. The natural history of plants. Botany. 116 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. leaves are alternate, simple, entire or two-lobed, witli membranoiis or scaly caducous lateral stipules. Thfe flowers form short, simple or compound racemes (fig. 87), inserted on the branches, or on rugose prominences from the boughs and trunk.' VI. CASSIA SERIES. Cassia' (Fr., Casse; figs. 92-105) has irregular hermaphrodite flowers. The receptacle is slightly convex or flat on top, or even. Fig. 92. Habit (i). slightly concave. The calyx consists of five sepals, near!} always unequal and quincuncially imbricated in the
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 116 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. leaves are alternate, simple, entire or two-lobed, witli membranoiis or scaly caducous lateral stipules. Thfe flowers form short, simple or compound racemes (fig. 87), inserted on the branches, or on rugose prominences from the boughs and trunk.' VI. CASSIA SERIES. Cassia' (Fr., Casse; figs. 92-105) has irregular hermaphrodite flowers. The receptacle is slightly convex or flat on top, or even. Fig. 92. Habit (i). slightly concave. The calyx consists of five sepals, near!} always unequal and quincuncially imbricated in the bud. As the flower is resupinate, one is anterior; this is sepal 1, which is the smallest of all, as may be seen in any of these species of Cassia which are commonly cultivated in our flower gardens, especially C. fiorihundc? • Tliese prominences correspond to old leaf axils. These, as in numerous generations of inflorescences, follow each other every year; and their axes, which remain very short, are gradually confounded into a more or less prominent mass. Thus we have to do with successive series of inflorescences occupyintr the same seat. 2 CoHsia, T., Inst., 619, t. 392.—L., Gen., n. 514.—Adanb., Fam. des Ft, ii. 317.—^J., Q-en., 348.—G^EM., M'uct., ii. 313, t. 146, 147.—Lamk., Diet., i. 641; Suppl., ii. 124 j III., t. 332.—DC, Proir., ii. 489.—Coilad. Monogr. des Causes, Montpell., 1816, icon.— Spaoh, Suit, a Buffbn, i. 113.—VoUEi,, Si/n. Gen. Cassia3, in Linncea, xi. 651.—Endi,., Qen., n. 6781.—B. H., Qen., 571, 1003, n. 326 (inel.: Herpetica Rumps., Bactyrilobium W., Cathar- tocarpus Pees., Chamimcrisla E. Met. (nee DC), Qrimaldia Sche., Fsilorhegma VoG., Macleaya MoNTEOtrz., Senna T.). ^ Cav., ex CoLLAD., op. cit., 88.—DC, Prodr., 11. 22.—C. corymbosa Oet., Dec. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may
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