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Senna angustisiliqua var. fulgens (Macfad.) H. S. Irwin & Barneby

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Peiranisia jamaicensis Britton, sp. nov
A shrub, about 4 m. high, or lower, the twigs densely villous. Stipules setaceous, villous, 5-8 mm. long, deciduous; gland narrowly oblong, pointed, about 1.5 mm. long, borne between the lower pair of leaflets; leaves 6-12 cm. long, the petiole and rachis villous or glabrate; leaflets 5-8 pairs, membranous, acutish, obtuse or rounded, 1.5-4 cm. long, glabrous above, somewhat strigose on the veins beneath; peduftcles axillary, villous, 2-3 cm. long, 2-flowered or Iflowered; sepals elliptic to suborbicular, rounded, about 9 mm. long or shorter; petals 1.5-2 cm. long; legume rather broadly linear, 10 cm. long, about 8 mm. wide, sparingly pubescent, shortstipitate, obtuse, apiculate.
Jamaica. Type from below Flamsted, about 900 m. altitude, October, 20, 1905, Harris 9031.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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Peiranisia oxyadena (DC.) Britton & Rose
Cassia oxyadena DC. Prodr. 2: 495. 1825. Cassia fulgms Macfad. Fl. Jam. 1: 342. 1837.
A shrubby tree, 3-5 m. high, the young branches, petioles and inflorescence appressedpubescent. Stipules pubescent; leaves about 8 cm. long; leaflets 6-10 pairs, objong or oblongobovate, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, rounded or obtuse, mucronulate, glabrous above, sparingly pubescent on the midvein beneath ; an ovoid to subclavate gland between the lowest pair and sometimes the two lower pairs; similar glands are borne on the inflorescence at the bases of the pedicels; racemes 3-6-flowered, somewhat longer than the leaves; pedicels 1-2 cm. long; sepals unequal, rounded; petals large; legume linear, stipitate, glabrous, 6-9 cm. long, 8-9 mm. wide, impressed between the seeds.
Type locality: Jamaica. Distribution; Jamaica.
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Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose. 1928. (ROSALES); MIMOSACEAE. North American flora. vol 23(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
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