L62 >NTRIBUTIONB FROM Till. NATIONAL BERBABIUM. 



1 1. Cassia glandulosn I 

 I rban, 



A herbaceous or suffruteecent planl 0.5 i" 1 •'» meters high; leaves ■'• i" B cm. long; 

 leaflets oblong-linear, membranous; peduncle 1 t . . 3-flowered; Bepals I cm. long; petals 

 1.5 i" 2 cm. long, yellow ; stamens red; legume ."> i" • ; cm. long, •"> to "'» mm. wide. 



In Bandy districts near Bayamon; Sierra de Naguabo, on the rocks on Mount 

 Piedra Palada and on the banks of the Rio Blanco; between Aibonito and Algarrobo, 

 along roads; between Aibonito and Coamo, on precipices; near CJtuado, on declivities 

 at Pellejas and ai liameyes and in rocky districts al I.— Angeles; near Sabana < rrande, 

 on the banks of the River Estero; near Arecibo. Cuba Richard), Jamaica, St. Croix, 

 Si. Martin (Stockholm Herbarium), Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, St. Vincent, 

 Bequia K<w Bull. no. 81, |>. 248), Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad (Grisebach 

 Tropical South America: Brazil, Guiana, Colombia. 



Cassia glandulosa lias often (as by Linnaeus himself) been confounded with other 

 Bpecies, bul ii can be distinguished from Cassia chamaecrista in thai its petiole fcx 

 Btipitate gland between the lowest pair of Leaflets (and sometimi b several below the 

 upper pairs and in thai the pain of Leaflets arc usually much more numerous. I 

 clniiitih crista has sessile depressed glands. 



Local name, tamarindillo, hediondUla. 



L5. Cassia mirabilis (Poll.) I'rb. 

 (Urban, 276.) 



Stem Buffrutescent, glabrous; Leaves pinnate, 2 cm. Long; petiole L.5 cm. long, with 

 two Btipitate glands; leaflets 1<> to L7-jugate, 5 nun. long, 1 nun. wide, oblong, rounded 

 at 1m, Hi ends, papyraceous, glabrous on both sid<*. shortly petiolulate, mucronate; 

 si ipules lanceolate acuminate, :'> nun. Long; flowers yellow; legumes 2 to l'.o cm. Long, 

 3 nun. wide, brown, glabrous, papyraceous, apiculate. 



Near Manati, in sandy soil mi the edge of Tortuguero Lagoon at Campo Alegre; 

 between "Manati and Vega Baja in sandy soil: near Dorado, in the meadows of the 

 coast. 



lii. Cassia nictitans L. 



Urban, 276. 1 



Annual, herbaceous or suffrutescenl . pubescent . with curved hairs, or glabrescenl : 

 leaflets L2 to 25-i rarely 5- ! jugate, 0. l to I cm. long, oblong-linear, mucronulate, Blightly 

 oblique al the base, penninerved, striate with veins: petiole bearing a Btipitate gland 

 below the lowest pair: stipules exceeding the insertion point of the gland, acuminate 

 from a Lanceolate, oblique base; peduncle L-(to3-) flowered, much exceeded by the 

 Leaves; Btamens 5 to 7 (or even l<» : Legume bearing scattered curved hairs: petals 0.6 

 to B cm. Long. Variable in tin- petiolar glands, which arc Long-stipitate or subees- 

 Bile. 



Near Bayamon; mar Santurce; near Juncos, on Mount Santo do Leon; near Maunabo, 

 at Punta de la Tuna: near Aibonito, on precipices toward Coamo; near Coamo, in 

 meadows between Serillos and Salinas: between Pefiuelas and Tallaboa Aha. on the 

 roadside; near Sabana Grande, on the bank of the Bstero River; near Guanica, in 

 thicket- on the Beashore al < lafio < rordo; near Mayaguez; near Maricao, in pasture-: near 

 Rincon, in the mountains at Calvache. Bahama, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, St. Thomas, 

 St. Kitts. Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, Margarita, Curacao, Mexico, subtrop- 

 ical and temperate Nort h A merica. 



oCook and <'oilins. p. I L3, as < Tiamat crista glandulosa 





