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length and ending in an uncinate point, quite flat, thin, indehiscent, aie 
projecting internally. Seeds 2—4, transverse, pale, ovate, flat, 9—10 
x 7-8", with a punctiform hilum at the base. — Calieipseln Kauaiensis 
Mann, Enum. 120. 
Kauai! Oahu! Waianae ns gph — Hips yo E. Maui, Ulupalakua! and 
W. Maui! on Rei fore hills. Nat. name and «Kalamona»? The wood is hard 
grained and d. 
22. CASSIA, L. 
Sepals 5, somewhat unequal, scarcely connected at the base. Petals 5, 
usually unequal, spreading. Stamens usually 10, either all equal and 
fertile, or the upper ones smaller and sterile, with 2 or more of the lower 
fertile ones much larger. Anthers, when fertile, opening at the end only 
in pores or short slits. Ovary with several ovules. Pod cylindrical or 
flattened, usually long, but oe shaped. Seeds usually oblong and 
transverse, with a small quantity of albumen. Radicle short and fae 
— Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, the leaflets oppo- 
site. Flowers yellow, rarely pinki 
large genus, widely distributed over Ag warm regions of the World, but particularly 
numerous in South America 
All anthers rane a low snienalied shrub. : ; : f 1. C. Gaudichaudii. 
Three anthers sterile; an erect undershrub~. : 2. €. occidentalis 
1. C. Gaudichandii, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 81. — A low shrub, 
3—4 ft. high, with spreading branches, the young shoots fulyo-tomentose. 
Leaves 3—4‘ long, with 4—5 pairs of leaflets, the rhachis pubescent, with 
a stipitate or clavate gland between the lowest pair; the leaflets Kee a 
% 1J2—1', elliptico-oblong, retuse, membranous, on petioles of 1 
5—6”, Racemes axillary, slender, 2—3’ long, iat in 
nt, 
tuse, the 2 outer ones smaller. Petals pale yellow or greenish, scarcely 
longer than the sepals. Stamens 10, all fertile, the oblong anthers opening 
by short slits, enclosed, the short filaments glabrous. Ovary stipitate, 
hairy. Pod linear-oblong, 2'/2—4'/2' long, 4—5” broad, quite flat, apicu- 
late at the middle of the apex, impressed between the se -valved 
with thin valves, septate internally. Seeds 8--10, oblong, flat, black, 
transverse, and parallel with the valves. — Vogel, Synops. Cass. p. 26. — 
Gray, Bot. U.S. E. E. p. 463. 
Common on al hee on low hills and in open woods, to oe dia of about 2000 ft 
Nat.name: «Hen . Belongs to the Section Psilorhegma, Vogel. — Occurs also in Tahiti, 
according to ete ri 
72. C. occidentalis, L. — DC. Prod. II, 497. — An erect glabrous 
perennial, 2—3 ft. high, somewhat woody at the base. Leaflets in 4—6 
pairs, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 1—3’ nes with an ovate gland near 
