Cassia bahamensis Mill.

  • Authority

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

  • Family

    Caesalpiniaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Cassia bahamensis Mill.

  • Description

    Species Description - A shrub, 1-3 m. high, the stems simple or branched, glabrous or somewhat pubescent. Leaves 7-15 cm. long; leaflets 3-5 pairs, rather firm in texture, oblong or elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute or mucronate, 2.5-6 cm. long, the petiolar gland large, sessile, wart-like, orbicular or subglobose, the linear stipules caducous; flowers corymbose-paniculate; pedicels slender, 8-20 mm. long; calyx 6-8 mm. long; petals obovate, 10-15 mm. long; pods linear, flat, slightly curved, 7-10 cm. long, 4-8 mm. wide, the seeds transverse.

  • Discussion

    Distribution and ecology: Scrub-lands, coppices, thickets and pine-lands. Berry Islands, Andros. New Providence, Exuma Chain. Long Island, Great Ragged Island, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Little San Salvador. Watling's Rum Cay, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, South Caicos : Florida: Cays of northern Cuba. Specimens from Fortune Island and South Caicos have broadly ovate-elliptic leaflets (var. latifolia Benth.). Bahama Senna. Stinking Pea.

  • Distribution

    Berry Islands, Andros. New Providence, Exuma Chain. Long Island, Great Ragged Island, Eleuthera, Cat Island, Little San Salvador. Watling's Rum Cay, Crooked Island, Fortune Island, South Caicos : Florida: Cays of northern Cuba. Specimens from Fortune Island and South Caicos.

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