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CAI.YCIFLOR.E. 
petiole about 2 inches in length, angulose, pubescent. Glandule 
situated on the petiole close to the lowest pair of leaflets, sessile, 
cup-shaped. Stipules lanceolate, attenuated, auriculated at the 
base on the lower edge, longitudinally nerved, ciliated. Flowers 
rather small, yellow, pedicelled, supra-axillary, ^ of an inch in 
length, about 4 together, sometimes two or three on a common 
short peduncle. Bracteas lanceolate, attenuated, acuminate, cili- 
ated, at the base of the pedicels ; and a similar pair below the 
calyx. Calycine sepals sub-unequal, lanceolate, acute, ciliated, 
pilose. Petals sub-unequal. Stamens 10: anthers biporose. 
Ovary compressed, sericeo-villous : style hooked : stigma look- 
ing towards the torus, capitato-depressed. Legume an inch or 
more in length, apiculated with a small persistent portion of 
the style, pilose, 9-seeded : seeds rhomboidal, compressed. 
I have given the specific name from the beautiful bright 
green of the leaflets. 
19- Cassia pygmtea. Pigmy Cassia. 
Prostrate, leaves 4-7-paired, branches subglabrous, 
leaflets linear mucronate, petioles pubescenti-hairy 
bearing a pedicelled glandule near the base, pedicels 
solitary axillary 1 -flowered longer than the leaf bi- 
bracteated above the middle, legumes pubescenti- 
hirsute. 
C. repens, Swartz, Obs. 161. — C. pygmsea, Bertero , De Cand . 
Prod. II. 502. 
HAB. Pastures, Liguanea. 
FL. After the October rains. 
Stem prostrate, filiform, glabrous, sub-ramose. Leaflets 
2-4 lines in length, minutely serrulato-ciliated : petiole pubes- 
cent at the base. Stipules ovato- lanceolate, sub-ciliated. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, peduncled : peduncle at first shorter, after- 
wards longer than the leaf, 1 -flowered, filiform, glabrous, bear- 
ing a pair of lanceolate bracteas above the middle. Calycine 
sepals subequal, lanceolate, deciduous. Ovary appresso-seri- 
ceous : stigma obtuse. Legume hairy. 
20. * Cassia virgata. Twiggy Cassia. 
Erect, leaflets 10-paired ovato-lanceolate mucronate 
villous beneath, glandule pedicelled beneath the 
lowest pair, pedicels 1 -flowered axillary double the 
length of the petiole hairy. 
Swartz , FI. Ind. Occ. 728. 
HAB. ? 
FL. 
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