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CALYCIFLO R./E. 
12. Cassia occidental is. Common Cassia. 
Leaflets 5-paired ovato-lanceolate scabro-ciliated, 
a thick glandule at the base of the petiole, peduncles 
short 2-4-flowered axillary and terminal, legumes 
piano-compressed with the sutures calloso-tumidu- 
lous. 
Senna occidentalis, odore opii viroso, glabra, Sloane, II. t. 
175. f. 3 et 4. — Cassia herbacea, major erecta ramosa, Browne, 
'll. 24.- — C. occidentalis, Swartz, Obs. 159. 
HAB. Common in the plains. 
FL. Tbroughout the year. 
An erect shrub, 3-4 feet in height : branches few, simple, 
angulose, with two furrows passing down from each side of the 
insertion of each petiole, slightly scabrous from minute subu- 
late curved asperities situated in the furrows. Leaflets shortly 
petiolulated, mucronate : petiole anguloso-sulcated, channelled 
above, with a sessile glandule near the insertion. Stipules 
lanceolato-falcate. Racemes axillary and terminal, short, usu- 
ally 3-flowered. Flowers yellow, pedicelled, each furnished at 
the insertion with a lanceolate bractea. Pedicels half an inch 
in length, puberulous. Legume 4-5 inches long. 
This very common weed has the character of being medici- 
nal. A decoction of the root is said to be diuretic; and that 
of the leaves, taken internally, and applied externally, to be 
useful in the cure of itch, and other cutaneous diseases, in the 
human subject, and of mange in dogs and horses. The Negroes 
employ it in the preparation of their baths and fomentations ; 
and apply the leaves, smeared with a little candle grease, to 
slight sores, as a substitute for adhesive plaster. 
13. Cassia emarginata. JEmarginate-leaved Cassia. 
Leaflets 2-4-paired elliptic subemarginate or 
rounded with a small awn at the apex glabrous above 
pubescent beneath, petioles eglandulose, racemes axil- 
lary crowded. 
C. minor, Sloane, II. t. 180. f. 1-4. — C. emarginata, Swartz, 
Obs. 15 7. 
HAB. Common in dry savannahs, especially along the 
Windward road. 
FL. April — June. 
A shrubby tree, 10-15 feet in height, with spreading 
branches, bearing the leaves at their extremities. Leaflets pe- 
tiolulated, rounded at the base, incano-pubescent beneath and ci- 
liated, nerved, about an inch in length : petiole subterete, as 
well as the petiolules pubescenti-hirsute. Stipules setaceo-sub- 
ulate. Racemes axillary, crowded with the leaves at the ends 
