206 LEGUMINOS^. 



60. LEBIDIBIA, DC. 



Calyx-tube tnrbinate, persistent : limb 5-partite, nearly equal. Petals 5. Stamens 10. 

 ' Stigma minately capitate, concave, glabrous. Legume^ broadly oblong, laterally incurved, 

 flatly compressed, sUgbtly convex on tbe outer, concave on the inner side, many-seeded, 

 wingless, sessile : seeds separated by cellular tissue.— A tree ; leaves dipinnate : pinna; mm- 

 paired, alrwiitly pinnate ; ^aveti white, in contracted, compound racemes: branches /eio- 

 ^bwered: T^iicels jointed at the lose and at the top, destitute of bracts. 



143. Ii. coriaria, Schlecht.—Jac^. Amer.Pict. t. 260./. 33. Eumh. Mimos. t. 45.— 



Poinciana, Jacj. Csesalpinia, Sumb. 20'-^0' high, unarmed, glabrous, with the petioles 



jlj^i puberulous or ■ glabrescent ; pinuse 15-9: leaflets 24-16-jugal, oblong-linear, blunt, 



^ dotted with a series of black dots beneath ; petals as long as the calyx, spathulate, 2'" long ; 



legume %"-\V long, 9"'-10"' broad, rounded at the top, 8-6-seeded. — Hab. Jamaica I, 



Macf. ; Trinidad I, Or. ; [Haiti and Mexico ! to Venezuela I]. 



61. PELTOPHORUM, Fog. 



' Calyx S -partite ; segments nearly equal or the inferior larger. Petals 5, Stamens 10, 

 hirsute at the base, included. Stigma broadly peltate, glabrous. Legume oblong, flatly 

 "compressed, few- or 1-seeded, wingless, stipitate : valves connected by cellular tissue. — ^Unarmed 

 trees; \iw&% abnipth) bipinnate ; ia.cem.es itsiially paniculate. 



i44. P. Iiinnsei, Benth. I Pirnnce i-jugal : leaflets &-8-jugal, semiovate -oblong or 

 oval, bluntish, slighliy puberulous or glabrescent, shortly petiolulate : petioles and racemes 

 puberulousj pedicels short; "calyx-segments lacerate on the margin, the inferior larger, 

 fimbriate ;" legume 4-2-seeded, broadly oblong, blunt, acute at the shortly stipitate base. — 

 Osesalpinia brasiliensis, Z. e Jamaica ; Sw., Macf. ! — A low tree ; wood orange-coloured ; 

 leaflets 18"'-8"' long; "flowers small, ydlDw:" pedicels 3'" long ; legume 3"-3i'' long, 

 14"'-12"' broad, glabrous : stalk 3'" long : seeds roundish, compressed. — Has. Jamaica I, 

 Macf., on dry, calcareous soil. 



145. P. adnatum, 6r. {n.sp.). Pinnts ^-^t-jugal: leaflets Z6-\&-fa,gal, oblong- 



. linear or linear, blunt, broadly adnate at the base, rusty-pubescent beneath : petioles, 

 inflorescence, and calyx rusty-tomentose ; panicle lax, oorymbiform: pedicels long ; calyx 

 much exceeded by the corolla : segments nearly equal, entire ; legume . . . . — Pinnse 6"'-8"' 



.distant from each other, opposite! leaflets opposite, shiuing-gkbrous above, somewhat 

 revolute on the margin, equilateral, spreading, adnate to the rhachis by their whole breadth, 

 3"'-2"' long, l"'-i'" broad;- panicle dichotomously divided into racemes at and above the 



, base : pedicels 5-10 on each branch, spreading, 8'" long ; calyx imbricate, 3'" long ; tube 



; minute, turbinate: segments obovste; petals broadly obovate, subentire, the largest 8'" long, 

 twice as long as the stamens ; filaments densely rusty-pilose at the base, as long as the style : 

 anthers ovate-oblong, incumbent, introrse ; ovary rusty-viUous, 4-ovulate : stigma abruptly 

 enlarged, glabrous, -f'" broad. — Hab, Bahamas 1, Swains. 



62. CASSIA, Z. 



Sepals 5, subdistinct, deciduous. Petals 5. Stamens 10 (-5) : 3 superior often difform 

 or abortive : anther-cells dehiscent by pores or incomplete clefts. Zegume compressed or 

 cylindrical, dry or filled with pulp, often many-celled, with spurious dissepiments. Embryo 

 straight. — ^Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets opposite ; flowers mostly yellow. 



Sect. 1, Fistula. — Stameni 10, fertile : anthers ovate-oblong, bursting above with incom- 

 plete clefts (or at the base withporesj. Zegume cylindrical or nearly so, indehiscent, 

 '. many-celled, mostly filled with pulp : seeds compressed, parallel to the dissepiments. — 

 Trees j flowers racemose, large. 



• I 146*. O. Fistula, Z. Leaflets i-S-jugal, ovate-oblong, bluntish (rarely acuminate), 



f glabrescent : petiole eglandular ; racemes lax, drooping; pedicels long, ebracteate ; legume 

 cylindrical, smooth, glabrous. — Tuss. Fl. 4. t. 2. Desc. Fl. 2. <. 125. — Leaflets 4-5", 

 sepals 2"'-4"', petals 8"'-12"', legume 2'-l' long.— Hab. Naturalized in Jamaica 1, Macf., 

 Dist., and in the Caribbean Islands '! ; [Mexico I to Brazil I ; trop. Africa I to Egypt ! ; East 

 Indies! to China!]. 



