LEG UMINOSJE- CJES. I LI' J XI K. I). 



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size and form, and the petioles often bear cupuliform or peltate 

 glands. The flowers are sometimes solitary, or few together, axil- 

 lary, sometimes in axillary or terminal simple racemes. More rarely 



Cassia (Cathartocarpus) Fistula (Purging Cassia). 



Fig. 103. 

 Habit (|). 



the leaves to which the racemes are axillary, are ill developed or re- 

 placed by bracts towards the ends of the branches, the whole inflores- 

 cence becoming a terminal ramified raceme. Each flower is axillary 

 to a bract, and is often accompanied by two lateral bractlets. 



Petalostyles labicheoides? an Australian shrub, has alternate impari- 

 pinDate leaves, 2 and solitary axillary pedunculate flowers, altogether 

 like those of Cassia, with five sepals and five petals, both imbricated; 

 and an androceum, whose three outer stamens are fertile, while the 



1 R. Bb., in Append. Blurt Exped., 17.— Bentic, Fl. Austral., ii. 21)2. — B. II., Gen., .",73. n. 

 327.— Walp., Ann., ii. 1 12. 



2 The leaflets are also alternate. 



