LEGUMINOS^:. 343 



the branches, somewhat longer than the leaf: peduncle pu- 

 bescent : pedicels about an inch in length, the four lowest in 

 pairs, accompanied with a glandule similar to those of the 

 petiole. Sepals unequal (the two innermost the largest), 

 roundish, concave. Petals large, showy, more or less concave, 

 veined. Stamens, the 3 largest with anthers arcuate, elongato- 

 filiform at the apex, with the pore 2-lipped, single, hiant ; the 

 4 central stamens with filaments short and thick, and anthers 

 large, recurved at the apex, biporose, filled with bright yellow 

 pollen ; the remaining 3 stamens, small, abortive. Ovary pedi- 

 celled, linear, arcuate, albido-villous with appressed hairs : style 

 short : stigma simple. Legume pedicelled, linear, glabrous, 

 14-16-seeded. 



11. Cassia arborea. Lofty Cassia. 



Leaflets 6-paired oblong rounded at both ends 

 emarginate and mucronulated at the apex puberu- 

 lous and pallido-glaucescent beneath, racemes ter- 

 minal panicled, legumes plane. 



C. setigera, De Cand. Prod. II. 499. C. gigantea, Bertero, 

 De Cand. Prod. II. 492. 



HAB. Cultivated at the Botanic Garden, St Andrew's, and 

 elsewhere. 



FL. Autumn. 



A tree 30 feet in height, pyramidal in its growth. Leaflets 

 shortly petioluled, glabrous above, minutely puberulous and 

 glaucescent beneath : petiole pubescent. Stipules none. Ra- 

 cemes terminal, panicled ; common peduncle sub-compressed, 

 angulose, villoso-pubescent ; its divisions generally in pairs, 

 sub-simple, spreading : pedicels an inch in length, compressed, 

 villoso-puberulous, furnished at the base with a small subulate 

 deciduous bractea. Flowers numerous, showy, yellow. Caly- 

 cine sepals, the 2 outermost opposite, smaller than the rest, 

 thickish ; the three inner larger, thinner, and of lighter yellow; 

 all of them roundish, concave, puberulous, ciliated, spreading. 

 Petals, two of them larger than the rest, and one smaller ; all 

 of them roundish, obovate, concave, clawed, ciliated, rounded 

 and undulato-crisped at the apex. Stamens, the three lowest 

 small, abortive; the four intermediate in pairs, with fertile 

 2-pored anthers ; the three uppermost, two of them very large 

 and fertile, and the one between them abortive, and of the 

 same size as the intermediate. Ovary compressed, channelled 

 on the sides, puberulous : style terete, glabrous, hooked : stigma 

 on the under surface of the arched portion of the style, niveo- 

 pubescent. Legume about 8 inches long and \ an inch in 

 breadth, piano-compressed, many-celled by transverse septae : 

 seeds numerous, vertical. 



