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LEGUMINOSiE. 
[Cassia. 
small bright yellow corolla, 7 fertile and 3 barren stamens and narrow 
square recurved pods £ foot long with 30-40 square shining pale 
brown seeds. 
* C. glandulosa , Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 453 (C. Chamsecrista, Bojer , 
Hort. Maur. 122, non Linn .), a native of Tropical America, is 
naturalised in Mauritius on the Pouce and in plantations round Mont 
Plaisir. It is a shrubby glabrous biennial, with linear persistent 
stipules, sensitive leaves with a single stalked peltate gland on the 
short petiole, 12-15-jugate close sessile ligulate firm cuspidate leaflets, 
flowers solitary or in pairs distinctly stalked in the axils of the leaves, 
linear sepals, bright yellow obovate petals \ inch long, 10 perfect 
stamens with anthers very unequal in length and a linear flat pod 
1- lf inch long narrowed to the base, with 10-12 seeds. 
1. C. mimosoides, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 505. A shrubby perennial, 
2- 3 feet high, with downy branches. Leaves 1-3 in. long, with a solitary 
sessile gland on the short petiole ; leaflets 30-50-jugate, linear, rigidly 
coriaceous, ^ in. long, obliquely pointed, sensitive ; stipules linear, 
persistent. Plowers 1-2 in the axils of the leaves on short pedicels. 
Petals yellow, \ in. deep, rather exceeding the lanceolate downy sepals. 
Pod flat, thin, dehiscent, downy, 1 \-2 in. long ; seeds 15-20, small, 
oblong. 
Seychelles, common in waste lands in many parts of Mahe, Horne , 475 ! Bound 
the world in the tropics. 
22. APZELIA, Smith. 
Calyx with a long cylindrical tube, and 4 oblong imbricated sub- 
equal segments. Upper petal only produced, round with a long 
claw. Perfect stamens decimate, with very long anthers ; imperfect 
5-6, filiform. Ovary with a stalk rather protruded from the disk at the 
top of the tube, linear with few ovules and a long curved filiform 
style. Pod large, flat, oblong, subindehiscent. — Unarmed trees, with 
abruptly pinnate leaves, large rigid leaflets and copious flowers in 
corymbose panicles. Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Species 
10 . 
1. A. bijuga, A. Gray , Bot. Amer. JSxpl. Bxjpedit. 467, t. 51. An un- 
armed tree, with petioled abruptly pinnate leaves. Leaflets bijugate, 
short-stalked, oblique oblong, subacute, glabrous, firm, 3-4 in. long, 
the lower pair distant smaller. Plowers in ample corymbose terminal 
panicles ; pedicels ascending, bibracteolate, articulated at the middle. 
Petal exserted, roundish, with a long claw. Pertile stamens above an 
inch long, with much recurved slender pilose filaments. Pod firm, flat, 
oblong, 6-8 inches long. Outea bijuga, DC. Prod. ii. 511. Maerolo- 
bium bijugum, Coleb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 359, t. 17. Intsia 
madagascariensis, Thouars ; Bojer, Hort. Maur. 422. 
Said to have been once common in the Seychelles, but now rare. Also Malay 
peninsula and isles, Galega and Madagascar. Gayac or Faux Gayac. 
