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CATHARTOCARPUS Bacillus. 
Four-leaved Cathartocarpus. 
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DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CHSALPINIEH. R, Br. \ 
CATHARTOCARPUS. _ Pers. (1805). Bactyrilobium W. (1809). 
Calyx 5-partitus, deciduus. Corolla regularis, 5-petala. ilamenta infe- 
riora arcuata. Legumen longum, teres, lignosum, pluriloculare : loculis _ 
_ pulpa farctis. Pers. syn. 1. 459. 
C. Bacillus; foliis bijugis ovatis obliquis, glandula obtusa inter infima, ra- 
cemis axillaribus pedunculatis, siliqua terete longa. Lin. suppl._231. 
sub Cassia. 
Cassia bacillaris, Willd. sp. pl. 2. 514. Hortus Bengalensis 31. Link. 
enum. ber. 1. 406. 
Cathartocarpus Bacillus. Pers. syn. 1. 459. : 
Frutex duodecim pedum glaberrimus, Folia alterna, petiolata, bijuga. 
Foliola latere interiore obliqua, utrinque glaberrima, inferiora exquisite 
ovata, superiora magis elongata. Glandula conica, obtusa, inter foliola in- 
feriora. Stipule nulla, (minime, subulate, decidue). Racemi axillares, 
solitarii, pauciflori, erecti. Pedicelli dependentes, angulati. Flores auran- 
tiaci, mediocres. Legumen omnino C. fistule, ut distingwi nequeat, sub- 
curvum, cylindricum, glaberrimum, acumine filiformi terminatum, longitu- 
dinepedali, interius isthmis interceptum, quod externe tamen non apparet, L. 
Our drawing of this plant was made many years ago, 
by the late Mr. Sydenham Edwards; but we do not know 
in what collection. It has not been figured previously, 
and does not appear in the last edition of the Hortus 
Kewensis. It is a shrubby plant, native of Surinam ; 
whence specimens were sent to Linnzus, by Dalberg. 
We observe, that Dr. Carey refers to this genus, besides 
the common Cassia fistula, Cassia rhombifolia of Roxburgh, 
and C. nodosa and marginata of the same botanist, with the 
Cassia bacillus of Geertner. It is worthy of notice, that the 
last species is stated in the Hortus Bengalensis to be a 
Malayan plant, and the C. bacillaris of the Calcutta Garden 
(which we know, from specimens from that establishment, 
to be the plant before us), to be a species introduced to 
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