LEGUMINOS.S:. 347 



HAB. Cane-piece intervals, in seasonable districts. 



FL. November. 



Herbaceous, erect, a foot or more in height. Leaflets glab- 

 rous. Flowers rather small, yellow. Calyx bibracteolated ; 

 sepals linear, acute. Legume piano-compressed, about an inch 

 in length. 



17. Cassia pilosa. Hairy Cassia. 



Ascending, leaflets 5-paired lineari-oblong mucro- 

 nate ciliated, petioles eglandulose, branches and pe- 

 tioles hispid with long patent hairs, pedicels 2-4 

 supra-axillary length of the leaf bibracteated at the 

 base. 



Swarfz, Obs. 160. De Cand. Prod. II. 502. 



HAB. Common in Cane-piece intervals. 



FL. November, December. 



Suffruticose, 1-2 feet in length : branches spreading, ascend- 

 ing, rubescent on one side, pilose. Leaflets 4-5 paired, sub- 

 sessile, rounded at the apex and mucronate, subglabrous above, 

 sparingly pilose beneath, ciliated, about an inch in length: pe- 

 tiole pilose, eglandulose. Stipules falcato-lanceolate, ciliated, 

 striated. Common peduncle scarcely any, supra-axillary, soli- 

 tary, dividing into 2-4 filiform l-flo\vered pedicels of the same 

 length as the leaf. Bracteas t\vo, lanceolato-attenuated, cilia- 

 ted, situated at the base of the pedicels : a pair of small ovato- 

 lanceolate ciliated bracteoles at a short distance from the calyx. 

 Sepals sub-equal, oblongo-lanceolate with the apex obtuse and 

 mucronate, pilose. Petals 5, sub-equal, roundish, slightly clawed, 

 concave, with the margin undulated. Stamens 10; of which 

 2 are minute short and sterile ; 3 filiform, capitate ; and 5 sub- 

 equal with fertile anthers. Ovary linear, villous : style short, 

 recurved : stigma simple. Legume an inch and a half in 

 length, piano-compressed, pubescent: seeds about 10. 



18. Cassia smaragdina. Emerald Green Cassia. 



Subprocumbent, leaflets 10-17-paired linear mu- 

 cronate puberulous, petiole pubescent bearing a sessile 

 glandule below the lowest pair of leaflets, pedicels 

 about 4 fasciculate one-flowered supra-axillary, legumes 

 pilose. 



HAB. Common in the mountain districts. 



FL. Great part of the year. 



Stem dividing near the root into several branches ;' branches 

 subsimple, procumbent near the base, afterwards ascending, 

 terete, pubescent. Leaflets ciliated, parallelly veined : common 



