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6. Cassia hirsuta Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 378; Baker in Plook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 
2 (1878) 263; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 70. 
Cassia longisiliqua Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 338, non Linn. 
Cassia sulcata Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 236, non DC. 
Luzon, Province of Bizal, Bur. Sci. 6525 Robinson, For. Bur. 1918, 3428 Ahern’s 
collector: Manila, Merrill 4 099 . 
Native names: Balbalatungan (Manila) ; tighiman, ex Blanco. 
A native of tropical America, now widely distributed in the tropics of the 
world. The Philippine specimens cited above have much shorter hairs than 
Indian anfl Malayan material in our herbarium, so named, and the peduncles are 
mostly more than two-flowered. 
7. Cassia sophera Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 379; Baker 1. c. 262; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 
(1880) 70; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 116. 
Luzon, Province of Union, Elmer 560 4-' Province of Laguna, Elmer: Province 
of Ilocos Norte, For. Bur. 13802 Merritt c£ Darling. 
Originally an American weed, now cosmopolitan in the tropics; similar to and 
closely allied to the next, which, however, is much more common and widely 
distributed in the Philippines. 
8. Cassia occidentalis Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 377; Baker 1. c. 262; Blanco FI. 
Filip. (1837) 338, ed. 2 (1845) 236; P.-Vill. 1. c.; Naves in Blanco FI. Filip, 
ed. 3, pi. 73. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 16482 Bacani: Province of Isabela, 
Bur. Sci. 8101 Ramos: Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 14015 Merritt & Darling: 
Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 1943 Borden: Manila, Elmer 5516, McGregor 43, 
Topping 3, Merrill 391: Province of Tayabas, Whitford 541: Province of Albay, 
Bur. Sci. 6304 Robinson. Polillo, Bur. Sci. 9169 Robinson. Mindoro, For. Bur. 
5496 Merritt, Merrill 3339. Tablas, McGregor 340. Panay, Yoder 27. Min- 
danao, Province of Surigao, Allen 143: Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens 472: District 
of Davao, DeVore <t Hoover 150. 
Native names: cabalcabalan, tambalisa (Mindoro) ; tighiman, ex Blanco. 
A weed in waste places at low altitudes throughout the Philippines; probably 
originally American, but now cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
9. Cassia a lata Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 378; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 
(1878) 264; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 70; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 339, ed. 2 
(1845) 237, ed. 3, 2: 77; Naves 1. c. ed. 3, pi. 124his. 
Herpetica alata Raf. Sylva Tellur. (1838) 123; W. F. Wight ex Safford in 
Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 293. 
Luzon, Province of Abra, For. Bur. 14565 Darling: Province of Union, Elmer 
5597 : Manila, Topping 4, Merrill 3427: Province of Rizal, For. Bur. 342 7 Ahern’s 
collector: Province of Bataan, Williams 318, For. Bur. 2198, 2583 Meyer, Elmer 
7015 : Province of Tayabas, Ritchie 76 : Province of Albay, Bur. Sci. 6245 Robinson. 
Mindoro, Merrill 1256. Busuanga, Merrill 434- Balabac, Bur. Sci. 475 Man- 
gubat. Panay, Copeland s. n. Negros, For. Bur. 4204 Everett. Cebu, Bur. Sci. 
1743 McGregor. Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 9202 Whitford & 
Hutchinson: Province of Surigao, Bolster 202: Lake Lanao, Mrs. Clemens s. n. 
Basilan, For. Bur. 3957 Hutchinson. 
Native names: Acapulco, capurco (Manila, Zamboanga) ; palochina (Busuanga, 
Negros) ; bicas-bicas (Marinduque) ; bayabasan (Tayabas) ; suhting (Surigao) ; 
pacagoncon (Bataan) ; andadasi, adadasi (Union, Abra) ; sonting, catanda, casitas, 
gamot sa buni, pacayomcom castila, ex Blanco. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines in waste places about settlements, etc., 
and undoubtedly of American origin ; now cosmopolitan in the tropics of the world. 
