_Class and Order._

DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.

_Generic Character._

_Calyx_ 5-phyllus. _Petala_ 5. _Antheræ_ superne 3 steriles; infimæ 3
rostratæ. _Legumen._

_Specific Character and Synonyms._

CASSIA _Chamæcrista_ foliis multijugis, glandula petiolari pedicellata,
stipulis ensiformibus. _Linn. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14._ _Murr. p.
394._ _Hort. Kew. p. 54._

CHAMÆCRISTA pavonis major. _Comm. Hort. 1. p. 53. t. 37._

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A native of the West-Indies, and of Virginia according to
LINNÆUS; not common in our gardens, though cultivated as long
ago as 1699, by the DUCHESS OF BEAUFORT; (_vid. Hort. Kew._)
unnoticed by MILLER.

This species, superior in beauty to many of the genus, is an annual, and
consequently raised only from seeds, these must be sown in the spring,
on a hot-bed, and when large enough to transplant, placed separately in
pots of light loamy earth, then replunged into a moderate hot-bed to