SUB-ORDER CL^SALPINIE^E. 



I. CADIA SEEIES. 



Cadid (figs. 3S-44) has regular hermaphrodite flowers, usually 

 pentamerous. 2 The receptacle forms a pretty deep cup (fig. 41), 

 lined by a glandular disk/ and bearing the perianth and androceum 



Cadia varia. 



Fig. 38. 

 Habit (£). 



on its edges, with the gynseceum in its centre. The calyx consists 

 of five sepals coherent below, and valvate in the bud.' The petals 

 are all equal in size, shortly unguiculate and free, contorted (fig. 40) or 

 variably imbricated in the bud. 5 The stamens are inserted within 

 the petals, outside the crenate rim of the glandular disk. The five 

 superposed to the sepals are at first the longer ; the other five are 



1 Porsk., Fl. Mgypt.-Arab., 90. — DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 486. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, i. 108. — 

 Endl., Gen., n. 6776.— B. H., Gen., 560, n. 

 290. — Panciatica Picciv., Sort. Panciat., 9, 

 icon. — Spaendoncea Desf., Dec. Phil., vii. 

 259. — Lame., Diet. vii. 301 ; III, t. 948. 



' Fokskhai has seen 6-7-mcrous flowers in 

 C. varia. 



3 The edges of the disk form as many little 

 festoons as there are stamens. 



'' Or very slightly reduplicate. 



5 The vcxillary petal, described as external in 

 the bud by I'.kntiiwi & HOOK] B (loc. cit.), maj 

 be altogether internal, as we have several times 

 made out, and is of necessity overlapping "in- 

 side and overlapped the other when the COTOllo 

 is contorted. 



