ae; 5 minores ovatae, incumbentes. Ovarium lineare,
pubescens. Stigma terminale, obtusum. Legumen immaturum incanum, stylo e
basi arcuata porrecto terminatum, calyce subemarcido subtensum.
OBS. In the collection of the plants of his last expedition, presented to
the British Museum by Sir Thomas Mitchell, there is a plant which seems
to belong to the genus Pentadynamis, which is probably, therefore, one of
the species of Vigna, described by Mr. Bentham.
10. CASSIA (Sturtii), tomentoso-incana, foliis 4-jugis foliolis
lanceolato-linearibus planis: glandula depressa inter par infimum, racemo
corymboso paucifloro cum pedunculo suo folium paulo superante v.
aequante, calyce tomentoso.
LOC. "In sandy brushes of the Western interior." D. Sturt.
OBS. Species proxima C. artemisiaefoliae De Cand. Prodr. quae Cassia
glaucescens Cunningh. MSS. 1817, cui foliola teretiuscula, et racemus
corymbosus cum pedunculo suo folio brevior.
11. CASSIA (canaliculata), cinerascens pube tenuissima, foliis 2-jugis
(raro 1-jugis) foliolis angustato-linearibus canaliculatis: glandula
inter par inferius et dum unijuga inter terminale, calycibus
glabriusculis, racemis corymbosis paucifloris folio brevioribus.
LOC. "In the bed of the creeks of the Barrier Range, about thirty-six
miles from the Darling, in lat. 32 degrees S." D. Sturt.
OBS. Proxima C. eremophilae Cunningh. MSS. quae sequentibus notis a
Cassia phyllodinea et C. zygophylla, Benth. facile distinguenda.
CASSIA (eremophila), glabra, foliis unijugis raro passim bijugis;
foliolis linearibus canaliculatis latitudine racheos linearis aversae,
corymbis paucifloris folio brevioribus.
LOC. In desertis prope fluvium Lachlan, anno 1817, detexit. D.
Cunningham.
CASSIA (zygophylla), glabra foliis unijugis; foliolis linearibus planis
rachi duplo latioribus, corymbis paucifloris folio brevioribus.
Cassia zygophylla, Benth. in Mitch. trop. Austr. p. 288.
Another species nearly related to C. zygophylla is readily distinguished
by the following character.
CASSIA (platypoda), glabra, foliis unijugis; foliolis linearibus apiculo
recurvo duplo angustioribus rachi aversa lanceolato-lineari.
LOC. Juxta fluvium Murray, anno 1841, detexit Domina Grey.
12. CASSIA (phyllodinea), canescens pube arctissime adpressa, phyllodiis
aphyllis linearibus planis falcatis aversis, calycibus glabris, legumine
plano-compresso.
LOC. In Herbario D. Sturt specimen exstat nulla stationis aut loci
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