108 FLOKA OF JAMAICA Cassia 



phalia Road, 3000 ft. ; below Flamstead, 3000 ft. ; Harrisl Fl. Jam. 6814, 

 9031. — Bahamas, tropical and subtropical continental America. 



Shrub 8-12 ft. Ligb ; twigs, petioles, and inflorescence densely puberulous 

 or glabrate. Inflorescence a corymbose-umbellate raceme in the upper 

 axils, sometimes by abortion of leaves paniculate, with 2-4 showy yellow 

 flowers, with long peduncle (2 -5-3 "5 cm. 1.) and pedicels (1-5-1 "8 cm. 1.) ; 

 glands 1 or 2, similar to those of the leaf, at base of the pedicels. Bracteoles 

 at base of pedicels lanceolate, 4-5 mm. 1., very soon falling. Sepals 

 unequal, 5*5-8 mm. 1. Petals unequal, the largest 2-2*3 cm. 1., 1-5 cm. br., 

 subsessile, the smallest about J as long and J as broad with claw 4 mm. 1., 

 the rest intermediate. Stamens 3 larger, beaked, 3 or 4 smaller, blunt ; 

 staminodes 1-3, with broad blade. Ovary sessile. Pod with a very short 

 stalk on the long pedicel and peduncle, linear, usually slightly curved, 

 compressed, 2-valved, 14-20-seeded, 7-15 cm. 1., varying from 4 to 8 mm. br. 



13. C. clarendonensis Britton Bull. Torr. Bot. Cluh xlii. 388 

 (1915); leaflets 10-15 pairs, elliptical, mucronulate, the upper- 

 most 1 or 2 pairs oblong, 1-2 cm. 1. ; gland bluntly conical, 

 between the lowest pairs. 



Inverness, Clarendon, 200 ft. ; cult. Hope Gardens ; Harris 1 Fl. Jam. 

 11,693, 12,149. 



Shrub about 4 ft. high, puberulous all over. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 



3 mm. 1. Bacemes much shorter than the leaves, corymbose-umbellate, 

 in the upper axils, with 2-6 showy yellow flowers. SepaZs subequal, 

 7-9 (5-6 fide Britton) mm. 1. Petals subequal, 13-14 (9 fide Britton) mm. 1. 

 Stamens 6(-7) fertile, staminodes 4(-3), with broad blade; the 2 long 

 anthers with short beaks. Pod strap-shaped, slightly curved, many-seeded, 

 impressed between pairs of seeds, 9 (7-10) cm. 1., 6 mm. br. Seeds about 



4 mm. 1., ellipsoidal, transverse, puberulous. 



14. C. emarginata L. Sp. PL 376 (1753) ; leaflets 3 (2-5) 

 pairs, elliptical, rarely obovate-elliptical, apex rounded or emar- 

 ginate, puberulous on upper surface, pubescent and soft to the 

 touch beneath, 1 '5-6 '5 cm. 1. (and more) ; glands wanting. — Sw. 

 Obs. Bot. 157 (excl. syn. Mill.) ; Wright Mem. 270 ; Macf. Jam. i. 

 344 ; Griseh. op. cit. 207 ; Benth. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxvii. 548 ; 

 Urh. Symh: Ant. iv. 274. C. minor fruticosa hexaphylla sense 

 foliis Sloane Cat. 146 & Hist. ii. 44, t. 180,/. 1. C. arborescens 

 diffusa &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 223. C. arborescens Mill. Gard. Diet, 

 ed. 8 (1768). Sloane's specimen, the type, is in Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Yellow Candle Wood, Senna Tree. 



Sloane Herb. vi. 28 (excl. pods and seeds) ! Wright 1 hedges and culti- 

 vated places, Broughton I Shakespear 1 Macfadyen 1 Savanna near Ferry, 

 Purdie I Oersted I J.P. 1317, Morris ! Gordon Town, Ball ! Kingston, 

 Hitchcock; Long Mountain road, 300 ft., Campbell I Hope grounds; 

 the Quarry, Spanish Town ; Harris ! Fl. Jam, 5698, 6933.— Cuba, Hispaniola, 

 Porto Rico, Guadeloupe, St. Vincent, Margarita, Central America, Colombia. 



A shrub or small tree, not exceeding 20 ft. in height in Jamaica, but 

 growing elsewhere to a height of 50 ft., puberulous on younger parts. 

 Stipules bristle-like,, 3 mm. 1. Bacemes corymbose, in the upper axils, 

 crowded with the leaves at the ends of the branches, with numerous yellow 

 flowers. Bracteoles at base of pedicels, 4-5 mm. 1., soon falling. Sepals 

 unequal in shape and length, 4-6*5 mm. 1. Petals stalked, unequal in 

 shape and size, 4 somewhat obovate, 8-10 mm. 1., the fifth larger, of a 



