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Cassiinae pt 1 NY-Botanical_gardens_Vol. 35_1 - Copy.pdf - Antbase

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126 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. <strong>35</strong><br />

Weak shrubs and trees, sarmentose and vinehke when crowded, flowering often<br />

when only 1.5-3 m but when adult potenrially attaining a stature of 9(-10) m and<br />

trunk diam of 1.5 dm, strigulose-pUosulous with fine straight and appressed or<br />

forwardly incumbent, less often with erect-incurved, whitish or (distaUy) faintly<br />

lutescent hairs up to 0.1-0.<strong>35</strong> mm, the hornorinous branchlets terete striate or<br />

blunriy angled by ribs descending from the stipules, the foliage bicolored, the<br />

thinly chartaceous lfts dull or sublustrous oUvaceous above, paler beneath, the<br />

faces equally pubescent or the upper (or both) only thinly so along principal<br />

nerves, the sohtary, less often geminate racemes aU or parriy leafy-bracteate or<br />

somerimes all exserted from foliage, the primary axis ofthe commonly pendulous,<br />

narrowly thyrsiform inflorescence at first or in age abrupriy flexuous or zigzag.<br />

Sripules caducous, mosriy falhng before maturity of associated If, linear-oblan­<br />

ceolate acute 4.5-14 x 0.6-2 mm.<br />

Lvs below (and often through part or all of) the inflorescence 13-27(-32) cm;<br />

periole including pulvinus (1.2-)1.6-4.5(-5) cm, at middle (l-)1.2-2.4(-3) mm<br />

diam, the open shaUow ventral groove widened upward toward the gland; rachis<br />

1.5-4.5(-5) cm, varying from htrie longer to litrie shorter than periole; gland 1<br />

sessUe or subsessUe between proximal pair of lfts, in profile 1.5-5(-6) mm tall,<br />

the glabrous body varying from stoutly ovoid to lance-ellipsoid, obtuse or acute,<br />

0.5-2.6 mm diam; pulvinules (2.5-)3-7 mm; distal pair of lfts very obhquely el­<br />

li<strong>pt</strong>ic, obovate- or ovate-elli<strong>pt</strong>ic acuminate (8.5-) 10-23 x (3.2-)3.6-9.5 cm,<br />

2-3(-3.8) times as long as wide, at base broadly cuneate to rounded on proximal<br />

and cuneate on distal side, the margin (adult) plane or almost so, the strongly<br />

displaced, forwardly incurved midrib with ±(7-)8-13 pairs of major cam<strong>pt</strong>odrome<br />

and usuaUy several intercalary secondary veins together with connecting tertiary<br />

and subsequent reticular venulation finely prominulous above and equally or more<br />

sharply so beneath, but the ultimate well-defined mesh variable, the smallest<br />

areoles either much > or

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