276 XLVII. § CHSALPINIEH (OLIVER). [ Cassia. 
tent. Flowers in long erect axillary or apparently terminal stoutly 
eee eaaais racemes. Bracts coloured, ovate or elliptical, obtuse or 
roadly pointed, imbricating at first, early deciduous, $—1 in. long. 
Pedicels {-} in. Sepals coloured membranous, nearly equal in length. 
Two anterior stamens with enlarged strongly curved anthers about 
5 lines long. Legume 2-valved, thinly but firmly coriaceous, linear 
apiculate, 5-6 in. long, 4—? in. broad, each valve with a very pro- 
minent crenate longitudinal wing extending the entire length of the 
valve and incurved towards the ventral suture. Seeds rhomboid- 
cuneate, compressed; cotyledons sigmoid, in transverse section occu- 
pying the median third or half of the seed. 
Pha Guinea. Sierra Leone, Barter! Abbeokuta, Barter! Gaboon river, 
ann: 
Widely spread in the Tropics of both hemispheres, though probably only indigenous 
in America. 
14. C. podocarpa, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 259 (ea descr.) A 
glabrous shrub or small tree of 15 ft.; branches terete, smooth. Leaves 
ample 9-14 in. long; leaflets membranous in 4 or 5 pairs, elliptical 
obtuse mucronulate; the upper larger leaflets 4-6 in. long, 2-23 in. 
broad; petiolules 1-2 lines. Common petiole eglandular. Stipules 
ovate-lanceolate, } in. long, more or less deciduous. Racemes dense, 
at first strobiliform, solitary from the upper axils on long erect naked 
ee at length equalling or exceeding the leaves. Bracts im- 
ricate, ovate, obtuse, deciduous. Pedicels 4} in. Sepals subequal, 
obtuse, glabrous. Petals obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse, venose, 
clawed. Two of the anterior stamens with enlarged curved anthers 
4-5 lines long. Legumes spreading or the fruit-pedicels recurved, 
straight or nearly so, broadly linear, flat, thinly coriaceous or firmly 
papery, shining, 2-valved, the thin pericarp depressed between the 
(15-20) seeds when dry, 33-44 in. long, 6—7 lines broad, tipped with 
the curved slender remains of the style. Fully developed seeds not 
seen.— C. Afzeliana, Vogel in Linnea, xv. 70. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Fernando Po, Mann! Lagos, Barter! 
Nearly allied to C. strobilaeea, H. B. K., of Tropical America. C. strobilacea, how- 
ever, has 10-12-jugate broadly and strictly oblong leaflets, pubescent at least under- 
neath. Dr. Vogel described this species with hairy leaves. Our specimens are glabrous, 
and the type in the British Museum appeared to me the same on a cursory inspection. 
15. C. didymobotrya, Fresen. in Flora, 1839, 53 (ea deser.) A shrub 
or small tree of 7-10 ft.; branches and leaves at first puberulous or 
finely pubescent. Leaves 6—12 (—16) in. long ; rachis pubescent, plane or 
slightly convex above, sometimes faintly sulcate when dry; eg andular 
or with a rudimentary gland between some of the leaflets ; jeaflets in 
8-16 pairs, oval-oblong or oblanceolate-oblong, apex rounded with a 
conspicuous slender mucro, obliquely rounded at the base, finely pubes- 
cent or nearly glabrous at length, 1-2 or 2} in. long, 5—9 lines road ; 
subsessile or petiolules $ line. Stipules ovate-rotundate, apiculate, 
reflexed, deciduous, less than } in. long. Racemes simple, erect, 4-1] ft. 
