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same time in Spanish gardens as C. floribunda ; whilst that sent to De Candolle has smaller, less acumi- 
nate leaflets, with glands only between the lowest pair, and more paniculate flowers. It may be only a 
garden sport. The plants usually known in gardens as C. floribunda or C. grandiflora belong generally 
to C. levigata. 
48. C. HILARIANA, Benth. in Mart. Fl. Bras. Oesalp. 108. Foliola sub-6-juga, oblongo- 
lanceolata, acuta, glabra; glandula inter inferiora. Racemi axillares v. in paniculam co- 
rymbosam dispositi. 
Hab. Tropical America : S. Brazil. 
I have not been able to reexamine this plant recently. I had described it from St. Hilaire's specimens 
many years ago; but when again at Paris, in 1869, St. Hilaire’s plants never having been put in order, 
I was unable to find those I had examined. 
49. C. LAVIGATA, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 441. Foliola 3-4-juga, ovato-lanceolata 
lanceolatave acuminata, glabra ; glandula inter pleraque v. omnia paria. Racemi axil- 
lares v. summi in paniculam brevem dispositi.— Fl. Bras. 107; Collad.! Hist. Cass. t. 5. 
Chamefistula levigata, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 452. 
Cassia floribunda, Cav. Descr. 132, pro parte, non Collad. 
Chamefistula floribunda, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 452. 
C. corymbosa, Ort. Decad. 124, ex Cav. non Lam. 
C. grandiflora, Desf.! Cat. Hort. Par. 302. 
C. septentrionalis, Zucc. Cent. n. 69, ex Collad. Hist. Cass. 89. 
C. elegans, H. B. et K.! Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 342. 
C. vernicosa, Closs in C. Gay, Fl. Chil. ii. 244, ex char. 
C. tropica, Vell. Fl. Flum. 166, Ic. iv. t. 64. 
C. Herbertiana, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1422 (ex ic. et deser.; specimina nulla exstant). 
Chamafistula Herbertiana, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 452. 
Senna aurata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 342, ex char. 
Cassia aurata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 32; Vog. Syn. Cass. 17. 
C. quadrangularis, Zolling. in Miq. ! Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pars i. 97. 
C. hybrida, Ten. ! Cat. Hort. Neap. 80. 
Hab. Tropical and subtropical America, chiefly in waste and cultivated places— Brazil, 
Guiana, Columbia, Central America, Mexico, &c.; and also in similar situations in 
tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, probably in most cases introduced. 
Like other common weeds of cultivation, this is a variable species, but always readily recognized by its 
acute or acuminate glabrous leaflets, with glands between all, or all but the terminal pair. The stipules 
figured by Vellozo are rarely seen, as they are usually exceedingly deciduous; but I have met with some 
specimens in which the upper ones at least persist at the time of flowering. Although now very common 
in Asia, I believe it to be really indigenous in America only. Roxburgh says that his Senna aurata 
is a native of the “countries and islands to the east of Bengal;” but I am not aware of any specimens 
having been seen from those countries of any species closely allied to, yet different from, C. levigata, 
and no specimens of the garden plant shortly characterized by Roxburgh have been preserved, his cha- 
racter at the same time perfectly agreeing with that of C. levigata. 
C. elegans and C. Herbertiana are both referred by Vogel to C. floribunda; but taking the latter name 
to apply to Colladon’s plant, it differs, as above stated, in having the gland only between the lowest pair 
of leaflets as well as in general aspect. The figure and description of C. Herbertiana appear to me to 
indicate only a large-flowered form of C. levigata. It is true that the plant is figured as slightly hairy, 
whilst C. levigata is usually quite glabrous; but so also is C. floribunda said to be. The plant in Lind- 
ley's herbarium representing C. Herbertiana is C. glauca, a very different species, as recognized by 
