342 CALYCIFLOR^:. 



the uppermost pair, which are very small. Ovary arcuate, in- 

 curved, cylindrical, puberulous. Legume ? 



I regret omitting to examine the fruit of this species. Swartz 

 merely describes it as short and compressed. 



9. Cassia biflora. Two-flowered Cassia. 



Leaflets 6-8-paired ovali-oblong or obovate mucro- 

 nate subglabrous, with a pedicelled conical glandule 

 between the lowest pair, peduncles axillary two toge- 

 ther, each 2-flowered shorter than the leaf. 



C. fruticosa, foliis minoribns obovatis, floribus geminis s. 

 bigeminatis, Browne, Jam. 223. C. minor, siliquis planis, 

 Plum. ed. Burm. t. 78. f. 1. C. biflora, Sims, Bot. Mag. 810. 



HAB. Common on the Windward road. 



FL. October December. 



A shrub, 3-5 feet in height : branchlets terete, glabrous. 

 Leaflets usually 7-paired, petiolulated, somewhat obovate to- 

 wards the base, glabrous: petiole channelled above, minutely 

 puberulous. Stipules deciduous. Peduncles axillary, two to- 

 gether, filiform, about an inch in length, each 2 flowered : 

 flowers showy yellow, on a pedicel the length of the common 

 peduncle : 1 or 2 pedicelled orange-coloured glandules at the 

 divisions of the peduncle. Sepals unequal, subrotund, concave. 

 Petals unequal ; the two smallest clawed, oblongo-spathulate ; 

 the largest one dimidiate- or falcato-oblong. Stamens, 5 of them 

 with fertile anthers. Ovary linear, compressed, curved, glab- 

 rous. Legumes linear, compressed, glabrous, about 20-seeded. 



10. Cassia fulgens. Showy -flowered Cassia. 



Leaflets 8 10-paired obovato-oblong narrowing 

 and unequilateral at the base rounded with a minute 

 awn at the apex subglabrous, glandules, one between 

 the two lowest pairs of leaflets, racemes 3-6-flowered 

 somewhat longer than the leaf. 



C. crista, Jacq. Ic. Rar. I. 74 ? 



HAB. Common, Port- Royal mountains. 



FL. June November. 



A shrubby tree, 816 feet in height : branches subterete, 

 pubescent towards their extremities. Leaves about 3 inches 

 in length : leaflets rounded, with a minute awn at the apex, 

 narrowing and unequilateral towards the base, glabrous, except 

 the lower third of the under surface of the midrib, which is 

 pubescent : petiole as well as the petiolule pubescent. Stipules 

 2 an inch in length, setaceo-subulate, pubescent, deciduous. 

 Glandules, one between each of the two lowest pairs of leaflets, 

 pedicelled, ovate, acute. Raceme axillary, towards the ends of 



