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isolated completely from their nearest kindred, and lurk in 
the most improbable places here and there among the other 
sections of Cassie. In the first edition of Linnzus there 
occurs a fine illustration of this. On pages 379 and 380, 
under the heading, 
“* Chameecriste, foliolis numerosis," 
we have an unbroken succession of true CHAMACRISTA 
species; but then, the very first Cassia which he enumerates, 
(on page 376) C. diphylla, is as perfect a Chamecrista as any, 
and should have been ranged with its congeners at the end 
of the series. ; 
In the following partial enumeration of CHAMACRISTA 
species, I shall follow the chronological order of things, be- 
ginning with Linneeus and the year 1753. Certain of these 
species of 1753 were sufficiently indicated in my former 
paper. The following have now been determined by me as 
being genuine Chameecriste. 
C. mimosorpEs. Cassia mimosoides, Linn. Sp. 379. To 
this widely dispersed East Indian type (the original from 
Ceylon) Mr. Bentham reduces—though not without evident 
misgiving—more than twenty species that had been pub- 
lished by various authors; among these Chamecrista stricta 
and C. plumosa of E. Meyer. I do not find that any figure 
has hitherto been published of typical C. mimosoides. 
C. FLEXUOSA. Cassia flexuosa, Linn. l. c. Tropical 
America is the habitat of this; and it was published as a 
Chamecrista, not as a Cassia, in pre-Linnsan times, by 
Breyne with a beautiful folio plate, this plate being Lin- 
nexus’ type for the species as a Cassia. It is the historic type 
of what should be made a section of Chamzcrista marked by 
a strong development of the stipule. In some of the more 
recent species of this group the stipule is still more strongly 
developed, and that at the expense of the leaflets, which in 
some of them are very few, in others almost or altogether 
wanting. 
