THE BOTANY OF BERMUDA. 69 
C. glauca, Lam. West Indian Ash. 
At Somerville and Par-la-ville. 
C. ligustrina, Linn. 
Common in gardens; distinguishable by the very pointed leading leaf- 
lets, like Privet, whence the name. 
C. occidentalis, Linn. 
An annual weed in some gardens, especially at St. Georges. 
C. corymbosa, Lam. 
Introduced at Mount Langton from the United States, and flowered, 
but, being in a poor soil, is not likely to survive long. 
The only species of Cassia quite naturalized is of a climbing habit, 
locally called the Christmas bush, having but 6 fertile stamens; here 
queried as C. bicapsularis, Linn. ; 
Brownea grandiceps, Jacq. 
Introduced from the West Indies at Mount Langton, 1875, and left 
thriving in 1877, but had not flowered. 
Casparea porrecta, Kth. Napoleon’s plume; often called Bauhinia. 
To be found in gardens; a quick, growing, very ornamental shrub; 
flowers in May or June. 
Bauhinia parviflora, Vahl. 
A tree at the Model Farm, Smith’s Parish; flowers in June. 
Bauhinia Vahlii, Wight. 
A beautiful white flowering variety, introduced from the Botanical 
Gardens, Trinidad, 1874; flowers freely at Mount Langton in June, and 
ripened seed. 
Desmanthus virgatus, Willd. (Desmodium virgatum, Desv.) 
Native ; a shrubby plant to be found along the South road sides, in 
Devonshire Parish. 
Mimosa pudica, Linn. Sensitive plant. 
Raised from seed, and naturalized at Mount Langton. 
Leucena glauca, Benth. Wild mimosa. 
This pest is by no means so generally distributed in Bermuda as its 
extraordinary prolific qualities would have secured if its introduction 
had been at any remote date. It is given without remark by Dr. Rein, 
and is probably of recent introduction ; but as the inhabitants cannot 
