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the fewer leaflets and the more slender, diffuse, and less pube 
stems. a 
assia savannarum (Britton), comb. nov. Chamae 
narum Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, xliii. 463 (1916). 
This species is closely related to C. aeschinomene DC. but t 
leaflets seem to be constantly much smaller, the midrib very ¢ 
centric, and the plant much less robust. A specimen collected I 
A. A. Taylor (no. 124) and distributed as C. ig ake is to ee 
ferred here. 
Cassia granulata Seen comb. nov. C. pores 
var. Rewer 4 Urban, Symb. Ant. i. 318 (1899). ecrts 
granulata (Urban) Britton, Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. ii. 41 ra918). 
C. lineata Sw. scarcely differs from this species except that ie 
petiolar gland is essentially sessile instead of long-stalked. 
this seems, in this genus, always to be a constant and the 
good specific character. C. granulata is not so closely re 
C. portoricensis Urban as it is to C. lineata because the leave 
the forme? are lustrous and the gland also is subsessile. . 
Cassia pinetorum (Britton), comb. Char 
torum Britton, Bull. Torr _ Club, xliv. 7 (1917). 
This plant is related to the preceding but is 
narrow — and cuspidate leaflets. 
Cassia Tuerckheimii (Britton), comb. 
Tuerckheimii Britton, Bull. Torr. Club, xliv. 8 917). ic 
I have not seen the type of this species and am referring 
with some hesitancy a specimen collected big : 
acter which is very striking. It differs, however, mt 
siderably smaller leaflets but the large leafl 
“in fields,’ may be due, in some part at | load to tie 
Fuertes’ sche grew in pine woods. 
Cassia a L., var. Swartzii_ (Wickstr.), 
C. Swartzii  Wickstr. V et. Acad. Handl. 1825. 430 
crista Swartzii (Wickstr.). Britton, Bull. Torr . Club, * 
Dr. Britton, 1. ¢., restricts C. glandulosa to Jamaica § 
guishes it from C. Swartzii by the presence of pu sed Pee 
under surface of the leaflets. ‘This character might bee 
cally, I suppose, if it held, but unfortunately the leaflets 
