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Cassia (Species of this genus)

The species of this genus are broadly distributed over the warm regions of the globe. To those described on p. 276, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. coquimbensis (Coquimbo). fl. 1 1/2in. in diameter; sepals oblong, obtuse, about half the length of the orange-yellow petals; dorsal petal obcordate, the two lateral ones broadly obovate, the anterior ones smaller, obovate-oblong; cymes axillary, many-cleft, sub-corymbose. September. fr., pods about 4in. long, over 1/2in. broad, stipitate, flattened, acute at base, mucronate at tip. l. 2in. to 4in. long; leaflets four to six pairs, four to eight lines long, sessile, elliptic-oblong or almost rounded, apiculate, pale green. Chili, 1886. Greenhouse shrub. (B. M. 7002.)