Lee XLVII. § CESALPINIEH (OLIVER). [ Cassia. 
5. ©. Mannii, Oliv. A glabrous tree attaining 60 ft.; branches 
terete, smooth. Leaves 9-15 in. long; leaflets approximated in 1-9 
pairs or scattered, elliptical or ovate-oblong, finely or sometimes broadly 
acute, more or less rounded at the base, glabrous, reticulate above, 
midrib prominent beneath, 13-8 in. long, 1—14 in. broad; petiolules 
2 lines. Racemes short, terminal and lateral, 24—6 in. long, ebracteate. 
Pedicels spreading, angular or sulcate, 1-2 in. long more or less. 
Sepals membranous, elliptical or ovate-elliptical obtuse, veiny, 4—5 lines 
long. Petals about ? in. long, lamina ovate or ovate-elliptical obtuse, 
strongly veined, with a narrow distinct claw. Longer stamens ex- 
ceeding the petals, filaments filiform not dilated. Ovary glabrous. 
Legume not seen, 
Upper Guinea. Princes Island, Mann! 
Dr. Welwitsch collected in the province of Cazengo, Angola, a Cassia very nearly 
allied to C. Mannii, but differing in having obtuse and emarginate leaflets. It may 
prove a distinct species, but the specimens hardly enable me to decide. 
6. C. Petersiana. C. Bolle in Peters’ Mossamb, Bot. 13. Shrub; 
extremities rachis of the leaves and peduncles thinly pubescent pube- 
rulous or glabrate. Leaves 5-10 in. long ; leaflets usually 6—9-jugate, 
broadly lanceolate ovate or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, 
rounded at the base, glabrous and reticulate above, paler with sparse 
adpressed short hairs or glabrescent beneath, 14-24 in. long, $—1 in. 
broad, shortly petiolulate; common petiole thinly pubescent or nearly 
glabrous, with a linear or subconical gland between the leaflets, which 
would seem to be occasionally either deciduous or obsolete. Stipules 
half-cordiform or -reniform, sessile, }—-3 in. long, deciduous or partially 
persisting. Flowers in simple or branched corymbs or short racemes, 
terminal and from the upper axils, forming irregular leafy or much 
bracteate panicles at the ends of the branches. Bracts pubescent, the 
lower broadly rotundate, subcordate, apiculate, the upper ovate, cymbi- 
form, with thickened gland-like curved bracteoles; the principal branches 
of the inflorescence subtended by rudimentary or obsolete leaves, the 
broad stipules of which are often fully developed. Pedicels 4-1} in., 
pubescent or puberulous. Sepals very unequal, the two outer muc 
smaller, thinly pubescent, three inner subpetaloid. Petals clawed, the 
posterior smaller; anterior exceeding the stamens. Three anterior 
anthers much larger, linear, curved, 3—4 lines long ; four intermediate 
dehiscing by terminal pores, three posterior abortive, cordate or ovate. 
Ovary silky-pubescent. Legume not seen. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia (a robust pubescent form, the longer clawed elliptic-obovate 
petals exceeding 1 in.), Schimper! 
Mozamb. Distr. Quirimba and Mozambique, Dr. Peters! Near Senna, Dr. 
Kirk! lower Shire Valley, Dr. Meller! 
C. Delagoensis, Harv. (Fl. Capensis, ii. 272), found at Natal and Delagoa Bay, is @ 
near ally of this species, differing, apparently, in its much smaller, narrower, and more 
numerous leaflets; with obscure venation. 
We have a single specimen in flower only from Zambesi (Dr. Kirk), apparently very 
nearly allied to C. Petersiana, having the same stipules, but the bracts are caducous 
long before expansion of the flowers, and the leaflets thinly pubescent above are dis- 
