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3 — ^"' lt. Racemi terminales et axillares; pednnculns com- 

 munis folium snbdnplo superans, compresso-angulatus, pube 

 parca strigosus, a medio floriferus; bractea stipulis similli- 

 ma, sublongior, sub anthesi persistens; pedicelli compresso- 

 filiformes, pnberuli, inferiores subpollicares, Flores circ. 8, 

 raagnitudine Cassiae corymbosae. Sepala angusto - oblonga, 

 subglabra. Petala caljcem satis superautia, ex obovato in- 

 aeqnalia, superiora falcato - curvata. Stam. 10, quorum 3 

 enroma sterilia, 4 media et 1 infimum fertilia majora, anthe- 

 ris quadrangnlari-prismaticis, lanceolatis, brevi apiculatisj 

 2 inferiora lateralia ceteris majora similia. Leg. ignotum. 



Habitu similis Cassiae biflorae quapropter et inter Chamae- 

 sennas reeensui; primo adspecta diversa floribus racemosis. 



59. C, spinescens Hffmg. (in Hrb. W. 7960) 



Frntex ridetar. Rami angnlati , subglabri. Folia sparsa, 

 basi spinis 2 stipularibus recurvatis compressis basi crassis 

 2'" Igis. stipata. Petiolus semiteres, supra canaliculatns, se- 

 tnla decidna instrnctus, glaber, 4 — 5'" lg.; foliola 5 — 6- 

 jiiga, petiolulata, ovata aut ovato - oblonga , basi parnm cor- 

 dat^, ant rotundata, acuminata ant acnta, glaberrima, mem- 

 brauacea, reticulato- nervosa, supra intense viridia, subtus 

 pallida, 1 — 3" lg. Glandula cylindrica acuta inter omnia 

 paria, et supra petioli basin. Racemi (in specimine unico, 

 tantum) axillares; pedunculus folium superans, crassatus, e 

 tereti compressus, snpra medium parnm tennior floriferus, sul- 

 catns; pedicelli compressi, primo ferrugineo - tomentosi , circ. 

 pollicares. Flores magnit. circ. Cassiae glaucae. Sepala sub- 

 ovata, obtusinscula , subglabra, majora circ. 4"' lg., exte- 

 riora subdimidio breviora. Fetala calycem multo superantia, 

 obovato -oblonga, inaequalia, extus pubescentia. Stam. 10; 

 7 fertilia; 3 inferiora filamentis compressis fusco sericeo-to- 

 mentosis sepala superantibus , antheris quadrangulari - prisma- 



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