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

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40 MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN [VOL. 33<br />

1. Petals oblong-elli<strong>pt</strong>ic (9-)10-20 x 5-9(-10) mm; sigmoid filaments 18-30 mm; s.-e. Mmas<br />

Gerais, s.-ward from ±21°S, and Rio de Janeiro to Parana. 10b. var. velloziana (p. 4U).<br />

10a. Cassia ferruginea (Schrader) DeCandolle var. ferruginea. Bactyrilobium fer­<br />

rugineum Schrader, 1821, I.e., sens. str.—". . . [der Prinz Maximilian<br />

von Neuwied ... in Brasilien gesammelten Gewachse . . .] n. 27.<br />

Holotypus not seen; isotypus, fragm. + drawing, sent to DeCandolle<br />

by Schrader as Cassia ferruginea, G-DC!—A spm labelled "C. sta­<br />

minea, leg. Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied," s. loc, M (hb. Mart.)! is<br />

possibly isotypic.—Cathartocarpus ferrugineus (Schrader) G. Don,<br />

Gen. Hist. Diehl. Pl. 2: 453. 1825. Cassia brasiliana var. p ['^C] fer­<br />

ruginea (Schrader) Vogel, Syn. Gen. Cass. 11. 1837.<br />

Cassia staminea Vogel, Syn. Gen. Cass. 14 & Linnaea 11: 536, descr. ampliat. 1837.—"In<br />

Brasiha: Sellow leg. pr. Pitangui et Fac[enda] de Caxoeira [=w.-n.-w. of Belo Horizonte,<br />

Minas Gerais]."—Evidently described from at least 2 collections at fB, one differentiated<br />

as an unnamed forma /8; Sellow s.n., K! = <strong>NY</strong> Neg. 1438, may dupHcate one of these but<br />

lacks data of locality.—Equated with C. ferruginea by Bentham, 1870, p. 95.<br />

Cassia ferruginea sensu Bentham, 1870, p. 95 & 1871, p. 516, maj. ex parte, exclus. syn. Velloz,<br />

& Saldanh. nonnullisque speciminibus e Brasiha austro-orientah, quae var. vellozianae referimus.<br />

Characters as given in key.—CoUections: 23.<br />

Wooded valley slopes, gaUery-margins, cerradao, and surviving in capoeira or<br />

as a fence-tree, mostly 200-950 m, scattered around and within the basin of Rio<br />

Sao Francisco from centr. Minas Gerais n. to Sa. de Araripe in s. Ceara (lat.<br />

±7-20°S), w. to the upper Tocanrins in centr. Goias and reappearing locally on<br />

the Atlantic slope in s.-e. Bahia at 5-300 m, both in coastal wet forest and in<br />

mata de cipo of the Paraguagii and Contas vaUeys; here and there cultivated for<br />

shade and ornament and locally spontaneous (as in Parque do Guara, D.F.).—Fl.<br />

X-II.—Canafistula preta.<br />

10b. Cassia ferruginea (Schrader) DeCandolle var. velloziana Irwin & Barneby,<br />

var. nov., a var. ferruginea petalis saepius brevioribus 1-2 (nee<br />

1.5-2.8) cm longis semper angustioribus (minus quam 1 cm latis), staminum<br />

3 longiorum filamento breviori 18-30 (nee 30-46) mm longo<br />

patriaque meridionali diversa.—BRAZIL. Guanabara: Floresta da Ti­<br />

juca, s.d., flor., Glaziou 10696.—Holotypus, <strong>NY</strong>; isotypus, P.<br />

Cassia javanica sensu Vellozo, Fl. Flum. 168. 1825 & Ic. 4: t. 73. 18<strong>35</strong>.—"'Habitat silvis maritimis,<br />

ac mediterraneis.''—Only provisionally equated by Vellozo with C. javanica Linnaeus<br />

and recognized by Bentham (1870, p. 95) as synonymous with C. ferruginea sens. lat.—Non<br />

C. javanica Linnaeus, 1753.<br />

Cassia ferruginea sensu Bentham, 1870, p. 95 & 1871, p. 516, amb. ex parte, quoad syn. supra<br />

cit.<br />

Characters as given in key.—Collections: 15.<br />

Wet woodlands, gaUery-forest, sometimes abundant in disturbed or regenerating<br />

forest, ±300-750 m, discontinuously dispersed from the headwaters of rios<br />

Doce and Grande in s. Minas Gerais and coastal mountains of Rio de Janeiro<br />

s.-e. to e.-centr. and n.-e. Parana, lat. ±22-25°S, in its native range preserved<br />

for ornament and shade and sometimes planted about dweUings.—Fl. XI-I.—Canafistula,<br />

c. preta; banana de macaco.<br />

11. Cassia fastuosa WUldenow ex Bentham in Martius, Fl. Bras. 15(2): 95. 1870.—<br />

Typus infra sub var. fastuosa indicatur.<br />

PotentiaUy massive trees with broadly rounded crown, reaching 40 m with<br />

trunk 1 m diam but commonly seen 8-18 m with trunk 1.5-6(-8) dm diam and

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