on the Hortus Malabaricus, Part II. 309 
and specimens of the three different varieties or species of 
Dr. Roxburgh have been placed in the East India Company's 
collection. 
| TaGera, p. 103. fig. 53. 
Plukenet, quoting the synonyma of Ray and Breynius, both of 
whom would seem to have described this plant, calls the Tagera 
Senna spuria orientalis tenuissimis siliquis tetraphylla ( Alm.342.). 
Rumphius, as I have said when treating of the Ponnam Tagera, 
confounded the Tagera with his Gallinaria acutifolia (Herb. 
Amb. v. 284.) ; but his Gallinaria rotundifolia (l.c. t. 97. f. 2.) 
should rather have been quoted ; although he himself considered 
this as the Kattu Tagera (Hort. Mal. ix. 55. t. 30.). This, how- 
ever, is evidently a mistake, as the Kattu Tagera is undoubtedly 
the Indigofera hirsuta, while the Gallinaria rotundifolia is as 
clearly a Cassia, and may at any rate be considered as scarcely 
different from the Tagera. 
It was no doubt from this plant that Linnæus derived his name 
Cassia Tagera ; and accordingly the younger Burman (FI. Ind. 
95.) under that name unites the synonyma of Rheede, Ray, 
Breynius and Plukenet, already mentioned ; and so far is well : 
but then he joins this annual plant with the Cassia seu Senna spu- 
ria tetraphylla arborescens, siliquis tenuibus longissimis pendulis of 
Ammannus. 
M. Lamarck under the name of C. Tagera describes the Ta- 
gera of Rheede, omitting the synonyma quoted by Linnæus ; 
and not only doubts of Linnzus having actually seen this plant, 
and therefore supposes him to have described some other, but he 
considers the Tagera of Rheede to be a mere variety of the 
Cassia Tora of Linnzus (Enc. Meth. i. 643.). M. Lamarck thus 
quotes the Tagera for his C. Tagera, and the Gallinaria rotundi- 
folia for his C. Tora, considering them as mere varieties of each 
other. In fact, the name Tachara, which Plukenet ( Mant. 170.) 
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