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HAD. Cane-piece in tin* vale, in seasonable districts. 
FL. November. 
Herbaceous, erect, a foot or more in height. Leaflets glab- 
rous. Flowers rather small, yellow. Calyx bibraeteolated ; 
sepals linear, acute. Legume piano-compressed, about an inch 
in length. 
1?» Cassia pilosa. Hairy Cassia. 
Ascending, leaflets 5-paired lineari-oblong mucro- 
nate ciliated, petioles eglandulose, branches and pe- 
tioles hispid with long patent hairs, pedicels 2-b 
supra-axillary length of' the leaf bibracteated at the 
base. 
Swartz, Ohs. 160. — Da Cand. Prod. If. 50 2. 
HAB. Common in Cane-piece intervals. 
FL. November, December. 
SufFruticose, 1-2 feet in length : branches spreading, ascend- 
ing, rubescent on one side, pilose. Leaflets 4-5 paired, sub- 
sessile, rounded at the apex and mucronate, subglabrous above, 
sparingly pilose beneath, ciliated, about an inch in length: pe- 
tiole pilose, eglandulose. Stipules falcato-lanceolate, ciliated, 
striated. Common peduncle scarcely any, supra-axillary, soli- 
tary, dividing into 2-4 filiform 1 -flowered pedicels of the same 
length as the leaf. Bracteas two, lanceolato-attenuated, cilia- 
ted, situated at the base of the pedicels : a pair of small ovato- 
Janceolate ciliated bracteoles at a short distance from the calyx. 
Sepals sub-equal, oblongo-lanceolate with the apex obtuse and 
mucronate, pilose. Petals 5, sub-equal, roundish, slightly clawed, 
concave, with the margin undulated. Stamens 10; of which 
2 are minute short and sterile ; 3 filiform, capitate ; and 5 sub- 
equal with fertile anthers. Ovary linear, villous : style short, 
recurved : stigma simple. Legume an inch and a half in 
length, piano-compressed, pubescent: seeds about 10. 
18. Cassia sinaragdina. Emerald Green Cassia. 
Subprocumbent, leaflets 10-17-paired linear mu- 
cronate puberulous, petiole pubescent bearing a sessile 
glandule below the lowest pair of leaflets, pedicels 
about 4 > fasciculate one-flowered supra-axillary, legumes 
pilose. 
HAB. Common in the mountain districts. 
FL. Great part of the year. 
Stem dividing near the root into several branches branches 
subsimple, procumbent near the base, afterwards ascending, 
terete, pubescent. Leaflets ciliated, parallelly veined : common 
