Cassia. | XLVII. § CHSALPINIEE (OLIVER). _ 277 
long, from the axils of the uppermost leaves, solitary or from 2 or 8 to 
6 or 8 collected about the ends of the branches, e ualling or overtop- 
ping the leaves. Pedicels 4-1 in. Flowers at first closely packed 
with elliptical or ovate imbricating caducous bracts } in. long more or 
less. Sepals nearly equal in length, the posterior broader, obtuse. 
Petals obtuse, strongly veined, very shortly clawed. Two of the 
anterior anthers much enlarged, curved, 5-6 lines long. Legume 
2-valved, flat, linear-oblong, slightly sinuous in our specimens, nar- 
rowed below into a stipes of }—} in., and above to the persistent base of 
the style ; 3-4 in. long, ? in. broad. Valves thinly coriaceous, trans- 
versely depressed between the (9-16) seeds when dry. Seeds hori- 
zontal, obovate-oblong, with a narrow linear areole on each face, com- 
pressed in the same plane as the valves ; cotyledons enclosed between. 
moderate layers of adicimate in transverse section of the seed extending 
from end to end, slightly sinuous or plane.—C. bracteosa, Welw. mss. 
Wile Land. Madi, Speke and Grant! Abyssinia, Riippell. 
Lower Guinea. Golungo Alto, Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Manganya hills, Dr. Meller! 
C. didymobotrya nearly resembles ©. venusta, F. Muell. of North Australia. 
Schweinfurth and Ascherson, in Flor. Aithiop. 255, cite Cassia glauca, Lam., an 
Indian tree, as occurring in Sennaar. The leaflets are in 4-6 pairs, glaucous and 
puberulous or glabrate underneath, oval or elliptical obtuse or scarcely acute; glands 
interpetiolular; stipules linear, falcate. Flowers in corymbose racemes from the upper 
axils. Legume flat, broadly linear, 4-54 in. long, 6-8 lines broad. 
I have not seen African specimens. 
16. CG. obovata, Collad. Hist. Cass. 92, t. 15 A. Herbaceous, erect 
or ascending from a woody perennial stock 1—2 or even 3—4 ft. high, 
glaucous, wholly glabrous or the young extremities finely pruinose- 
puberulous. Stem pale green, terete or obtusely angular. Leaves 
2—5 in. long; leaflets in 3-7 pairs, obovate to oblanceolate-oblong or 
obovate-elliptical, apex broadly rounded mucronulate, subcoriaceous, 
subsessile, 4-14 in. long; interpetiolular glands rudimentary or 0. 
Stipules obliquely lanceolate acuminate, spreading or decurved, persis- 
tent, {-1 in. long. Racemes erect, axillary, at length usually over- 
topping the leaves, rather laxly many-flowered. Pedicels } in. Bracts 
rotundate-ovate apiculate 4 in. long; caducous. Sepals rather unequal, 
very obtuse. Two of the anterior anthers considerably larger. Ovary 
appressed-tomentose. Legume flat oblong-reniform, broadly rounded 
at the extremity and obliquely tipped with the remains of the slender 
style ; 11-21 in. long, 7—10 lines broad; valves thinly coriaceous, gla- 
brous or pulverulent, transversely marked with scarcely prominent 
anastomosing veins, and longitudinally over the seeds with a single 
series of rounded crest-like plaits. Seeds compressed obovate retuse ; 
cotyledons plane, from end to end of the larger diameter of the seed, 
—For synonymy see Batka, Monog. Senna, 46, where is also a good 
figure (t. iii.) 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Niger Expedition, Barter! 
Worth Central. Kouka, Z. Vogel! 
