LEGUMINOS^. 345 



of the branches, short. Flowers numerous, yellow, on filiform 

 pubescent pedicels, about an inch in length. Sepals unequal, 

 bluntish, more or less puberulous and ciliated. Petals clawed ; 

 one of them larger than the rest, oblong, concave, difformed, 

 twisted, with one side having the appearance of being eroded 

 by insects. Stamens, the three outermost distinct, smaller 

 than the rest, abortive, with the cells of their anthers longitudi- 

 nally slit open, but empty ; the remaining seven with large 

 quadrato-linear puberulous anthers, slightly incurved at the 

 apex, opening by two minute pores. Ovary stipitate, curved, 

 glabrous : style short : stigma simple. Legume about 9 inches 

 long, flattened, slightly curved, with the apex rostrate and 

 hooked, slightly tumid along the sutures, glabrous, black when 

 ripe, many-seeded : seeds separated by transverse partitions, 

 vertical, small in proportion, oblong, flattened, smooth, of a 

 brownish colour. 



This is a very common tree along the sea coast in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Kingston, and affords the principal supply of fire- 

 wood for the use of the inhabitants of that city. 



SECT. 6. Sepals bluntish. Petals subequal. Sta- 

 mens 5-10, subequal, all of them fertile : anthers 

 birimose at the apex. Legumes piano-compress- 

 ed : seeds vertical. 



14. Cassia viscosa. Viscid Cassia. 



Leaflets 2-paired elliptic apiculated unequal at the 

 base minutely puberulous beneath, stipules subulate, 

 petioles with a subulate glandule between the lowest 

 pair of leaflets and an aristate glandule between the 

 terminal pair, branches and legumes glanduloso-hir- 

 sute, raceme terminal. 



H. B. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Am. VI. 360. 



HAB. Liguanea not common. 



FL. October December. 



Suffrutescent erect, 1-2 feet in height : branches terete, 

 hirsute with the hairs capitato-glandulose. Leaflets shortly pe- 

 tiolulated, glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath : petiole 

 hirsute with glanduloso-capitate hairs, bearing a minute subu- 

 late bristly glandule between each pair of leaflets. Stipules 

 subulate : racemes terminal, short, about 5-flowered. Flowers 

 small, yellow, shortly pedicelled. A small ovate acute hirsute 

 bractea at the insertion of the pedicel, and a minute subopposite 

 pair about the middle. Sepals unequal ; externally hirsute ; 2 

 of them obtuse ; 3 narrower and subacute. Petals subequal, 

 spathulate, veined. Stamens 5, unequal, but all of them appa- 

 rently perfect ; anthers biporose at the apex. Ovary compress- 



