Tas. 6685. 
CADIA ELtisrana. 
Native of Madagascar. 
Nat. Ord. Leguminosx%.—Tribe SopHOREX. 
Genus Cap1a, Forsk.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 560.) 
Capia Ellisiana; glaberrima, ramis ramulisque gracilibus, foliis impari-pinnatis 
foliolis 7-9 elliptico- v. oblongo-lanceolatis breviter petiolulatis obtuse acumi- 
natis nitidis, petiolo basi incrassato, tacemis paucifloris breviter pedunculatis, 
floribus gracile pedicellatis, calyce campanulato breviter 5-lobo, lobis late ovatis 
acutis, petalis spathulato-obovatis calyce duplo longioribus roseis apicibus 
dilatatis subtruncatis, leguminibus oblanceolatis falcatis in stipitemi gracilem 
longe productis stylo elongato-subulato. 
C. Ellisiana, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. vol. xx. p. 135. 
The genus Cadia is remarkable amongst Leguminose for 
its regular flowers, resembling a good deal those of a 
Mallow or Sida. Only three species are known, natives of 
eastern tropical Africa, southern Arabia, and Madagascar. 
C. Ellisiana differs remarkably from its congeners in the 
very few and large leaflets; those of the African species, U. 
varia, are it twenty to forty pairs and very narrow, whilst 
in the other Madagascar species, C. pubescens, they are in 
eight to ten pairs and broadly oblong. From a note in the 
Hookerian Herbarium it appears that the latter species was 
in cultivation in England about half a century ago, in the 
once famous garden of Mr. Barclay, of Bury Hill. 
C. Ellisiana was discovered in Madagascar by the eminent 
missionary, traveller, and author, the Rev: W. Ellis, who 
ve dried specimens to the Herbarium of the Royal 
ardens in 1870. The specimen here figured was kindly 
communicated by Mr. Day, of Tottenham; it flowered as 
a small bushy pot plant in December, 1882. 
Descr. Apparently a small slender perfectly glabrous 
bush, branches woody. Leaves alternate, four to six inches 
long, pinnate with an odd leaflet; petiole very short; 
swollen at the base; rachis slender, slightly flexuous, 
APRIL Ist, 1883. 
