282 XL. LEGUMiNOSiE. [Cassta. 



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on tlie inner face in short slits. Pod long, hard, thick or terete, nsually in- 

 dehiscent. Seeds more or less flattened and lying horizontally in the pod 

 (the flat sides at right angles to the valves), separated by complete partitions. 

 Usually trees. Flowers in axillary pedunculate racemes. 



1. C. Brewsteri, J^. MtielL ith Ann.Bep, 17. A tree, attaining 30 to 

 40 ft<, usually glabrous in all its parts. Leaflets 2 to 4 pairs, from naiTow- 

 ovate or obovate and about f in. long to narrow-oblong or oblong-lanceolate 

 and 2 in. long, obtuse or emarginate, narrowed at the base, the common pe- 

 tiole without o-lands. Eacemes 3 to 6 in. loner. Bracts minute or none. 



Pedicels slender. Sepals about 3 lines long. Petals stipitate, narrow-ovate, 

 rather obtuse, about i lines long. Filaments of the 3 long lower stamens 

 longer than the petals, swollen into a globular appendage about the middle, 

 with ovate anthers, the other stamens shorter than the petals. Pod (only one 

 seen) nearly 1 ft. long, about 8 lines wide, thick but slightly compressed, the 

 edges persistent after the inside has fallen away. Seeds thick, ovoid, the 

 test^ pulpy when soaked; albumen copious. — Calhartocarpis Bi'ew8teri,Y, 

 MuelL Fragm. i. 110, 



Queensland. Hilly pastures and river-hanks on the Burdekin, F, Mueller ; Kock- 

 haniptou, Thozet ; Port Denison and Fitzroy river, Bowman. 



Var. tomeniella. Branches, uuder side of the leaflets and inflorescence miniitely hoary- 

 tomeutose. Leaflets short and broad. Flowers rather small.— Castle Creek, Bowman. 



The seeds of this and some other species of Fistula and Chamafistula appear to be flat- 

 tened at right angles to the embryo, which, as in the other sections of Cassia, lies thus pa- 

 rallel to the valves. In others, such as the African C. goratensis, I have seen the cotyledons 

 so folded as to have no particular relative position, but I have as yet been able to examine 

 but very few perfect seeds in either of these sections. 



Section II. Cham;efistula.— Sepals obtuse. Stamens 10, 3 upper ones 

 small and imperfect, 7 perfect, the 2 or 3 lower ones often larger or on longer 

 filaments than the others ; anthers oblong-linear, the cells opening in terminal 

 pores. Pod terete or turgid, or if compressed thick, woody coriaceous or 

 membranous, indehiscent or 2-valved. Seeds some or all more or less flat- 

 tened and lying horizontally in the pod (at right nngles to the valves), sepa- 

 rated by complete or incomplete partitions or pulp,— Shrubs, or in species not 

 Australian, tall herbs. Flowers in axillary pedunculate racemes or terminal 

 panicles. 



2, C. laevigata, Willd.; Fog. Spt. Cass. 19, An erect glabrous shrub 

 of several feet. Leaflets 3 or 4 or rarely 2 pairs, ovate to lanceolate, usually 

 acuminate, 1^ to 3 in. long, with an oblong or slender gland between those 

 of each pair. Eacemes axillary, pedunculate, short and almost coijmhose, 

 the upper ones forming a short terminal panicle. Sepals unequal, the mer 

 ones 4 or 5 lines long. Petals broad, very obtuse, varying from i to t i^- 

 Perfect anthers 4, almost sessile, 1 on a short and 2 on much longer filaments. 

 Pod 2 to 3 in. long, membranous or slightly coriaceous, cylindrical or ino^^ 

 or less inflated when ripe, 2 to 3 in. long, opening at length in 2 valves. ^ beeu^ 

 crowded and horizontal or the upper ones less crowded and almost vertical. 

 ■ F. Muell. Fragm. iv. 14. 



Queensland. Near lirisbane. Herd, F. Mueller. 



w. S. "Walea. Hastings aud Clarence rivers, Beciler. 



