310 Dr. Francis HAMILTON’S Commentary 
says the Malabars give to the Tala or Tora of Ceylon, is evidently 
the same word with the Tagera of Rheede, although Plukenet 
distinguishes the plants from one having two and the other three 
pair of leaflets, a very insufficient mark of distinction. 
Willdenow (Sp. Pl. ii. 515.) with propriety, as a mere editor 
of Linnzus, continues to describe the Cassia Tagera in the words 
of the original author; but he quotes with doubt the Tagera of 
Rheede ; and he extends this doubt to the plant of Ammannus, 
quoted by Linnzus, as the Tagera of the latter was a fruticulus 
procumbens, while the plant of Ammannus is arborescent, and 
the Tagera of Rheede is a strong annual plant two or three feet 
high. Far, however, from attending to the mark of distinction 
pointed out by Plukenet of the Tagera having four leaflets and 
the Tora six, Willdenow in the specific character of both has folia 
trijuga ; but, to show how little consequence he attached to num- 
ber, in describing the Tagera foliis trijugis, he says foliola quatuor. 
As a variety of the C. Tora Willdenow adds an American plant 
described by Plumier ; while he removes the Gallinaria rotundi- 
folia of Rumphius, and joins it with another American plant, the 
C. obtusifolia of Linnæus ; but, as I have said, I think that this 
plant of Rumphius can be scarcely considered as different from 
the Tagera. 
Neither Roxburgh (Hort. Beng. 31.) nor the Hortus Kewensis 
(iii. 25.) quotes either Rheede or Rumphius for the C. Tora. The 
plant, however, which is meant in both works is probably the 
same, that is, the Cassia siliqua quadrangulari of Dillenius and 
the elder Burman (Thes. Zeyl. 56), although most of the syno- 
nyma quoted by the latter are by Willdenow rejected as belong- 
ing to a variety, or rather to a distinct species. Some of these 
synonyma at least belong to a plant, which I found very com- 
mon in Mysore, and sent the seeds to Dr. Roxburgh, who con- 
. sidered it as forming a species very nearly allied to the C. Tora, 
and 
