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Hab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. S. Paolo, Minas Geraes, Alagoas, Ceara, and 
Bahia. 
55. C. SPECTABILIS, DOC. ! Cat. Hort. Monsp. 90. Foliola 8-15-juga, ovato-lanceolata, 
acuta. Legumen leve v. vix torulosum. 
C. spectabilis, Collad. ! Hist. Cass. t. 7. 
C. speciosa, H. B. et K. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 338, non Schrad. 
C. Humboldtiana, DC. Prod. ii. 489. 
Cathartocarpus Humboldtianus, Loud. Hort. Brit. 167. 
Cathartocarpus speciosus, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 453. 
Cassia Trinitatis, Reichb. in Sieb.! Pl. Trin. exs. n. 57; Vog. Syn. Cass. 46. 
Cathartocarpus Trinitatis, G. Don, Gen. Syst. 11. 453. 
Hab. Tropical America: Columbia, W. Indies, Central America, and perhaps Guiana, 
Most of the specimens from Guiana, formerly referred to C. Trinitatis by myself and others, belong to 
C. lucens, which, with nearly the same foliage and inflorescence, has very different stamens and fruit. 
Series 4. Brachycarpæ. Foliola uni- plurijuga, glandula inter inferiora v. pleraque 
paria. Sepala angusta, subequalia. Anthere perfecte (T) inter se subequales. v. 2-3 
inferiores longiores, vie rostrate. Legumen breve (3-2-pollicare), incurvum v. rarius 
rectum, turgidulum v. subteres, submembranaceum, demum. sepius bivalve. Racemi axil- 
lares sepe pauciflori, v. pluriflori in paniculam corymbosam dispositi. 
This group forms, as it were, the passage from Chamefistula to Oncolobium. C. Lindheimeriana and 
C. Mexicana have much of the aspect of C. Dombeyana, or some varieties of C. bicapsularis among the 
Chamefistule Corymbose, whilst their fruit approaches that of some Oncolobia ; they are, however, readily 
distinguished from the latter section by the want of the gland on the petiole below the leaflets, and from 
both by the narrow, nearly equal calyx-lobes. 
* Herbe rhizomate perenni. Foliola unijuga. 
56. C. PUMILIO, A. Gray!, Pl. Lindh. in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 180. Foliola 
linearia, glabriuscula. Pedunculi 1-flori. Legumen inflato-globosum v. ovoideum, semipol- 
licare. 
Hab. Subtropical North America: West Texas and New Mexico. 
57. C. RawERIANA, Scheele in Linnea, xxi 457. Foliola lanceolata, parce adpresse 
pilosula. Pedunculi 2-4-flori, ad apices ramorum subcorymbosi. Legumen subpollicare. 
Hab. Subtropieal North America: Texas. 
58. C. BAUHINIOIDES, A. Gray !, Pl. Lindh. in Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. vi. 180. Foliola 
obliqua, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, molliter villosa. Peduneuli axillares, subbiflori. Legumen 
subpollicare, hispidum. 
Hab. Subtropical North America: West Texas and New Mexico. 
59. C. NANA, Benth.! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Cesalp. 110. Foliola obliqua, ovata, obtusa, mar- 
ginata, subtus pilosula. Pedunculi axillares, pauciflori. Legumen sesquipollicare, glabrum. 
Hab. Subtropical South America: South Brazil. : 
X* Prutices v. rarius herbe, elate. Folia bi- plurijuga. 
Mim. 132, t. 40. Tomentosa v. sericeo-villosa. Foliola 
60. C. CROTALARIOIDES, Kunth!, 
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