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Cassiinae pt 1 NY-Botanical_gardens_Vol. 35_1 - Copy.pdf - Antbase

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266 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. <strong>35</strong><br />

typus, GH! clastotypus + photo, <strong>NY</strong>\—Cassia simulans (Britton & Rose) Lundell, Phytologia<br />

1: 216. 1937.<br />

Characters as given in key; hts potentiaUy up to 9 pairs.—Collections: 31.^<br />

Fig. 23 (fl, anthers, pod, seed).<br />

Grassy or stony hiUsides in the oak-beh, disturbed thickets, sometimes in<br />

hedges, mosriy 1000-2250 but in Sinaloa down to 200 m, scattered across s. and<br />

s.-w. Mexico, the popularions remotely disjunct: abundant in highland Chiapas<br />

(mun. Cintalapa e. to mun. Comitan); local on the Gulf slope of Sa. Madre Ori­<br />

ental in Veracruz (Alpariahua to Orizaba); Sa. Madre del Sur in w. Michoacan<br />

(mun. Coalcoman), e. Guerrero (mun. Tixria de Guerrero) and adj. Oaxaca (Putla;<br />

Juxriahuaca), and apparenriy isolated near 24°15' in the foothiUs of Sa. Madre<br />

Occidental in Sinaloa (mun. Cosala).—Fl. (VI-)VII-XII.—C/z//^ de Gato (Vera­<br />

cruz); hediondilla (Oaxaca).<br />

73. Senna lindheimeriana (Scheele) Irwin & Barneby, Phytologia 44(7): 500. 1979.<br />

Cassia lindheimeriana [sic] Scheele, Linnaea 21: 457. 1848.—". . .<br />

nordhch von Neubraunfels [=New Braunfels, Comal Co., Texas]: Lin­<br />

dheimer."—Holotypus, tB; neoholotypus, provisionally proposed by<br />

Isely, 1975, p. 204; Lindheimer III/380, <strong>NY</strong>! isotypi, GH, U0\—Earleocassia<br />

lindheimeriana Britton ex Britton & Rose, N. Amer. Fl.<br />

23(4): 249. 1930.<br />

Cassia lindheimeriana sensu Bentham, 1871, p. 530; Wooton & Standley, 1915, p. 334; Kearney<br />

& Peebles, 1951, p. 406; Turner, 1959, p. 76, map 38 (Texas); Isely, 1975, p. 109, map 47<br />

(U.S.A.); Correll & Johnston, 1970, p. 791.<br />

Stout, amply leafy herbs with 1-several erect or assurgent stems (2-)3-12(-15)<br />

dm arising annually from a blackish root and ultimately a shortly branched caudex,<br />

the stems and lf-stalks densely pUosulous or subvelutinous with fine erect<br />

or widely descending straight hairs up to 0.3-1 mm usually mixed with either<br />

shorter, antrorsely accumbent or minute clavate yellowish hairs (frequently with<br />

both) and the inflorescence and some lfts sometimes charged in addition with few<br />

random fine weak setae up to 1.5-2.5 mm, the palhd-green lfts subappressed-<br />

pUosulous on both faces, usually yellowish-green above and ashen beneath, the<br />

inflorescence of axUlary racemes at first lateral to stem and either longer or shorter<br />

than the subtending h, later or sooner forming a shortly exserted corymbose<br />

panicle.<br />

Stipules erratically ascending, spreading or deflexed, the herbaceous lance-<br />

attenuate or -caudate blade 8-18 x 1-2.5 mm, early dry caducous.<br />

Lvs below inflorescence 6-16 cm (some distal ones, not further described,<br />

shorter); petiole including firm, scarcely swollen pulvinus (l-)1.5-4.5(-6) cm, at<br />

middle 0.6-1.7 mm diam, bluntly 3-ribbed dorso-laterally, narrowly grooved ventraUy;<br />

rachis 1.5-8(-10.5) cm; glands between all pairs or aU but the distal pair<br />

of lfts stipitate, in profile (1-) 1.5-5 mm, the slender stipe pUosulous, the narrowly<br />

subuliform or hnear-fusiform acute head 0.1-0.<strong>35</strong> mm diam, not or httle wider<br />

than stipe; lfts 4-8, in most lvs of most plants 5-7 pairs, the proximal pair smallest<br />

but otherwise little graduated, the penultimate often a httle longer than the distal,<br />

aU asymmetricaUy oblong-, ovate- or obovate-elli<strong>pt</strong>ic, obtuse mucronate or apiculately<br />

acute, the larger ones 20-46(-50) x 8-18(-20) mm, 1.9-3.2(-3.5) times as<br />

long as wide, at base cordate on proximal and either rounded or cuneate on distal<br />

side, the plane margin often a trifle thickened, the midrib carinate dorsaUy, im­<br />

mersed or weakly prominulous above, giving rise dorsaUy on proximal or on both

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