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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/27/2012)
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Species
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CASSIA BICAPSULARIS L.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Sp. P1. 376. 1753.
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Synonym
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Cassia sennoides Jacq. Collect. 1:74. 1786. Cassia coluteoides Collad. Hist. Cass. 102, t. I2. 1816. Senna bicapsularis Roxb. Fl. Ind. 2:342. 1832. Cassia Augusti Harms, in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. 18:93. 1922, fide Macbride. Adipera bicapsularis (L.) Britt. & Rose, in Britt. & Wilson, Scientif. Surv. Porto Rico and Virgin IsIs. 5:370. 1924.
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Reference
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Bentham , Revision of the genus Cassia, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 27:503. 1871
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Synonym
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Cassia limensis Lam. Encycl. Meth. 1:643. 1783. Cassia Cbinensis Lam. loc. cit. 644. 1783, ex parte? Cassia pendula Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 440. 1809. Cassia alcaparillo HBK. Nov. Gen. et Sp. 6:355. 1824. Cassia Berterii Colla, Hort. Ripul. 30, t. 24. 1824. Cassia inflata Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2:336. 1825. Cassia dormiens Vell. Fl. Flum. Ic. 4:t. 67. 1827. Cassia Collae G. Don, Gen. Hist. Dichl. PI. 2:442. 1832. Cbamaefistula inflata G. Don, loc. cit. 451. 1832. Cbamaefistula pendula G. Don, loc. cit. 1832. Cassid chrysoloma DeNot. Ind. Sem. Hort. Bot. R. Arch. Gen. 1840 (ex Linnaea 15:Litt. Ber. 92. 1841, ex char.). Cassia crassisepala Benth. in Linnaea 22:527. 1849. Cassia glandulifera Reinw. in Blume, Cat. Hort. Bog. 68, ex Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 11:92. 1855. Cassia Reinwardtii Hassk. Hort. Bog. (286. 1844), in Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot. II, 14:58. 1840, ex Miq. loc. cit. 1855.
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Description
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Shrub or small tree, mostly glabrous throughout. Leaves moderately small, 6- to lO-foliolate; petiole up to 3 cm. long; rachis up to 4 cm. long, somewhat flat- tened or sulcate above, bearing between the lowermost pair of leaflets a stocky clavate gland 1-2 mm. long; stipules caducous; leaflets obovate, up to 3 cm. long and 1.5 cm. wide, the terminal pair largest, apically rounded to subtruncate, basally cuneate (upper pairs) to obtuse (lower pairs) and somewhat unequal, subsessile, glaucous below, dull above, obscurely reticulate. Inflorescence terminal to axillary from the upper leaves, the individual racemes several-flowered; bracts small, lanceo- late, about 1 mm. long when caducous; pedicels about 1 cm. long at anthesis. Flowers yellow; sepals obovate to ovate or lanceolate, up to 12 mm. long, imbri- cate, unequal, greenish; petals oblong or obovate, up to 16 mm. long and 9 mm. wide, imbricate, glabrous, venose, sessile; fertile stamens 7, trimorphic; staminodes 3, flat, cuneate-deltoid, 4-5 mm. long, clawed, apically truncate; the lowermost- center anther linear, about 8 mm. long, apically rostrate and dehiscent by a single terminal pore, its filament about 4 mm. long; the two marginal anthers (of lower- most stamens) similar to the center one but more robust, with stout filaments up to 1 cm. long; 4 median anthers linear-oblong, about 5 mm. long, short-rostrate and dehiscent by 2 terminal pores, with short filaments; ovary linear, glabrous or pubescent, sessile. Legume linear-cylindric, about 12-15 cm. long and usually 1-1.3 cm. wide when mature, glabrous, dehiscent into 2 septate halves, stipitate, straight or only slightly curved.
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Habit
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Shrub tree
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Distribution
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Mexico to Paraguay and introduced into Old World tropics.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE?: without locality, Hayes 746, Seemann 529. COCLE: Aguadulce, Pittier 4963.
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