Cassia LEGUMINOS^E 103 



In fl. and fr. autumn and winter; Red Hills, Sloane Herb. vi. 31! 

 Wrightl Cold Spring, Brownel mountain thickets, Swartzl also Macfadyen; 

 Bancroft ! March ! Cinchona, J. P. 1112, Hart ! Mandeville, Panton ! 

 between Abbey Green and Blue Mt. Peak, Hitchcock. — Guiana, northern 

 Brazil. 



A trailing shrub rising to 7 or 8 ft. or more, supporting itself on rocks 

 and trees. Stipules long, bristle-like, -5-1 cm, 1. Racemes forming a 

 terminal panicle, leafy at the base, corymbose. Bracts lanceolate, soon 

 falling, about 6 mm. 1. Calyx 4-6 mm. 1. Petals yellow, showy, puberulous 

 outside, 12-16 mm. 1. Pod 3-7 (10) cm. 1., cylindrical, black, smooth, 

 apex rounded, apiculate with the persistent style, base rounded, with a 

 short (5 mm.) stalk, " dehiscent along the suture " (Griseb.). 



C. fputicosa Mill. (C. bacillaris Linn, f.) occurs in some of the W. Indian 

 islands, and in tropical continental America, but we have only seen a 

 garden specimen from Jamaica. It differs from G. viminea, especially in 

 the leaflets being larger and semiovate; the flowers being larger, calyx 

 1 cm. 1., petals 2 cm. 1., and the pod larger, 2-3 dm. 1. 



3. C. bieapsularis L. Sp. PI. 376 (1753); leaflets, 3-5 pairs, 

 obovate-elliptical or elliptical-roundish, glabrous, 1 ■ 5-3 cm. 1., 

 the lower generally smaller than the upper ; gland club-shaped 

 between the lowest pair. — Griseb. loc. cit.; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. 

 pt. 2, 106 <fe Trans. Linn. Sac. xxvii. 525 ; Urh. Symb. Ant. iv. 273. 

 A specimen from Hort. Upsal., named by Linnaeus, is in Herb. 

 Linn. 



Wright I Lambert ! March ! Mavis Bank, J. P. 1339, Hart I Port Morant, 

 Port Antonio, Lucea, Hitchcock ; Porus, Lloyd ; Hector's River, Harris <& 

 Britton 1 Fl. Jam, 10,719. — West Indies, Bermuda, and tropical continental 

 America. 



Shrub, 4-10 ft, high, glabrous. Peduncles in the upper axils, as long 

 as, or longer than, the leaves, the highest racemes often forming a terminal 

 panicle. Flowers yellow, variable in size. Calyx 7-8 (10) mm. 1. Petals 

 10-12 (16-18) mm. 1. Pod stalked, subcylindrical or slightly inflated, 

 usually straight, 6-15 cm. 1., 1-1*5 cm. br., smooth, apex rounded, 



4, C. ISBvlgata Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 441 (1809) ; leaflets, 

 3-4 pairs, ovate-lanceolate, lanceolate, or elliptical, acuminate, 

 3-7 (8) cm. 1. ; glands cylindrical or ovoid, pointed, usually 

 between each pair of leaflets. — Goliad. Hist. Cass. 89, t. 5; 

 Griseb. loc. cit. ; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 2, 108 & Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxvii. 527 ; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 273. C, fruticosa erecta 

 foliis plurimis &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 223 ? Senna occidentalis &c. 

 Sloane Cat. 148 «k Hist. it. 48 (in part). 



Sloane Herb. vi. 29* 1 common about the Angels, Browne ; Cinchona, 

 J, P, 601, Hartl Falls River, Prior.— Porto Rico, tropical continental 

 America, tropical west Africa ; also in Asia and Australia, probably 

 introduced. 



Shrub, 3-6 ft, high, glabrous. Stipules long, soon falling, awl-shaped 

 to linear, 5-8 mm. 1. Bacemes axillary in the upper axils, the highest 

 forming a terminal corymbose panicle, with yellow flowers. Sepals 

 coloured, 6-10 mm. 1. Petals veined, 12-16 mm. 1. Pod shortly stalked, 

 cylindrical, splitting along one margin or sometimes not splitting open, 

 beaked with the remains of the style, 6-9 cm. 1. 



