Cassia moschata Kunth

Cassia moschata H.B.K. Nov. Gen. & vSp. 6: 338. 1824
Cathartocarpus moschalus G. Don, Gen. Hist. 2: 453. 1832.
A tree, 8-13 m. high, the twigs angled, sulcate, glabrous. Stipules triangular, caducous; leaves short-petioled; leaflets 10-18 pairs, oblong, rounded or obtuse at ape., pubescent on both sides, 4-5 cm. long, 12-15 mm. wide; flowers in elongated puberulent racemes; pedicels 10-15 mm. long; sepals obtuse, rounded, reflexed,puberulent or glabrate, 6-7 mm, long, reddish brown; petals 10-15 mm. long, yellow to orange; filaments slender; anthers glabrous; ovary naked or with a few tufts of white hairs; legume cylindric, 3-6 dm. long, terete, nearly 2 em. in diameter, smooth, its pulp musk-scented.
Type locality; Mompox on the Magdalena River, Colombia.
Distribution: Costa Rica to Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and British Guiana; Trinidad. Naturalized in Cuba.