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the uppermost pair, which are very small. Ovary arcuate, in- 
curved, cylindrical, puberulous. Legume ? 
I regret omitting to examine the fruit of this species. Swartz 
merely describes it as short and compressed. 
9. Cassia biflora. Two-flowered Cassia. 
Leaflets 6— 8-paired ovali-oblong or obovate mucro- 
nate subglabrous, with a pedicelled conical glandule 
between the lowest pair, peduncles axillary two toge- 
ther, each 2-flowered shorter than the leaf. 
C. fruticosa, foliis minoribus obovatis, floribus geminis s. 
bigeminatis, Browne , Jam. 22 3. — C. minor, siliquis planis, 
Plum. ed. Burnt, t. 78. f. 1. — C. biflora, Sims, But. Mag. 810. 
HAB. Common on the Windward road. 
FL. October — December. 
A shrub, 3-5 feet in height : branchlets terete, glabrous. 
Leaflets usually 7-paired, petiolulated, somewhat obovate to- 
wards the base, glabrous: petiole channelled above, minutely 
puberulous. Stipules deciduous. Peduncles axillary, two to- 
gether, filiform, about an inch in length, each 2-flovvered : 
flowers showy yellow, on a pedicel the length of the common 
peduncle : 1 or 2 pedicelled orange-coloured glandules at the 
divisions of the peduncle. Sepals unequal, subrotund, concave. 
Petals unequal ; the two smallest clawed, oblongo-spathulate ; 
the largest one dimidiato- or falcato-oblong. Stamens, 5 of them 
with fertile anthers. Ovary linear, compressed, curved, glab- 
rous. Legumes linear, compressed, glabrous, about 20-seeded. 
10. Cassia fulgens. Showy -flowered Cassia. 
Leaflets 8-10-paired obovato-oblong narrowing 
and unequiiateral at the base rounded with a minute 
awn at the apex subglabrous, glandules, one between 
the two lowest pairs of leaflets, racemes 3-6-flowered 
somewhat longer than the leaf. 
C. crista, Jacq. Ic. Bar. I. 74 ? 
HAB. Common, Port-Royal mountains. 
‘FL. June — November. 
A shrubby tree, 8-16 feet in height: branches subterete, 
pubescent towards their extremities. Leaves about 3 inches 
in length: leaflets rounded, with a minute awn at the apex, 
narrowing and unequiiateral towards the base, glabrous, except 
the lower third of the under surface of the midrib, which is 
pubescent : petiole as well as the petiolule pubescent. Stipules 
\ an inch in length, setaceo-subulate, pubescent, deciduous. 
Glandules, one between each of the two lowest pairs of leaflets, 
pedicelled, ovate, acute. Raceme axillary, towards the ends of 
