on the Hortiis Malaharicus, 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. Jig. 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 {Aim. 342,). 



Rumphius, as I have said when treating of the Ponnam Tagera, 

 confounded the Tagera with his Gallinaria acutifolia {Herb. 

 Amh. V. 284.) ; but his Gallinaria rotundifolia {I. c. t. 97. /. 2.) 

 should rather have been quoted ; although he himself considered 

 this as the Kattu Tagera {Hort. Mai. 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 Linnaeus derived his name 

 Cassia Tagera ; and accordingly the younger Burman {Fl. 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 sen 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 Linnaeus ; 

 and not only doubts of Linnaeus 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 Linnaeus {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 Vhikenet {Mant. 170.) « 



2 s 2 says 



