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dwarfed shrub along roadsides, and growing twelve to 

 fifteen feet high in undisturbed positions ; large specimens 

 may be noticed on the south Lamaha dam just above the 

 pumping-engine on the Ylissengen Road. It has from 

 four to a dozen pairs of large oblong leaflets, broadly 

 rounded at the end, bright yellow flowers, and long 

 flattened pods marked with cross-lines between each seed. 

 Almost as tall, but slenderer and less branched in its 

 growth, is the miama (Cassia bacillarisj, used to rub 

 stains from clothes. The leaves have only two pairs of 

 broadly ovate and pointed leaflets, and the flowers are large 

 and creamy yellow, succeeded by nearly cylindrical pods. 

 It grows on the Lamaha dam, near the last species, and 

 in many other localities, and is generally conspicuous 

 among the bushes at the top of the Gardens. Two 

 smaller kinds found in town, and common, to give an 

 exact locality, in and about the Kitty Village, are called 

 stinking-weed or stinking-wood from the strong physic- 

 like smeli that has rather unjustly gained the name 

 of carrion-crow bush for Cassia reticulata. The slen- 

 derer kind, Cassia occidentalism has four to eight pairs of 

 rather oval and distinctly pointed leaflets and narrow 

 elongated pods from two to four inches long. The 

 other, commonly called money-bush Cassia bicapsu- 

 laris, has a thick shrubby growth, nearly cylindrical 

 pods from three to eight inches l^ng, and three 

 pairs of oval leaflets, the lowest and smallest pair 

 almost circular, like counters or thin coins. The 

 wing-pod cassia, called ring-worm bush, Cassia alata, 

 has many oblong rounded leaflets, the lowest pair at 

 some distance from the others, and is best distinguished 

 by its four-sided, shortly pointed pods with a membran- 



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