348 CALYCIFLOIUE. 



petiole about 2 inches in length, angulose, pubescent. Glandule 

 situated on the petiole close to the lowest pair of leaflets, sessile, 

 cup-shaped. Stipules lanceolate, attenuated, auriculated at the 

 base on the lower edge, longitudinally nerved, ciliated. Flowers 

 rather small, yellow, pedicelled, supra-axillary, of an inch in 

 length, about 4 together, sometimes two or three on a common 

 short peduncle. Bracteas lanceolate, attenuated, acuminate, cili- 

 ated, at the base of the pedicels ; and a similar pair below the 

 calyx. Calycine sepals sub-unequal, lanceolate, acute, ciliated, 

 pilose. Petals sub-unequal. Stamens 10 : anthers biporose. 

 Ovary compressed, sericeo-villous : style hooked : stigma look- 

 ing towards the torus, capitato-depressed. Legume an inch or 

 more in length, apiculated with a small persistent portion of 

 the style, pilose, 9-seeded : seeds rhomboidal, compressed. 



I have given the specific name from the beautiful bright 

 green of the leaflets. 



19. Cassia pygmaea. Pigmy Cassia. 



Prostrate, leaves 4-7-paired, branches subglabrous, 

 leaflets linear mucronate, petioles pubescenti-hairy 

 bearing a pedicelled glandule near the base, pedicels 

 solitary axillary 1 -flowered longer than the leaf bi- 

 bracteated above the middle, legumes pubescenti- 

 hirsute. 



C. repens, Swartz, Obs. 161. C. pygmsea, Bertero, De Cand. 

 Prod. II. 502. 



HAB. Pastures, Liguanea. 



FL. After the October rains. 



Stem prostrate, filiform, glabrous, sub-ramose. Leaflets 

 2-4 lines in length, minutely serrulato-ciliated : petiole pubes- 

 cent at the base. Stipules ovato-lanceolate, sub-ciliated. Flowers 

 axillary, solitary, peduncled : peduncle at first shorter, after- 

 wards longer than the leaf, 1 -flowered, filiform, glabrous, bear- 

 ing a pair of lanceolate bracteas above the middle. Calycine 

 sepals subequal, lanceolate, deciduous. Ovary appresso-seri- 

 ceous : stigma obtuse. Legume hairy. 



20. * Cassia virgata. Twiggy Cassia. 



Erect, leaflets 10-paired ovato-lanceolate mucronate 

 villous beneath, glandule pedicelled beneath the 

 lowest pair, pedicels 1 -flowered axillary double the 

 length of the petiole hairy. 



Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. 728. 



HAB. ? 



. FL. ? 



