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CALYCIFLORJE. 
ed : style short: stigma obtuse. Legume linear, compressed, 
glanduloso-birsute, 7-seeded. 
Sect. 7* Sepals acuminate , subequal. Stamens 10 
or fewer by abortion. Anthers oblong , biporose. 
Legumes piano-compressed , dehiscent : seeds ver- 
tical. — Leaves folded up during sleep. 
15. Cassia glandulosa. Broom Cassia. 
Suffruticose erect, leaflets 15-18-paired lineari-ob- 
long mucronate glabrous above puberulous beneath 
and ciliated, petiole rufescenti-pubescent, glandule 
pedicelled close below the lowest pair of leaflets, pe- 
dicels 3-4 supra-axillary fasciculate short 1 -flowered, 
legumes 8-seeded. 
De Cand. Prod. II. 503. — Honker , Bot. Mag. 3435. 
HAB. Common in the mountains. 
FI.-. Greater part of the year. 
Erect, fruticose, about 2 feet in height; brandies alternate, 
subsimple, terete, brownish-hairy, compressed and angular at the 
ends. Leaflets 17-paired, lineari-oblong, mucronate, unequal 
at the base, ciliated, glabrous, and minutely punctulated above, 
rufescenti-puberulous and the nerves coloured beneath. Pe- 
tiole compressed, coloured, rufescenti-puberulous, 2-3 inches 
long. Glandule close below the lowest pair of leaflets, stalked. 
Stipules small, lanceolate with the apex attenuated. Flowers 
3-4 together, on filiform pedicels, supra-axillary. Bracteas 
lanceolate, attenuated, situated at the base of the pedicels. 
Calyx bibracteolated : sepals subequal, lineari- lanceolate, acute, 
pilose on the back. Petals subrotund, clawed, the lowest much 
larger than the rest, obcordate, spreading; the other four 
obovate, concave, erect. Stamens 10; 3 of them long perigy- 
nous, incurved, tinged with blood-colour towards the apex ; two 
very short; the remaining 5 intermediate, yellow: anthers bi- 
porose. Ovary silky-villous, compressed : style incurved, sub- 
ulate : stigma silky. Legumes nearly two inches long, with 
the apex acute, and the margin incrassated, brown-pubescent, 
8-seeded : seeds black, rhomboidal. 
16. Cassia Chamaecrista. Cane-piece sensitive- 
plant. 
Erect, leaflets 10-12-jugate oblongo-linear mucro- 
nate, glandule sessile beneath the lowest pair, pedicels 
2-3 supra-axillary fasciculated shorter than the pe- 
tiole, legumes hispidulous. 
Browne , 225. — Swartz, Obs. 164. 
