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fifes fometimes to the height of fevers or eight feet, but 
feldom exceeds four in its native foil. Ants are very fond 
of the flowers. The juice of the leaves or buds is faid to 
Cure the ring-worm, whence it is called in Jamaica the 
ring-worm bufli. The French in St. Domingo, where it 
alfo grows wild, call it herbe a dartres, and Rumpliius, 
for the fame reafon, names it herpctica. It flowers in the 
fpring. Miller fays that the whole plant has a ftrong fee- 
tid odour. It was cultivated by him in 1731. 
26. Caflia Marilandica, or Maryland caflia : leaflets 
eight pairs, ovate-oblong, equal ; a gland at the bale of 
the petioles. Root perennial, compofed of a great num¬ 
ber of black fibres, fending out in the fpring feveral upright 
ftems, four or five feet high, dividing into many branches 
pointing obliquely upwards; flowers two or three together, 
from the axillas of the upper leaves, and in loofe (pikes at 
the end of the (lem; before they open they hang down, 
but are afterwards ereft. Native of North America. Pe¬ 
ter Collinfon received this fpecies from Maryland, in 1723. 
27. Caflia tenuiflima: leaflets nine pairs, oblong, a 
fubulate gland between the lowed:.' Native of the Havanna. 
28. Caflia fophera : leaflets ten pairs, lanceolate, an ob¬ 
long gland at the bafe. Native of the Eaft Indies, China, 
and the itland of Tongataboo, in the South Seas. 
29. Caflia bradfeata: leaflets ten pairs, oblong, ob- 
tufe, without glands; racemes elongated ; bradtes ovate, 
dwelling, imbricate ; legume quadrangular, comprefled. 
Leaves more than a foot long, with eight or ten pairs 
of leaflets, which are four inches long, linear, rounded at 
the end, foft and hoary beneath. Found at Surinam by 
Dalberg. 
30. Caflia auriculata, or eared caflia : leaflets twelve 
pairs, obtufe, mucronate, feveral fubulate glands; fiipules 
kidney-form, bearded. Flowers three, four, or five, in a 
corymb, orange-coloured. Native of the Eafl Indies. 
Introduced in 1777, by Daniel Charles Solander, LL.D. 
31. Caflia Javanica, or Java caflia: leaflets twelve pairs, 
oblong, obtufe, fmooth, no gland. This rifes to a great 
magnitude,with a large trunk, dividing into many branches. 
Leaves very long, compofed of twelve or fourteen pairs 
of fmooth leaflets, of a light green, and placed near toge¬ 
ther, The flowers come out in loofe fpikes at the ends of 
the branches; they are of a pale carnation colour, and are 
fncceeded by large cylindrical pods, two feet long, and the 
thicknefsof a (lender arm, divided by tranfverfe partitions 
into many cells, in which the feeds are lodged, furrounded 
with a black purging pulp. This is called horfe caflia, be- 
caufe it is generally given to horfes, but is feldom ufed by 
the human fpecies on account of its griping quality, It is a 
native of the Eafl Indies, as Linnaeus’s trivial name im¬ 
plies, and feems to be confounded by Miller with one of the 
Weft Indian forts. Introduced in 1779. 
32. Caflia grandis: leaflets twenty pairs, fomewhat 
filky, without glands. This is a flout tree,and the branches 
are covered with a fine filky down. Native of Surinam. 
33. Caflia chamtecrifta, or dwarf caflia: leaflets many 
pairs, a petiolar pedicelled gland; ftipules enfiform. Stem 
herbaceous, a foot high, or more. It is an annual plant, 
native of the Weft Indies, in dry paftures; and was cul¬ 
tivated here in 1699, by the duchc-fs of Beaufort. 
34. Caflia glanduiofa : leaflets many pairs, with many 
glands; ftipules fubulate. Native of the Weft Indies. 
35. C.vflia mimofoides : leaflets many pairs, linear; an 
obfeure gland at the bale of the petioles; ftipules Ceta¬ 
ceous. Stem ere£V, not flexuoule, very Ample, round, 
more than two feet high. Native of Ceylon. 
3 6. Caflia flexuofa : leaflets many pairs ; ftipules half- 
cordate. This is an annual plant, and native of Brafil. 
37. Caflia niciitans : leaflets many pairs; flowers pen- 
tandrous ; (lem fomew hat ereff. This is an annual plant, 
and native of Virginia. 
38. Caflia procumbens : leaflets many pairs, without 
glands;'(lent procumbent. This is alio annual, and na¬ 
tive both of the Indies and Virginia; of Japan, Cochin- 
china, and Africa. 
