324 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
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show that Africa may be also the native country of P. acu- 
leata. 
. Guilandina Bonduc, Linn.—Cape Palmas, Vogel.—Abun- 
dant along the west coast, and like the Parkinsonia, found 
also in Asia and America. 
. Cesalpinia pulcherrima, Sw.—Sierra Leone, Vogel, Don. 
— Cultivated here, as in other Tropical countries, for the beauty 
of its flowers. 
An undescribed species of the Asiatic genus Mezoneurum 
occurs in Heudelot’s Senegambian collection. 
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2. 
Cassia Sieberiana, DC. Prod. 2. p. 489.—Cathartocarpus 
conspicua, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 2. p. 453.—Sierra Leone, 
Don ; Senegal. 
Cassia levigata, Willd.—Vog. Syn. Cass. p. 19.—Sierra 
Leone and Fernando Po (cultivated), Vogel—An American 
species found from Mexico to Brazil, but perhaps in some 
instances cultivated. 
8. Cassia occidentalis, Linn.—Vog. Syn. Cass. p. 21.—Abun- 
dant along the coast, Vogel, Don, &c.; common also in 
Tropical America and East India, but often in cultivation 
only. Amongthe numerous varieties observed of this species, 
two occur most frequently in W. Tropical Africa, the one 
with smaller leaflets, and shorter and straighter pods, the 
other with larger leaflets and longer curved pods. To the 
latter form belongs the Chamefistula contorta, G. Don, Gard. 
Dict. 2. p. 452. 
4. Cassia obtusifolia, Linn—Vog. Syn. Cass. p. 24.—Fer- 
nando Po, Cape Palmas, &c.; abundant near habitations, 
Vogel; Senegambia; frequent in America. It may not be 
specifically distinct from the E. Indian C. Tora, Linn. 
which is also found in Senegambia, and other parts of West 
Africa, 
5. Cassia Absus, Linn.— Vog. Syn. p. 50.—C. viscosa, Schum. 
et Thonn. Beskr. p. 205.—On the Quorra at Attah, Vogel; 
ines also Abyssinia and Egypt, and frequent in East 
ndia. 
