leguminosa:. 
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of the branches, short. Flowers numerous, yellow, on filiform 
pubescent pedicels, about an inch in length. Sepals unequal, 
bluntish, more or less puberulous and ciliated. Petals clawed ; 
one of them larger than the rest, oblong, concave, diflformed, 
twisted, with one side having the appearance of being eroded 
by insects. Stamens, the three outermost distinct, smaller 
than the rest, abortive, with the cells of their anthers longitudi- 
nally slit open, but empty ; the remaining seven with large 
quadrato-linear puberulous anthers, slightly incurved at the 
apex, opening by two minute pores. Ovary stipitate, curved, 
glabrous : style short : stigma simple. Legume about 9 inches 
long, flattened, slightly curved, with the apex rostrate and 
hooked, slightly tumid along the sutures, glabrous, black when 
ripe, many-seeded: seeds separated by transverse partitions, 
vertical, small in proportion, oblong, flattened, smooth, of a 
brownish colour. 
This is a very common tree along the sea coast in the neigh- 
bourhood of Kingston, and affords the principal supply of fire- 
wood for the use of the inhabitants of that city. 
Sect. 6. Sepals bluntish. Petals subequal. Sta- 
mens 5- 10, subequal, all of them fertile : anthers 
birimose at the apex. Legumes piano-compress- 
ed : seeds vertical. 
14. Cassia viscosa. Viscid Cassia. 
Leaflets 2-paired elliptic apiculated unequal at the 
base minutely puberulous beneath, stipules subulate, 
petioles with a subulate glandule between the lowest 
pair of leaflets and an aristate glandule between the 
terminal pair, branches and legumes glanduloso-hir- 
sute, raceme terminal. 
H. 13. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. Am. VI. 360. 
HAB. Liguanea — not common. 
FL. October — December. 
Suffrutescent erect, 1-2 feet in height: branches terete, 
hirsute with the hairs capitato-glandulose. Leaflets shortly pe- 
tiolulated, glabrous above, minutely puberulous beneath : petiole 
hirsute with glanduloso-capitate hairs, bearing a minute subu- 
late bristly glandule between each pair of leaflets. Stipules 
subulate: racemes terminal, short, about 5-flowered. Flowers 
small, yellow, shortly pedicelled. A small ovate acute hirsute 
bractea at the insertion of the pedicel, and a minute subopposite 
pair about the middle. Sepals unequal ; externally hirsute; 2 
of them obtuse; 3 narrower and subacute. Petals subequal, 
spathulate, veined. Stamens 5, unequal, but all of them appa- 
rently perfect ; anthers biporose at the apex. Ovary compress* 
