Description | Botanical study of a specimen of cassia. This plant is described by John Martyn in the 'Historia Plantarum Rariorum' (1728-1737). Introduced to England from the Bahamas by the naturalist Mark Catesby FRS in 1726.
Yellow flowering plant, showing flowers open and in bud, with green leaves. Inscribed in ink 'Cassia Bahamensis pinnis foliorum mucronatis angustis calyce floris non reflexo, Martyn. Hist. Rar. Plant. Dec. 2: original draw.' Not signed. |