Cassia

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Caesalpiniaceae

• Scientific Name

  Cassia

• Description

  Description - Herbs, shrubs, or some tropical species trees, with evenly pinnate leaves, and mainly (in all our species) yellow flowers. Calyx-teeth nearly equal, generally longer than the tube. Corolla nearly regular; petals 5, spreading, nearly equal, imbricated, clawed. Stamens usually 10, sometimes 5, often unequal and some of them imperfect; anthers all alike, or those of the lower stamens larger, opening by 2 pores at the summit. Ovules =o. Pods various. Seeds often rumerous. [Ancient name.] About 200 species, of wide distribution in warm and temperate regions. Typo species: Cassia Fistula L.