two sterile, rather 

 shorter than the petals, and very slender; the whole, 

 with the style, ascend in an elegant curve. Germ pedi- 

 celled, very hairy, from three to four-seeded, inserted on 

 the loxAcr margin of the mouth of the tube of the calyx. 

 Stigma peltate. 



18. B. cordifolia. R. 



Smooth in every part. Leaves cordate, from three to 

 five-nerved. Corymbs terminal. Flowers triandrous, long- 

 pedicelled. Stigma peltate. 



A native of the Moluccas. 



CASSIA. Tourn. Gaerl. 



Ca?i/jc five-leaved. PefaZs five, nearly equal. Filaments 

 unequal. Anthers opening by two slits on the front. 



Note. The genus Cassia, like many others, is now, more 

 extensive than convenient, I have therefore, with Gaertner 

 separated the lomentaceous species from the leguminous. 

 The former under the old generic name Cassia and the 

 latter Senna. 



The first are trees of great beauty, particularly when in 

 flower, the leaves pinnate ; no glands on the common pe- 



