Cassia LEGUMINOS^ 107 



mucronulate, the highest larger and unequal at the base, 

 2-4 cm. 1., covered with yellow or reddish hairs on both sides 

 but chiefly beneath and on the margins, gland long, slender, 

 awl-shaped, between the lowest or all the pairs. C. sericea Sw. 

 Prodr. 66 (1788) & Fl. Ind. Occ. 724 ; Mac/. Jam. i. 340 ; Griseh. 

 op. cit. 209; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. -pt. 2, 116, t. 35 & Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxvii. 536. C. sensitiva Jacq. Collect, ii. 362 (1788) 

 & Ic. Bar. t. 4:59. Type in Herb. Mus. Brit. (Fig. 33.) 



In pastures ; in fl. Aug., Sept. ; Wright ! " hills of St. Dorothy and 

 St. John," Macfadyen ! Distin 1 Merrywood, Falmouth, Nunes ! Luana 

 Point ; Long Acre Point, west of Black River ; Harris ! Fl. Jam. 9927, 

 9968. — Bahamas, Cuba, tropical continental America. 



Annual, woody at base, |-2 (4) ft. high ; branches petioles and inflores- 

 cence bearing yellow or reddish hairs, more or less silky. Stipules linear- 

 bristle-like, somewhat persistent, 6-11 mm. 1. Flowers yellovf, small, 

 subsesnile, in very short axillary racemes. Bracts like the stipules ; 

 bracteoles lanceolate or bristle-like, to 7 mm. 1. Sepals 3* 5-6 mm. 1. 

 Petals 5-7 mm. 1. Pod transversely impressed between the seeds, linear, 

 somewhat four-cornered, straight, erect, crowded 3-6 together on a short 

 stalk, with reddish hairs, 2-5-5 cm. 1. Seeds 5-10, somewhat rectangular, 

 the longer diameter parallel with the pod, 3-8 • 5 mm. 1. 



11. .C. bahamensis Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) ; leaflets, 

 3-5 pairs, oblong, or elliptical-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate, usually 

 glabrous, sometimes with small hairs beneath, unequal-sided, 

 oblique at base, 1-4 cm. 1., the lower smaller than the upper ; 

 gland tuberculate between the lowest pair of leaflets or rarely 

 below the leaflets ; racemes corymbose-paniculate. — Benth. torn, 

 cit. 541 ; Hitchcock in Miss. Bot. Gard. Bep. (1893), 80. 



Port Morant, Hitchcock. — Bahamas, Florida and Keys. 



Shrub. Sepals about 7 mm. 1., more or less coloured. Petals veined, 

 9-13 mm. 1. Anthers 2 curved, stalked, 4 straight, subsessile. Pod flat, 

 7-9(-12) cm. 1., 6-7 (-8) mm. br. 



13. C. biflora L. Sp. PI. 378 (1753); leaflets varying in 

 size even sometimes on the same branch, and also in number, 

 7-10 (4-13) pairs, elliptical or oblong-elliptical, obtuse, the 

 terminal pair broader at the upper end, larger, and unequal at 

 the base, puberulous beneath and on the margin or glabrate, 

 2-3 • 5 cm. 1. ; gland between the lowest pair and often between 

 the two lowest pairs, cylindrical, sometimes stalked.— L. Amain, v. 

 397; Bot. Mag. f. 810; Bot. Beg. t. 1310; Mac/. Jam. i. 342; 

 Griseh. op. cit. 208 ; Benth. in Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 2, 121 & Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxvii. 543. C. fruticosa foliis minoribus &c. Browne 

 Hist. Jam. 223. C. foliolis quinque jugatis Plum. PL Amer. 

 (Burm.) t. 78,/. 1. C. angustisiliqua Lam. Encye. i. 649 (1785). 

 C. crista Jacq. Coll. 82 (1786) & Ic. Bar. i. t. 74. C. fulgens 

 Macf. loc. cit. A specimen from Browne is in Herb. Linn. 



Houstoun ! woods near Bull Bay, Broughton ! Macfadyen 1 Distin ! 

 J.P. 1207 (Herb. Kew.), 2108, ilforris 1 Constant Spring, ififc/icocA; ; West- 



