536 MR. G. BENTHAM—REVISION OF THE GENUS CASSIA. 
Senna toroides, Roxb.! Fl. Ind. ii. 341. 
Chamefistula contorta, G. Don !, Gen. Syst. ii. 452. 
Cassia contorta, Vog. Syn. Cass. 20. 
E candenatensis, Dennst. in Steud. Nom. Bot. ed. 2, ex ic. cit. 
Hab. Tropical and subtropical America, Asia, Africa, and Australia, generally common 
in cultivated and waste places, extending as far north as South Carolina, Bartram in 
herb. Mus. Brit. 
The American C. obtusifolia has been generally distinguished from the Asiatic C. Tora by the curved, 
not straight, pods; but both are common in Asia, and the pod is sometimes curved or straight on the 
same plant, depending apparently sometimes on the degree of maturity or upon circumstances of weather 
or soil during growth, although there may really be also a variety where it is more usually straight than 
curved. The precise shape of the gland and its presence at the lowest pair only or at both pairs of leaflets, 
by which attempts have been made to distinguish some of the proposed species, are always exceedingly 
variable. 
78. C. PILIFERA, Vog.! Syn. Cass. 23. Herbacea v. basi frutescens, caule longe pa- 
tentim piloso. Foliola2-juga. Legumen elongatum, angustum, tereti-tetragonum, rectum 
v. arcuatum.— Fl. Bras. 115. 
C. maritima, Willd. in Vog. Syn. Cass. 23. 
Hab. Tropical and subtropical America: Brazil from Montevideo to Bahia and Matto- 
erosso, Bolivia, Central America. 
79. C. MUCRONIFERA, Mart.! Fl. Bras. Cesalp. 116. Basi frutescens molliter tomen- 
toso-pubescens. Foliola 3-juga. Stipulæ persistentes. Flores ampli. Legumen C. Tore. 
Hab. Tropical America: Brazil, prov. Bahia and Minas Geraes. 
This has much the aspect of the pubescent form of C. leiophylla, but with a very different pod. 
Series 2. Confertæ. Frutices suffruticesve undique sericeo- v. stellato-tomentosi. 
Flores parvi in racemum brevem sessilem v. pedunculatum conferti. 
80. C. SERICEA, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occid. 124. Rufo- v. fulvo-sericea. Foliola 3-5-juga. 
Legumen lineari-tetragonum, suturis continuis, inter suturas transverse inter semina im- 
pressum.— 77. Bras. 146, t. 35. 
C. ornithopoides, Lam. Dict. i. 466. 
C. sensitiva, Jacq. Collect. ii. 362 ; Ic. Rar. t. 459. 
C. ciliata, Hoffm. Verz. ex char. in DC. Prod. ii. 493. 
C. uniflora, Mill.! Dict. n. 5, non Spreng. 
C. monantha, DC. Prod. ii. 506. 
Hab. Tropical America: Brazil, W. Indies, Central America, Mexico. 
Miller's typical specimen of C. uniflora is not really single-flowered, but in most of the axils only one 
pod has been formed ; in one axil there are two pods, and there are the remains of the other flowers. 
81. C. viLLosa, Mill. ! Dict. n. 4. Undique pilis stellatis tomentoso-villosa. Foliola 
3-5-juga, acuminata. Legumen inter semina constrictum, articulatum, articulis mono- 
spermis ovalibus plano-compressis medio ad semen elevatis.— Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1060. 
C. astroites, Cham. et Schlecht. in Linnza, v. 597. 
Chamafistula astroites, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 451. 
Cassia geniculata, Ruiz et Pav.! in G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 440. 
