LEGUMINOSZ-CHASALPINIER. lzl1 
size and form, and the petioles often bear cupuliform or peltate 
glands. The flowers are sometimes solitary, or few together, axil- 
lary, sometimes in axillary or terminal simple racemes. More rarely 
Cassia (Cathartocarpus) Fistula (Purging Cassia). 
Fr. 108. 
Habit (2). 
the leaves to which the racemes are axillary, are ill.developed or re- 
placed by bracts towards the ends of the branches, the whole inflores- 
cence becoming a terminal ramified raceme. Each flower is axillary 
to a bract, and is often accompanied by two lateral bractlets. 
Petalostyles labicheoides, an Australian shrub, has alternate impari- 
pinnate leaves,’ and solitary axillary pedunculate flowers, altogether 
like those of Cassia, with five sepals and five petals, both imbricated; 
and an androceum, whose three outer stamens are fertile, while the 
? R. Br., in Append. Sturt Hxped.,17—Bzntu., Fl, Austral., ii. 292.—B, H., Gen., 573, n. 
327.—WaLpP., Ann., ii. 442. 
2 The leaflets are also alternate. 
