KOSALES. 



231 



Tho pods are arranjijod in a racomc, as was of 

 course tho iiilloicsccuco, and were tardily 

 dcliisccnt. 



Tiiis sppfics niio;ht l)e oonipnrod \vitli a c;roat 

 many existinj^ anil fossil species of Cassia, l)Lit 

 in view of the great simiUirity in foliage and 

 fruiting characters throughout the geinis little 

 weight can he attached to I'esenihlances to 

 individual species. If it is tliouglit that an 

 unwise course lias Ikhmi followed in relerring 



straigliter secondaries and more perfectly elli|)- 

 tical outline. 



The pods are much like those from the lower 

 Oligocene (Sannoisian) of southern France, 

 desci'il)ed l)y .Saporta, as Micro podium oligo- 

 s-permuni} They are also much like the pods of 

 Ileer's genus Podogonium,- hut differ, as does 

 also Micropodium, in having more than a single 

 seed and in lacking the long stalk wliich is pres- 

 ent in Podognnium. They may be compared 



FioiTRE 13.~Ilestor:i1.ioii of f'n.ssia iriiaixiana lierry. (One-lialf natural size.) 



both tlie leaflets and pods to a shigle species, also with a form from the Tertiary of Bolivia 



it should be remembered that in any event they described by Engelliardt ^ as Dalbergia antiqua. 



belong to closely related conternporiineous Ocnirrcncc— Holly Springs sand, Holly 



species and both show unmistakably that they Springs, Marshall County, Miss, (collected by 



are properly referred to the genus Cassia. E. W. Berry). 



There is no danger of confusing the present Collection.— \j . S. National Museum. 



species with the numerous other Wilcox species iSaporta, G. de, fetudes sur la vi;si5tation du s«d-est de la Franco k 



P f^ !•■ tj*i TiiiL I'epotme tertiaire, vol. 1, p. 137, 1)1. 14, fi'.^. 8, 1803: idem, vol. 3, pi. 18, fi^. 



01 Ctesalpimaceie. it is, however, liable to be i^fso-. 



mistaken for Sopliora vnlcoxiana Berry, which =Ueer, o.swaid, riora tertiaria Helvetia;, vol. 3, p. 113, is.59. 



. •■ . " F.MKelliardt, llcrmann, Naturwiss. Gesell. Isis in Dresden Al)li., 



IS more coriaceous with more numerous 1894, p. s, pi. i,ag.23. 



