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25. LEGUMINOS^E. 
PL Ind. Or. t. 37. — Shr. per. Mad. cult, reg, 1, |. Garden walls 
and fences about Funchal. Almost at all seasons. — An exten- 
sively climbing matted very prickly shr., with very long weak 
trailing angular straight shoots or branches clothed in every 
part (st., branches, main and partial leaf-stalks) except the rac. 
with short and small but very sharp and strong hooked prickles, 
clinging tenaciously to everything touching it. St. and main 
br. angular smooth ; young shoots, buds, and rachis of 1. pube- 
scent, more or less ferruginous. L. 6-10 in. long ; pinnae 4 or 5 
in. long ; lfts. 8-12 pairs, 9 or 10 lines long, 4 wide, smooth dark 
gr. above, paler beneath. Between each pair of pinnae a prickle 
inclining forwards, all the rest being recurved. Rac. pyramidal 
or oblong 6-12 in. long. FI. rather large 1 in. diam. lemon-y. 
scentless. Sep. petal-like presently reflexed, gr. only in the 
middle, the rest lemon-y. Pet. shortly clawed remote spreading 
lemon-y. ; 4 lower rounded or orbicular entire equal ; 5th or 
uppermost small spreading or reflexed ovate or ovate-oblong, 
often irregularly plicate at the upper edge, its lower half di- 
vergently streaked or spotted with pale reddish or lateritious. 
Fl.-buds nodding like the fl. and pods, ovoid, compressed, the 
lowest sep. larger helmet-shaped imbricate over the 4 upper, all 
velvety-puberulous. Br. and bractlets lanceolate-acuminate 
leaf-like glandular-ciliate or serrulate velvety-puberulous ca- 
ducous, falling some time before the expansion of the fl. Pedic. 
f in. (9 or 10 lines) long slender velvety-puberulous and angu- 
lar like the rachis. Stam. 10 distinct, but combined halfway up 
by their woolly hairs into a thick pyramidal column ; fll. densely 
villose halfway up with white woolly hairs, their upper free part 
smooth pale gr. or y. ; anth. large orange. Ov. silky. Style 
thickish gr. as long as the fll., pubescent, smooth and compressed 
upwards, abruptly truncate and hollow at the tip. Tods rather 
large broad oblong straight compressed minutely puberulous, 
3 in. long, 10 lines broad, simply one-celled and hollow within. 
Seeds 6-8 roundish or subglobose, slightly compressed, pale 
olive-brown mottled with darker. 
A very handsome climbing shr., admirably adapted for fences 
or training along the top of walls, forming with its formidable 
prickles an almost impassable barrier. The seeds were first 
sent to Mad. by Lady Amherst from the Calcutta Garden about 
1824 ; it is now common in or near Funchal. 
ttt30. Cassia L. 
§ I. Chamcefistula DC. Shrubby. Pod rounded subcylindric 
indehiscent , many-celled and slightly pulpy within. Seeds 
horizontal i. e. depressed or flattened vertically. — No 
