156 FLORA OF NEW PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 



C^SALPINACE^ 



Cassia Bahamensis Mill. ''Stinking pea." New Providence 

 Jan. (103). 



Cassia biflora L. Nassau, Jan. Leaflets strongly emarginate 

 (55)- 



Cassia ligustrina L. Common. Nassau, Jan. ; Conch Sound, 

 March (123, 422). Same as Wright 11 90. 



Cassia mimosoides L. Nassau, Jan. Pods 2-2.5 cm. long, very 

 hairy (134). 



Cassia occidentalis L. Nassau, Jan. (105). 



Cassia polyadena DC. Nicol's Town, March. In the pines, 

 strict and unbranched, 7-9 cm. in height, not as pubescent as Wright 

 2376. 



Cassia villosa Mill. Nassau, Jan. Determined by Miss Anna 

 Murray Vail at Columbia herbarium (14). 



Cassia Caribaea sp. no v. 



Shrubby, 6-9 dm. in height, stem gray, smooth; leaves 2-3.5 ™' 

 long, with from two to four pairs of leaflets, mostly three ; petiole 2-5 

 mm. long, channeled ; a stipitate gland between the leaflets or slightly 

 below (often wanting between the lowest pair) ; leaflets sessile, ellip- 

 tical, 1.5-2 cm. long, about one-third as wide, unequal and oblique at 

 the base, apex mucronate, margin entire, thickish, glabrous, shining 

 above, resinous-dotted below ; veins numerous, parallel and prominent ; 

 stipules about 3 mm. in length, subulate, subspinescent, ribbed and 

 often with appressed white hairs on the margin, persistent; flowers 

 large, solitary, axillary; peduncle 2-3 cm. long; calyx deciduous: 

 sepals lanceolate, acuminate, about i cm. long, the three outer ones 

 keeled, keel pilose, petals yellow, oblanceolate or obovate, nearly 

 twice as long as the sepals and about i cm. in width ; stamens 10, the 

 three upper difform, anthers linear, puberulous along the furrow, 

 bursting at the top by two short clefts ; ovary about 5 mm. in length, 

 shorter than the flattened style and covered with appressed white 

 hairs; legume purplish brown, linear-oblong, 3-5.5 cm. long, 5-7 mm. 

 wide, bivalved, compressed, mucronate, with a few scattered hairs: 

 seeds about eight, oblong, compressed. 



Collected in the coppet at Fresh Creek, Andros, June 10, most 

 closely related to C. lineata Sw. (638). 



Plate 6. Cassia Caribcea. Portions of plant, natural size; i, leaflet. 



