' 544 MR. G. BENTHAM—REVISION OF THE GENUS CASSIA. 
seem to represent the flat pods with thickened margins of Chamesenna. Perhaps Plumier may have 
transposed his memoranda, and should have described the pod of t. 77 as terete and that of t. 78. f. 9 as 
flat. In that case his descriptions would agree better with his drawings, and we should refer the former 
to C. Fistula, the latter to C. siamea, both of them in cultivation only in the West Indies. 
I should have hesitated to refer the Brazilian C. rostrata to C. biflora, the broad obtuse gland being 
very constant in the former, and the narrow erect gland very general i in the latter, but that I have met 
with several Central .American and West-Indian specimens in which the gland becomes dilated 
and obtuse, although, perhaps, not quite so much so as in the Brazilian ones. The species varies very 
much in the size and number of the flowers. ; 
The Asiatic C. divaricata, Nees, from the Indian archipelago, closely resembles in many respects the 
same var. rostrata of C. biflora, connecting it in some measure with C. glauca, next to which it is placed 
below in the section Psilorhegma; for the anthers, although very unequal, are all perfect. 
112. C. POLYPHYLLA, Jacq. Coll. iv. 104, Ic. Rar. t. 460. Pubescens. Foliola 5-15- 
juga (sæpius 10-12-juga), parva, 2-3 lin. longa, margine ciliata, cæterum glabra v. 
subtus pilosula, foliis sæpius ad nodos fasciculatis. Cetera C. biflore. “Legumen 
semipedale.” 
C. marginata, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 444, ex Vog. 
Hab. Tropical America: Portorico, Pavon, and also perhaps some other West-Indian 
islands. 
Pavon's specimen from herb. Lambert, now in herb. Mus. Brit., answers precisely to Jacquin's figure. 
Two others in herb. Hook., one from Jamaica, Distin, the other from St. Domingo, Mackenzie, have not 
the leaves clustered, and the leaflets are rather larger, but much smaller and more numerous (8 to 12 pairs) 
than in C. biflora, to which Grisebach would refer them. These specimens seem to me to connect the 
two species, but to be nearer to C. polyphylla than to C. biflora. The pod is rather broad. 
113. C. VICLEFOLIA, Benth., sp. n. Molliter pubescens. Foliola 5-7 juga, angusta, 
supra puberula, subtus molliter tomentosa. Legumen elongatum, inter semina articu- 
latim secedens. 
Hab. Tropical America: Columbia, Fendler, n. 2230, 2231. 
Frutex ramulis petiolisque molliter rufo- v. canescenti-pubescentibus. Foliola oblonga, obtusiuscula, 
mucronata, basi obliqua, ultima pollicaria v. paullo longiora, inferiora decrescentia. Stipulæ subulatæ. 
Pedunculi ad nodos vetustos plerique biflori. Flores ampli C. multiflore. Sepala valde inæqualia, inte- 
riora orbiculata, 3-4 lin. longa. Petala majora pollicaria. Antheræ longiores tenuiter longeque 
rostratæ, 4 intermediæ paullo minores, rostro brevissimo inflexo. Legumen semipedale v. longius, 
3-31 lin. latum, planum. 
The foliage is nearly that of C. incarnata, but more pubescent; the inflorescence that of C. biflora. 
The character derived from the articulation of the pod requires perhaps further confirmation. It appears 
to be constant in the few specimens I have seen of this species; but I have sometimes, though rarely, 
seen symptoms of it in other species allied to C. biflora. 
114. C. FoLIOLOSA, Benth., sp. n. Foliola 20-30-juga, lineari-oblonga, conferta, glabra; 
glandula i inter inferiora. 
Hab. Guatemala, Skinner in herb. Lindley. 
Tota glaberrima v. pilis paucis parvis prsesertim in inflorescentia conspersa. Foliola obtusa, basi parum 
inæquilatera, sessilia, 4-6 lin. longa, crassiuscula, uninervia ; glandula longiuscula acuta inter par infimum. 
Petiolus communis subbipolliearis. Stipule rigidule setaceæ, subpersistentes. Pedunculi axillares biflori - 
versus apices ramorum conferti et flores omnino C. biflore. Antherz 3 inferiores majores, rostro tereti 
apice subdilatato, Legumen junius planum, pilis adpressis conspersum, perfectum, haud suppetit. 
