S12 A COMMENTAIIY ON THE SECOND BOOK 
the variation of red and yellow flowers a mere accidental 
circumstance, not even constituting what botanists call a 
variety. His quotation is also rendered doubtful by Bur- 
man, who, in his observation, quotes as synonymous the 
Cassia Fistula Indica Jlore cameo CI. Jagerl of Breynius, 
which is not the Cassia Javanica of Linnaeus, but the 
Cassia haclUus of Gaertner (de Sem, ii. 313.) and Rox- 
burgh (Hort. Beng. 31.) 
I am inclined to think, that I met with the red-flowered 
kind in the district of Chatigang, where it is called Ban- 
dur lati (Simise bacillum), and from thence sent it to Dr 
Roxburgh, who called it Cassia nodosa^ on account of the 
knots on three of the filaments, of which the round bodies 
in the centre of the flowers, in the figure of Rumphius, 
may be intended for a representation. If I am right in 
my conjecture, and if this be the Cassia Fistula Javanica 
Jlore cameo of Commeline, the name nodosa^ however ap- 
plicable, must be abandoned ; but my plant may be the 
C F. silvestris jlore ruhro, without being either Cassia 
Javanica of Linnaeus, or the C. bacillus of Gaertner, nei- 
ther of whom quoted Rumphius; and in this case the 
name nodosa should be retained, provided the round bodies 
in the figure of Rumphius are meant to represent the knots 
on the filaments. In 1798, I sent to Sir J. Banks speci- 
mens of this tree, which differs from that figured by Rum- 
phius, chiefly in having more pointed and larger leaflets. 
Arbor mediocris. Ramuli subangulati, alterni, bifarii, pubescentes, 
virides. Folia bifaria, alterrja, abrupte pinnata, non glandulosa. Fo- 
liola 8-10-juga, petiolata, ovato-oblonga, integerrima, acuta, mucronata, 
supra nitidi, subtus nuda, venosa, plana, superioribus sensim loiigiori- 
bus uncias 3| longis, 1| latis. Petiolus communis basi incrassato sub- 
angulatus, brevissimus, pubescens. E-achis supra subcarinatus, sulca- 
tus, pubescens, mucrone subulato terminatus. Petioli partiales sub- 
oppositi, teretes, puliescentes, brevissimi. Stipulfe laterales geminae, 
deciduoe, lunatae, adnatpe, erectee, integerrima^, utrinque acuta?, parvre. 
