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Descriptive Flora 



hairs. Flowers as in Cassia given above. Pods flat, almost 

 straight, sparsely hairy, about two inches long. Usually on 

 poor, dry hillsides and rich ledges of limestone rocks. May to 

 fall. 



Chamaecrista cinerea (C. & S.) Pollard. Sensitive Pea. 



Partridge Pea. 



Plant with orange-yellow, 5-petaled flowers, flat pods about 

 2" long, once-pinnately compound leaves, and erect or spreading 

 stems branching from a woody base. Leaves once-pinnately com- 

 pound, about 1" long, nearly as broad, consisting of 10 to 20 pairs 

 of sensitive leaflets. Leaflets narrow, about %" long, somewhat 

 sickle-shaped, and having a minute reddish, cup-shaped gland 

 below the lowest pair. Flowers about 1" across, orange-yellow, 

 solitary on slender axillary pedicels, 1 to IV2" long. Stamens 10, 

 unequal. Pods flat, 1 to 2" long and slightly over */g" wide. 

 March to June. In sandy soil. 



Parkinsonia aculeata L. ' ' Eetama. ' ' Parkinsonia. 



Noticeable, bright-flowered, high shrub or small tree with 

 spiny green-stemmed branches and drooping feathery foliage. 

 Leaves pinnately compound, with a long flattened axis edged 

 with tiny, flat leaflets that soon fall off. Flowers yellow, in 

 elongated, drooping clusters. Petals five, yellow, one with red 

 dots at base and turning orange with age. Stamens ten. Pods 

 narrow, two to four inches long, constricted between the seeds 

 and hanging from the younger branches and twigs. This plant 

 has the peculiar habit of blossoming at intervals following heavy 

 rains. Prefers moist situations, noticeably banks of streams. 

 It is introduced here, probably. 



KRAMERIACEAE. Krameria Family. 



Krameria secundiflora DC. Krameria. Sandbur. 



Odd, wine-red or reddish purple, star-pointed flowers run- 

 ning over stony hillsides. The silky, hairy prostrate stems branch 



