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184 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 35
Brasilia: Sellow leg. inter Campos et Victoria [either s. Espirito Santo or adjacent Rio d
Janeiro]."—Holotypus, tB = F Neg. 1705\ neoholotypus, Sellow s.n., K! - IPA Neg.
1448.—Equated with C. macranthera by Bentham, 1870, p. 104.
Cassia macranthera sensu Vogel, 1837, p. 40; Bentham, 1870, p. 104; 1871, p. 524.
Arborescent, flowering at 3-9 m with trunk 6-15 cm diam, when free-standing
with rounded crown, somerimes in closed woodland incipiently sarmentose, the
branchlets and fohage strigulose with narrowly ascending or truly appressed hairs
0.2-0.35 mm, the lfts often glabrous above; gland often but not always present
behind distal pulvinules; lfts mosriy elliptic acute; panicle when mature leafless
and far-exserted; ovules 154-192; pod mosriy 1.5-3.5 dm.—Collections: 73.
Open woodlands ofthe Arianric slope and inland in gaUery forest and chapadao,
spreading and persisring in capoeira, 10-1450 m, coastal hiUs, Sa. dos Orgaos and
Sa. da Mantequeira in Rio de Janeiro (with Guanabara) and s. Espirito Santo, n.
along the highlands of s. Sa. do Espinhago to Sas. de Caraga and do Cipo and
Pico de Itambe in Minas Gerais, also cultivated within and beyond its native
range, as a garden and street tree (e.g. in Sao Paulo, Curitiba and Florianopo-
lis)._Fl. (I-)II-IV(-V).
42b. Senna macranthera (Colladon) var. nervosa (Vogel) Irwin & Barneby, comb.
nov. C. nervosa Vogel, Syn. Gen. Cass. 39 & Linnaea 11: 682 (descr.
amphat.). 1837.—"In Brasilia: SeUow leg. ad Barra do Brumado [near
44°15'W, 20°10'S, s.-centr. Minas Gerais]."—Holotypus, fB = FNeg.
1746\ neoholotypus, Sellow s.n., K! = IPA Neg. 915 = NY Neg.
1445; clastotypus ex B (fragm), F! isotypus, W!—C. speciosa var.
nervosa (Vogel) Bentham in Martius, Fl. Bras. 15(2): 103. 1970.
Cassia bijuga Vogel, Syn. Gen. Cass. 17 & Linnaea 11: 661 (descr. ampliat.). 1837.—"In Bras
Sellow leg."—Holotypus, fB; neoholotypus, SeUow s.n., K! = IPA Neg. 916 = NY Neg.
1444; isotypus, W!—Equated with C. speciosa by Bentham, 1870, p. 103; 1871, p. 524.
Habit and stature of var. macranthera, differing only in the longer and looser
(often lutescent or golden) vesture of lvs and inflorescence, the lfts either elliptic
acute as var. macranthera or varying to eUiptic-ovate or obovate and obtuse;
ovules (120-) 140-208.—Collections: 68.—Pecegueiro bravo (bark yields a brown
dye).
Gallery forest, thickets along streams, chapadao, outcrops in cerrado, thriving
in disturbed or rehc woodland and sometimes in hedges, mostly 7OO-135O(-1600)
m, interruptedly widespread over the highlands of s.-e. Goias (including Distrito
Federal) and w. Minas Gerais s.-ward from lat. 13° (near Arraias) just into Rio
de Janeiro (Itatiaia), e. across S. Francisco valley in Minas to s. and n.-centr.
Sa. do Espinhago, thence (transient into var. micans and var. calycosa) extending
into coast forest and disturbed woodlands of s.-e. Bahia; extensively cultivated
within and beyond its narive range, an abundant and decorarive street tree in
Brasilia, Sao Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and other ciries of s.-e. Brazil,
coUected as early as 1827 in e. Sao Paulo by BurcheU but not recorded there as
native in modern times.—Fl. (XII-)I-IV.
This is the Fedegoso commonly cultivated as "C. speciosa'' in parks and
avenues in southeastern BrazU, rivalled for popularity only by the equaUy showy
and floriferous Senna multijuga and Cassia fistula. Except for the pilosulous
pubescence and a greater range in leaflet-outhne it is essentially hke var. mac­
ranthera, the flower and pod being identical, as is the gland, often but not always