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synonyms. Much credit is due to Herr Batka for the pains which he has taken to 
unravel the entangled synonyms of this and other officinal “ Senna” Cassias. 
19. C, angustifolia, Vahl, Symb. Bot. i.29. Very nearly allied to 
the preceding, the general description of which will apply, differing in 
the narrower oval-lanceolate leaflets which are wholly plabiotis or the 
pubescence all but imperceptible, 1-2 in. long, and usually in 5 to 8 
pairs, as well as in the narrower legumes which are usually 7-8 lines 
in breadth.—Batka, Monog. Senna, t. ii. 0. lanceolata, Wight et Arn. 
Prod. Fl. Pen. Ind. Or. 288. For synonymy, see the same work, 
Mozamb. Distr. Near Tette, “ growing in the streets and on the rubbish-heaps,”’ 
Dr. Kirk! 
Extending eastward to the desert tracts of N. Western and Peninsular India. 
Doubtfully indigenous in Tropical Africa. A fragment is in the Kew Herbarium, from 
Dr. Livingstone, labelled from Central Africa, without precise locality. 
20. C. Absus, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 500. A glandular-pubescent 
or pilose erect or ascending much-branched herb or undershrub, usually 
from 1—2 (—4) ft. in height. Leaves with 2 pairs of leaflets; common 
petiole slender, 14-3 in. long, patent-glandular-pilose throughout, 
interpetiolular glands small or rudimentary; leaflets membranous, 
varying from obliquely ovate or obovate to elliptic-oblong, obtuse, finely 
mucronate or sometimes broadly pointed, thinly See or sub- 
glabrous. Stipules subulate. Flowers rather small, yellow or red, in 
short lax pilose or pubescent terminal or leaf-opposed racemes; bracts 
very small, persistent, ovate, often acuminate, shorter than the pedicels 
of 3-1 in. Sepals subequal, linear-lanceolate, rather obtuse. Petals 
broadly oblanceolate to obovate, narrowed below. Stamens usually 
4, 5 or 6, all perfect; anthers linear-oblong, dehiscing from the mi- 
nutely mucronate apex more or less longitudinally. Legume 2-valved, 
linear, obliquely pointed at each end, 14-2 in. long, }-} in. broad; 
valves slightly convex. Seeds 6-9, compressed oblique ; oct 
ledons plane, extending the length of the larger diameter of the 
seed between layers of moderately thick albumen.—C. viscosa, Schum. 
et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 205; @. Thonningii, DC. Prod. ii. 500. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia, Perrottet! Quorra, T. Vogel! Nupe, Barter! | 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper’ Upper Nile, Petherick! Gallabat, Schwein- 
Furth! Kordofan, Cienkowski. : 
Lower Guinea. Angola, various provinces, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. . Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
Common in Tropical Asia, extending to Australia. 
21. GC. Grantii, Oliv. Diffuse, spreading with wiry branches from 
a thick woody stock; branches terete, striate, thinly pubescent or 
sparsely patent-pilose. Leaflets 4-7-jugate ; petiole pubescent, 1-13 
in. long, with 1 or 2 stipitate glands towards the base ;_ broadly sive 
very obtuse mucronate, base very oblique truncate, glabrous or near 
so, 5-6 lines long. Common pedicels in pairs or solitary, supra- 
axillary, 1 in. long or less. Sepals (2—) 4-5 lines long, outer oval- 
oblong apiculate, inner elliptical obtuse. Petals about 4 in. or less. 
