Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
December 1773
Primary Source Reference:
"Vegetaux de St. Domingue ramassées dans mon Second voyage," December 1773, Du Simitière Scraps, Library Company of Philadelphia, No. 55, p. 4
Notes:
This species may have been Senna pendula, which was known as canéfice bâtard and casse-hallier. Joel Timyan, Bwa yo: Important Trees of Haiti (Washington, D.C., 1996), p. 262
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Cassier ou canefice
Current Common Name:
Easter Cassia; Christmas Senna
Current Scientific Name
Senna pendula
