CHAMJECRISTA. 29 
if I mistake not, the type of Chamecrista pavonis, the real 
_ Cassia Chamecrista, Linn. Of this very old type-species Mr. 
Bentham appears to have made another of his favorite jum- 
bles, by reducing to it seven species of other authors. 
C. SERPENS. Cassia serpens, Linn. Sp. 2ed. 541; Colladon, 
l. c. 128. Native of Jamaica, and also of the small-flowered 
group to which C. nictitans belongs. 
After the second edition of Linnæus Species, the next work 
of importance to general botany is the eighth edition of 
Miller's Gardeners’ Dictionary. In this are published a very 
considerable number of new Cassias that had been unknown 
to Linnzus; but none of these are recognizable as of the 
Chamecrista genus. However, it is easily discoverable by his 
excellent description of what he calls C. chameecrista, that it 
is not the plant which Linneus had so named, but a really 
new Chamecrista, Colladon in 1816 discovered this fact. 
and assigned the species a name. Then again, as late as 
1895, by an American botanist it was described and named 
anew. Its name and synonymy must here be given. 
C. CHAMJECRISTOIDES. Cassia chamzeristoides, Collad. Hist... 
Cass. 1384. C. Chamezcrista, Mill. Dict., not of Linn. C. de- 
pressa, Pollard, Bull. Torr. Club. xxii, 515. Chameerista 
depressa, Greene, Pitt. iii. 242. Miller seems to have doubted 
as to the identity of his plant with the true Cassia Chamz- 
crista; for he says that it differs in having a “trailing stalk ; 
the leaves are much shorter, having but half the number of 
pinne, which are also narrower and shorter.” And these 
are precisely the characters upon which Mr. Pollard estab- 
lished his €. depressa. The description in Miller (1768) and 
that in the paper of 1895, are so completely harmonious 
that, were the two plants obtained from opposite hemispheres, 
we should still think them one; and when it is known both 
types came from opposite shores of the same subtropic sea, the 