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The following fpecies are added front Miller, who re¬ 
ceived them from Dr. Houfton : 
39. Caflia fruticofa : leaflets two pairs, ovate-lanceolate, 
fmooth; flowers terminal; pods long, round ; (lent flirub- 
by. This grows upwards of twenty feet high, w ith feve¬ 
ral (terns, covered with brown bark, and dividing inttk 
many branches at top ; the leaves have two pairs of leaf¬ 
lets, which in the lower ones are oval; but thofe of the 
upper are five inches long, and two and a half broad in the 
middle, fmooth, and of a light green. The flowers are 
produced in loofe (pikes at the extremity of the brandies ; 
they are large, of a gold colour, and fucceeded by taper 
brown pods, about nine indies long, having many tranf¬ 
verfe partitions, in which the feeds are lodged in a thin 
pulp. Native of Vera Cruz. 
40. Caflia arborefeens: leaflets two pairs, oblong-ovate, 
villofe beneath ; flowers corymbed ; (tern eredt, arbore¬ 
ous. This rifes with a ftrong upright trunk, to the height 
of twenty-five or Jhirty feet, dividing into many branches, 
covered with an alli-coloured bark. Leaves on long foot- 
ftalks, compofed of two pairs of leaflets, four inches long, 
and near two broad, fmooth, of a dark green on their up¬ 
per fide, but paler underneath. The flowers are produced 
fometimes from the fide of the ftalks, where they are few 
and fcattering ; but the ends of the branches having large 
round bunches of flowers, which branch out from one 
centre ; they are of a deep yellow, inclining to orange-co¬ 
lour, and are fucceeded by comprefled pods, near nine 
inches long, having a border on each fide, and containing 
one row of oval, fmooth, comprefled, feeds. Native of 
Vera Cruz. 
41. Caflia villofa : leaflets three pairs, oblong-ovate, 
equal, villofe ; pods jointed; ftern eredt, arboreous.'This 
rifes with a woody ftemto the height of fourteen or fixteen 
feet, fending out many lateral branches. The flowers 
come out in loofe bunches at the ends of the branches, 
are of a pale ftravv-colour, and fmall ; the pods are long, 
narrow, and jointed, each feed being lodged in a fort of ad 
i ft hums; the feeds are oval and brown. Native of Cam- 
peachy. 
42. Caflia uniflora : leaflets three pairs, ovate-acumi¬ 
nate, villofe ; flowers folitary, axillary ; pods erect. This 
is a low herbaceous plant, feldom riling a foot high, with 
a Angle (lem ; the flowers come out fingly from the fide 
of the (lem, are of a pale yellow, and fmall, and are fuc- 
ceeded by narrow taper pods, two inches long, and grow¬ 
ing upright. It is an annual plant, and a native of Cam- 
peachy. 
43. Caflia frutefeens: leaflets five pairs, ovate, fmooth, 
the outer ones longer; item (hrubby. This rifes with a 
flirubby ftalk, five or fix feet high, fending out many 
branches towards the top ; the leaves have five pairs of 
oval leaflets, of which the upper ones are.longed; the 
flowers are yellow,come out from the (ides of the ftalks,and 
alfo terminate the branches in loofe fpikes ; the pods are 
long, taper, and contain two rows of feeds. Native of 
Jamaica. 
44. Caflia tetraphyila : leaflets two pairs, ovate; flow¬ 
ers, folitary, axillary ; filiques hirfute ; denis procumbent. 
This is an annual plant, with feveral trailing herbaceous 
(talks, about two feet long; the leaves are on long foot- 
Italks, and at a confiderable diftance from each other ; the 
flowers come out (ingle from the fide of the branches, are 
of a pale yellow colour, and are fucceeded by (hurt, flat, 
hairy pods, containing one vow of flat feeds. Native of 
Vera Cruz. 
45. Caflia minima: leaflets four pairs, oblong-ovate; 
denis procumbent; flowers axillary ; peduncles two-flow¬ 
ered. Thisalfo is an annual plant, and fends out from the 
root two or three (lender ftalks, which trail on the ground ; 
the leaves have four pa Vs of pale green round ifh leaflets; 
at the infertion of the foot-Ilalk aiifes the peduncle, which 
is jointed, divided into two (horter at the top, and fuftain- 
ing two fmall yellow flowers. Native of Jamaica. 
46. Caflia patula, or ihining caflia: leaflets five pairs, 
ro N oblong, 
