LEGUMINOSJE. (PULSE FAMILY.) Ill 
mostly opening by 2 pores or chinks at the apex. Pod many- 
seeded, often with cross partitions. — Herbs (in the United States), 
with simply abrupt-pinnate leaves and mostly yellow flowers. 
(An ancient name, of obscure derivation.) 
♦ Perennial : lower anthers fertile , 7; the 3 upper ones deformed and 
imperfect. 
1. C. Maril&mlica, L. (Wild Senna.) Leaflets 6-9 
pairs, lanceolate-oblong; petiole with a club-shaped gland near the 
base ; stipules deciduous ; flowers crowded in short axillary racemes, 
panicled at the summit of the branches; pods linear, slightly curved’ 
flat, at first hairy.— Alluvial soil, common. July_Stem 3°-4° 
high : leaves used as a substitute for the officinal Senna. 
* * Annual, low: anthers all fertile : stipules striate, persistent: gland 
beneath the loioest pair of leaflets cup-shaped: leaves sensitive to the 
touch: floicers in small clusters above the axils: pods flat. 
2. c. Chamaecrista, L. (Partridge Pea.) Leaflets 10- 
pairs, linear-oblong, oblique at the base ; flowers {large) on slender 
pedicels; anthers 10, elongated, unequal (4 of them yellow, the others 
fn UrP ioV st ? le slender *—Sandy fields, common. Aug.—Stems spread- 
rn^l ° n f : ° f the show r bri S ht yellow petals often with a 
purple spot at the base. 
£ C - L. (Wild Sensitive Plant.) Leaflets 10 
-.iO pairs, oblong-linear; flowers {small) on very short pedicels; an- 
thers 5, nearly equal; style very short. —Sandy fields, especially 
southward. Aug. _ Corolla yellow, inconspicuous. 7 
29. GYM NO Cl, A DUS, Lam. Coffee-tree. 
Flowers dioecious, regular. Calyx tubular below, 5-cleft. Pe- 
tols 5, oblong, equal, inserted on the summit of the calyx-tube 
Stamens 10, distinct, short, inserted with the petals. Pod oblong 
flattened, very large, pulpy inside, several-seeded. Seeds verJ 
large flatUsh._A rather large tree, with rough bark, stout 
ranchlets, not thorny, and very large unequally 2-pinnate leaves, 
r lowers whitish, in axillary racemes. (Name from yvpvis, naked, 
and K \abos, a branch, alluding to the stout branches destitute of 
spray.) 
Rioh G ' f a " ad, ‘“ sis ' Lam - (Kentucky Coffee-bean Tree ) 
Rich woods, by rivers, W. New York and westward. June. - Cub 
nvated as an ornamental tree ; timber valuable. Leaves 2° - lone 
lets^We> ar g e parhal leaf-stalks bearing 7-13 ovate stalked leaf- 
