LEGUMlNOSi'E. 
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Shrubby, 2-3 feet in height: branches virgate, flexuose, pu- 
bescent. Leaflets sessile, villous with the hairs flavo-vi rescent. 
Flowers rather large, fulvous. Sepals lanceolate, pubescent. 
Legumes linear, compressed, margined, glabrous, many-seeded. 
— Stv. 
21. * Cassia lineata. Lineated Cassia . 
Erect, leaflets 5-paired oblong obtuse mucronulated 
pubescent beneath glabrous above as also the branches 
and petioles, glandule sessile at the base of the pe- 
tiole, pedicels axillary and lateral 1 -flowered, legumes 
hairy . — De Cand. 
Swartz, FI. Ind. Occ. 726. 
II AB. Common, Szvurtz. 
FL. ? 
Stem suff’ruticose, 1-3 feet in height, glabrous. Leaflets 
pubescent beneath. Flowers rather large, yellow. Legume 
2-5 inches in length, linear, acinaciform, compressed, margined, 
hairy: seeds 10-12, subrotund, slightly compressed. — It ap- 
proaches, according to Swartz, to C. pilosa. 
LI. IIymen/Ea. Locust-Tree. 
Calyx bibracteolated at the base, 5-partite (some- 
times 4-partite from 2 of the lobes being united into 
one). Petals 5, subequal, glandulose. Stamens 10, 
distinct. Legume woody, 1 -celled, fariniferous, 
many-seeded : embryo straight. 
Trees. Leaves bifoliate It is named after Hymen the 
god of Marriage, from the leaves growing in pairs. 
1. Hymentea Courbaril. Leathery-leaved Locust- 
Tree. 
Leaflets leathery indistinctly veined, unequal at 
the base oblong shortly and obtusely acuminate, pani- 
cle with the flowers peduncled, legumes not tubercu- 
lated. 
Browne, 221. — Lam. 111. t. 330. f. 1 — Dec. leg. Mem. XII. 
t. 26. f. 120. 
HAB. Common in Liguanea, and in the Plains of St Eliza- 
beth. 
FL. July. 
A lofty spreading tree. Extremities of the branchlets terete, 
marked with ferruginous reticulated prolonged scales. Leaves 
