LEGUMINOS^E. 349 



Shrubby, 2-3 feet in height : branches virgate, flexuose, pu- 

 bescent. Leaflets sessile, villous with the hairs flavo-virescent. 

 Flowers rather large, fulvous. Sepals lanceolate, pubescent. 

 Legumes linear, compressed, margined, glabrous, many-seeded. 

 Sw. 



21. * Cassia lineata. Lineated Cassia. 



Erect, leaflets 5-paired oblong obtuse mucronulated 

 pubescent beneath glabrous above as also the branches 

 and petioles, glandule sessile at the base of the pe- 

 tiole, pedicels axillary and lateral 1 -flowered, legumes 

 hairy. De Cand. 



Swartz, FL Ind. Occ. 726. 



HAB. Common, Swartz. 



FL. ? 



Stem suffruticose, 1-3 feet in height, glabrous. Leaflets 

 pubescent beneath. Flowers rather large, yellow. Legume 

 2-5 inches in length, linear, acinaciform, compressed, margined, 

 hairy : seeds 1012, subrotund, slightly compressed. It ap- 

 proaches, according to Swartz, to C. PILOSA. 



LI. HYMENJEA. Locust-Tree. 



Calyx bibracteolated at the base, 5-partite (some- 

 times 4-partite from 2 of the lobes being united into 

 one). Petals 5, subequal, glandulose. Stamens 10, 

 distinct. Legume woody, 1 -celled, fariniferous, 

 many-seeded : embryo straight. 



Trees. Leaves bifoliate It is named after Hymen the 

 god of Marriage, from the leaves growing in pairs. 



1. Hymensea Courbaril. Leathery-leaved Locust- 

 Tree. 



Leaflets leathery indistinctly veined, unequal at 

 the base oblong shortly and obtusely acuminate, pani- 

 cle with the flowers peduncled, legumes not tubercu- 

 lated. 



Browne, 221. Lam. III. t. 330. f. 1 Dec. leg. Mem. XII. 



t. 26. f. 120. 



HAB. Common in Liguanea, and in the Plains of St Eliza- 

 beth. 



FL. July. 



A lofty spreading tree. Extremities of the branchlets terete, 

 marked with ferruginous reticulated prolonged scales. Leaves 



