12698. Cassia fietwula Linn. Medium or large sized 
trees in open woods ef moist fertile @c1il1 along the Lara 
viver flat et 20 fect altitude; stem 2 fect thick, 45 
feet high, erooked, the lerger trees straight, branched 
from the middle; wood bitter, odorless, the outer one 
third whitish, the central yellowish brown, hard and brite 
tle; bark gray, thinly checked, reddish trown for the mide 
dle portion, yellow on the inside; lenves horisentaliy 
epreading, thinly coriaceous, emocth, nearly flet, only 
Slightly paler green beneath, never glaucous green; ine 
flores¢enee along the branchlets, suberest, faintly frae 
grant; the stalk, divarieate fiedicels and subtending bracts 
green but soon becoming reddish tinged; bués pendent; 
calyx reddish brown; petels divaricete or subpendent, re- 
flexed when in full anthesis; stamens light yellew as 
are alte the upper anthers, the anthers on the bower 
or longer filements pale chocolate brewny; ovary green, 
Stigma eleret redy the soft petals pink in the bud 
state and when old having turned to pure white; braench- 
lets Slender dull brown, breaking with a @nep; old 
pods 1 2/2 foot long, terete, 3/4 inch in diameter, 
nesriy black, divided into numerous thin transverse 
rote *"Tepad@lepads" Brooks Point, February, 
1911. . 
6; stems 
several from the sume nodose 6 inches thdeky base, to» 
rete, 1 inch thiek or less, rebranched a11 Blone, witie 
mately mumereusly rebranched; bark gray coarsely len- 
tieelled along the stem, finely erayish white lenticelled 
on the branches; leaves lcathery not rigid, yellowish 
areen on beth sidas; «aurvingly folded upon the upper 
side; intloreseence ascending, the Stalke green, the 
Galyx grayish ereen; the corolla Sesegmented paie ~ 
fleshy red, atemens of the same color; pietil greenish; 
"“Begto4"”. Brooke Point, February, 1911. 
127006  Viteun orientale 41110, Smell lex masses 
wpon the limbe of a Tiliacese Species Standing solitari- 
iy upon the sandy benke of the Lara river at BO feet 
elevation; stem &£ feet long terete, green, Smooth, di-+ 
varicstely brenched from the base; branchlets slender, 
lex, drooping; bud-like flowers yd. lowish green, young 
fruit pepiliese; meture fruite 1/4 inch in diameter, 
globose, Salmon red and seft when mature, juicy and sweet, 
the Bingle seed deep green; leaves @eattered, coriaceous, 
shallowly folde@ upon the upper side, lucid onboth sides; 
"Begto.” Breoke Point, February, 1911. 
12Z70le Paerkis timoriens (B0.) Morr. Lerae and lofty 
trees in fertile soil of wood along the Lerea river flat 
and slong the beach woods; stem terete, buttressed at 
the base, 3 to & fect in G@ismeter, branched from the 
midéle, 66 feet high or higher; main branches large, 
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