Monographic Studies in Cassia (Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae). Mem (30) NYBG BRAND and the glossary expanded

and the glossary expanded

Locate in the Andes

by Peter Taylor

and cotyledons laterally divaricate in the same horizontal plane

The revision aims to improve the reputation of one of the most infamous genera of Andean plants: Cinchona

Monographic Studies in Cassia (Leguminosae Caesalpinioideae). Mem (30) NYBG BRAND and the glossary expandedThe revision of sects. Absus and Grimaldia in this work forms a third installment of a series projected toward a census of genus Cassia in the New World. Like its two predecessors, which dealt respectively with sect. Xerocalyx and subgenus Lasiorhegma, a group of some 250 (233 American) species characterized by the syndrome of bracteolate pedicels, elastically dehiscent pods, and short, deltately dilated seed funicles. The large sect. Absus (163