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the brandies, somewhat longer than the leaf : peduncle pu- 
bescent: pedicels about an inch in length, the four lowest in 
pairs, accompanied with a glandule similar to those of the 
petiole. Sepals unequal (the two innermost the largest), 
roundish, concave. Petals large, showy, more or less concave, 
veined. Stamens, the 3 largest with anthers arcuate, elongato- 
filiform at the apex, with the pore 2-lipped, single, hiant ; the 
4 central stamens with filaments short and thick, and anthers 
large, recurved at the apex, biporose, filled with bright yellow 
pollen ; the remaining 3 stamens small, abortive. Ovary pedi- 
celled, linear, arcuate, albido-villous with appressed hairs: style 
short : stigma simple. Legume pedicelled, linear, glabrous. 
14-16-seeded. 
11. Cassia arborea. Lofty Cassia. 
Leaflets 6-paired oblong rounded at both ends 
emarginate and mucronulated at the apex puberu- 
lous and pailido-glaucescent beneath, racemes ter- 
minal panic led, legumes plane. 
0. setigera, De Cand. Prod. II. 499. — C. gigantea, Bertero , 
De Cand. Prod. II. 492. 
HAB. Cultivated at the Botanic Garden, St Andrew’s, and 
elsewhere. 
FL. Autumn. 
A tree 30 feet in height, pyramidal in its growth. Leaflets 
shortly petioluled, glabrous above, minutely puberulous and 
glaucescent beneath : petiole pubescent. Stipules none. Ra- 
cemes terminal, panicled ; common peduncle sub-compressed, 
angulose, villoso-pubescent ; its divisions generally in pairs, 
sub-simple, spreading : pedicels an inch in length, compressed, 
villoso-puberulous, furnished at the base with a small subulate 
deciduous bractea. Flowers numerous, showy, yellow. Caly- 
cine sepals, the 2 outermost opposite, smaller than the rest, 
thickish ; the three inner larger, thinner, and of lighter yellow; 
all of them roundish, concave, puberulous, ciliated, spreading. 
Petals, two of them larger than the rest, and one smaller ; all 
of them roundish, obovate, concave, clawed, ciliated, rounded 
and undulato-crisped at the apex. Stamens, the three lowest 
small, abortive ; the four intermediate in pairs, with fertile 
2-pored anthers ; the three uppermost, two of them very large 
and fertile, and the one between them abortive, and of the 
same size as the intermediate. Ovary compressed, channelled 
on the sides, puberulous : style terete, glabrous, hooked : stigma 
on the under surface of the arched portion of the style, niveo- 
pubescent. Legume about 8 inches long and ^ an inch in 
breadth, piano-compressed, many-celled by transverse septa 2 : 
seeds numerous, vertical. 
