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FLOKA OF JAMAICA 



Cassia 



C. obtusifolia L. Sp. PL 377 (1753) ; Sic. Ohs. Bot. 158 ; Macf. 

 Jam. i. 341 ; Griseb. op. cit. 209. C herbacea major diffusa &c. 

 Brotcne Hist. Jam. 224. Sena minor herbacea &c. Sloane Cat. 

 148 & Hist. a. 47, t. 180, /. 5; Dill. Elth. t. 62, 63. Type in 

 Herb. Hermann in Herb.- Mus. Brit. Specimen from Browne 

 in Herb. Linn, named C. tora in Solander's hand. 



Common in pastures and waste places ; in fl. Sept. and Oct. ; St. Jago 

 de la Vega, Sloane Herb. vi. 29 1 Lane in Herb. Sloane clxii. 261 ! Browne I 

 Wright 1 Pamell I pastures, St. Mary, Purdie 1 Constant Spring, Hitchcock ; 

 Poms, Lloyd ; Liguanea plain, 500 ft. Campbelt I Hectors River, near 

 coast, Harris I Providence, 700 ft., Thompson ! Fl. Jam^ 5835, 6003, 

 8055b. — Tropical and subtropical regions. 



Annual, undershrub 2-3 ft. high. Stipules linear-awl-shaped, 8-13 mm. 1. 

 Flowers bright yellow, long-stalked,. in pairs on a very short peduncle in 

 the upper axils, the highest crowded, with shorter stalks. Bracts linear- 

 lanceolate, about 5 ram. 1, Sepals 6-8 mm. 1. Petals 9-11 mm. 1. 

 Pod long, to 15 (20) cm. 1., 3-6 mm. br., slender, curved or sometimes 

 somewhat straight, slightly 4-angled, smooth. Seeds 20-24, obovate- 

 rhomboidal, the longer diameter parallel with the pod, 4 mm. 1. 



10. C. uniflora Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) (non Spreng.) ; 

 leaflets usually 4 (3-5) pairs, obovate or sometimes elliptical, 



Fig. 33.— Ca««ta uniflora Mill. 

 A, Portion of branch showing leaf, C, Flower from above X 2, 



flowers, and yonng pods x J. 

 B, Calyx in bud x 2. 



D, Part of flower cut through x 3. 

 £, Pod, nat. size. 



