(94) 
Cassia subelliptica sp. nov. 
Glabrate Foner green, spreading; stipules 5-6 mm. long, 
thin, inaequi erally lance-oblong, acute, caducous; petioles 
(of upper le sea 2.5-4 cm. long, the remaining portion 5-10 cm 
long; leaflets 3-6 pairs, ey pease 2 ee ae of a 
upper leaves 2-4 cm. long, 8-16 mm. broad, eachin 
10 cm. long and 4 cm. broad, very ices oe elie es 
more or less oblique at the base, mucronulate, thin, the venation 
slender and rather inconspicuous, oS reticulate, the 8-10 
filaments; pistil about equalling the larger erie the style about 
as long as the pilose falcate ovary, the s aes - inflexed stigma 
shorter, its summit slightly involute; fruit not s 
“Slender, 8 fit. high; Sorata, 7500 it., Sept. 1, rgo1”’ (No. 2383). 
Species related to the preceding, and near C. birostris Domb. 
Cassia pazensis sp. nov. 
Youngest easy lightly pilose, outa glabrous; branchlets 
stout, costate, very leafy or sharply nodose from leaf-scars; stipules 
m. long, ea acuminate, er strong mid-rib, decidu- 
ous; cee 4-8 cm. long, the petioles short and s tout; leaflets 
long, 5-1 broad, elliptical, mucronate, pale, thick, with very 
stout mid-rib, the secondaries very numerous a > Ta- 
cemes terminal, small, few-flowere e peduncles and pedicels 
mm. long; largest sepals 7 mm. long, 5.5 mm. broad, elliptical, 
thickish, yellowish-green; flower 2 cm. ‘broad, the petals thickish, 
eep-yellow, very veiny; longer filaments 3 mm. long, stout, their 
pene rather onger, strongly curved; pica jak strongly 
curved, pilose, dark-colored, about 7 mm. long, the stipe and 
stout style of ae hee equal length; stipe of legume about 8 mm 
long, stout, the legume 3.5-7 cm. long, 12-18 mm. broad, 6-8 
seeded, thick with thickened margins; seed 7 mm. radon a third 
as broad, obovoid, not, or little compressed, smooth, brow 
“Up to 6 ft. high; La Paz, 11,500 ft., Aug. 21, 1901” a Seas: 
This is the same as Bang’s No. 1985, and probably Alandon’s 751. 
The species is near C. laevigata. 
