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CATHARTOCARPUS Bacillus. 
Four-leaved Cathartocarpus, 
DECANdlllA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. Cjesalpinie^. R. Br. 
- CATHARTOCARPUS. Pers. (1805). Bactyrilobium W. (1809). 
Calyx 5-partitus, deciduus. Corolla regularis, 5-petala. lHammta infe- 
r^Mra arcuata. Legumen longuin, teres, lignosum, pluriloculare : loculis 
pmS^ faretk. Pers, sy%. 1. 459. 
C. Bacillus: foliis bijugis ovatis obliquis, glaii4ula obtusa inter infima, rsr 
cemis axillaribas pedunculatis, siliqua terete longa. Ltn. suppl. 231. 
sub Cassia. 
Cassia bacillaris, Willd. sp. pi. 2. 514. Hortus BeHgalauia 81. link. 
enum. ber. 1. 406;^ 
Cathartocarous BaiSlkis. Pers. sifn. 1. 459. 
. JPrntex awdedm^ pedim ghAnrimus. Folia altema, petiolata, hijtiga, 
Fondia latere intenore ohliqua, utrinque glaberrima, inferiora exquisite 
ovata, superiora ma^is cloyigata. Guindula co7iica, obtusa, inter foliola in- 
feriora. Stipulai nulla:, (minimic, aubulatw, deciduce). Racemi axillareSf 
solitarii, pauciflori, ereclL Pedicelli dependentes, angulati. Floras MVMI* 
tiaci, mediocres. Legumen omnino C. fistulvc, ut distingui nequeat, sw- 
curvum, cylindi icum, glabcrriinum, acumine JUiJoi mi tcrmhiatum, longitu- 
dinepedali, interius isthmis interceptum, quod externe tamen non apparet. L. 
Our drawing of this plant was niade many years ago, 
by the late Mr. Sydenham Edwards; but we do not know 
in what collection. It has not been figured previously, 
and does not appear in the last edition of the Hortus 
Keweusis. It is a shrubby plant, native of Surinam ; 
whence sp#:imQiis were sent to Linnaeus, by Vti^berg, < 
We observe, that Dr. Carey refers to this genus, besides 
the common Cassia fistula. Cassia rhombi/oUa of Roxburgh, 
and C. nodosa and marginata of the same botaMst, with the 
Cassia hadllus of Goertner. It is worthy of notice, that the 
last species is stated in the Hortus Bengalensis to be a 
Malayan plant, and the C. bacillarisof the Calcutta Garden 
(which we know, from specimens from that establislmient, 
to be the plant before us), to be a species introduced to 
