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1982] CASSIINAE—SENNA 121<br />

Chamaefistula hemicardia Pittier, Arb. y Arbust. Nuev. Venezuela, Decad. 6-8: 91. 1927.—<br />

"Miranda: Alrededores de la estacion Las Mostazas [entre Los Teques y Tejerias], en el<br />

Gran Ferro-Carril de Venezuela, 963 m; fl. Nov. 1924 (A. Allart 199, tipo)."—Holotypus,<br />

VEN! = <strong>NY</strong> Neg. 6322; isotypi (fr jun), A! & (fl), <strong>NY</strong>, VS\—Cassia hemicardia (Pittier)<br />

Pittier, Cat. Pl. Venez., 3rd Conf. Interamer. Agric. Caracas 371. 1945, pro syn.—Ch. hemicardia<br />

sensu Pittier, 1928, p. 124.<br />

Chamaefistula pumila Britton & Rose ex Pittier, Bol. Ministerio de Relac. Exter. 1-3: 122.<br />

1928.—". . . alrededores de Curucuti y Tacagua, D[istrito] F[ederal, Venezuela], de 50-900<br />

m. de altitud."—Lectoholotypus, labelled "Foot of Curucuti valley, 150 m, . . . 30.VIII. 1927<br />

(fl), Pittier 12452'' and annotated ""pumila'' by Britton, <strong>NY</strong>! isolectotypi. A, US!<br />

Chamaefistula tortiramis Pittier, Cat. Pl. Venez., 3rd Conf. Interamer. Agric. Caracas 372, 1945,<br />

sine descr.—"[Venezuela, Distrito Federal:] Entre Catia y Blandin [20.XL 1926 (fr)] (Pittier<br />

12247)."—Specimina authent., VEN! = <strong>NY</strong> Neg. 6325, <strong>NY</strong>, US!<br />

Cassia oxyphylla sensu Humboldt, Bonpland & Kunth, Nov. Gen. & Sp. 6(qu): 342. 1824; Bentham,<br />

1871, p. 521, t. 61, ex parte, exclus. syn. C. fagifolia, C. hartwegii. Chamaefistula<br />

oxyphylla sensu Pittier, 1928, p. 124.<br />

Variable in pubescence, the fohage and young branchlets thinly strigulose with<br />

appressed hairs to 0.2-0.4 mm or thinly to densely pUosulous with erect or loosely<br />

incurved ones to 0.3-0.65 mm; petioles mostly 1-3 cm; long petals (6-)7-12(-14)<br />

mm; otherwise as given in key to varieties.—Collections: 98.<br />

Thickets on sunny hillsides, stream-banks, shady ravines, sometimes in humid<br />

forest, 15-1300 m, widespread along the n. slope and near crest on s. slope of<br />

Cordillera Costanera in Venezuela, from Sucre and adjoining Anzoategui w. to<br />

IMaracaibo Basin in Zulia, s.-w. along the e. cordUlera of the Andes to Trujillo<br />

and Portuguesa, extending feebly into Norte de Santander in Colombia.—Fl.<br />

(III-)V-XII.—Candelilla; Cigarron; Brusca.<br />

10b. Senna oxyphylla (Kunth) var. hartwegii (Bentham) Irwin & Barneby, stat.<br />

nov. C. hartwegU Bentham, Pl. Hartw. 117. 1843 C'Hartwegi").—<br />

"[Hartweg] 652 . . . Prope GuayaquU."—Holotypus, collected in fl in<br />

IV, K (hb. Benth.)! = <strong>NY</strong> Neg. 1559.—Chamaefistula hartwegU (Bentham)<br />

Killip ex Litrie, Caribbean Forester 9(3): 243. 1948.<br />

Hornotinous branchlets densely and foliage more thinly pilosulous with spreading<br />

hairs 0.2-0.4 mm; petioles 2.5-5.5 cm; long petals 10-16 mm; otherwise as<br />

given in key to varieties.—Collections: 17.<br />

Forest margins and thickets successor to forest-clearing, 10-700 m, locally<br />

plentiful on the coastal plain and first foothills of the Andes around the Gulf of<br />

GuayaquU in Los Rios, Guayas and El Oro, and Bahia de Caraquez in Manabi,<br />

Ecuador.—Fl. IV-VIII.<br />

11. Senna fruticosa (IVliller) Irwin & Barneby, comb. nov. Cassia fruticosa IVLiller,<br />

Gard. Diet. ed. 8, Cassia no. 10. 1768.—''Cassia fruticosa tetraphylla,<br />

siliquis erectis. Houst[on] IVlss.," the data amplified by IVLartyn in<br />

IVliller, Gard. Diet. ed. 9, 1: Cassia no. 39. 1797.—"Native of La Vera<br />

Cruz . . . received . . . from Dr. Houston."—Holotypus, ticketed<br />

'Cassia tetraphylla . . . folioUs bijugatis ovato-lanceolatis etc.,' BM<br />

(hb. MiU.)! = <strong>NY</strong> Neg. 57 = BH Neg. 5167.—Chamaefistula fruticosa<br />

(Miller) Pittier, Bol. Ministerio de R. R. E. E. 1-3: 122. 1928.—<br />

Incorrecriy equated by Bentham, 1871, p. 521, with C. bacillaris<br />

Linn. f.<br />

Cassia densiflora Martens & Galeotti, Bull. Acad. Brux. 10(9): 304 (=Enum. Syn. Pl. Phanerogam.<br />

Mex. 9(1): 3. 1843.—"Coll. H. Galeotti No. 3183 ... sur les rochers granitiques, pres<br />

de I'Ocean Pacifique (etat d'Oaxaca) . . . Octobre."—Holotypus, BR! = BH Neg. 2498\

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