LEG UMIN082E- C2ESALPINIE2E. 



119 



and Prososperma, 1 whose narrow cylindrical pod contains elongated 

 compressed seeds. 



Cassia (Senna) olovata. 



Fig. 97. 

 Habit (i). 



The fruits of Cathartocarpm- (Purging Cassia, or Pudding-pipe Tree, 

 figs. 103-105), on the contrary, are nearly or quite cylindrical, with 

 very thick woody indehiscent walls, and a cavity separated by tough 

 transverse false dissepiments into low chambers, each enclosing a seed 

 which is flattened from above downwards, and more or less coin- 

 shaped or nummuliform. Here the stamens are all fertile, but the 

 three anterior have better developed anthers and much more elon- 

 gated filaments. s 



In the section Abstis* all the ten stamens are fertile, and nearly 



1 VoG., loc cit., — Jacq., Icon., iii. t. 459. 



2 Peks., Si/n.,_ i. 459. — Bactyrilobiwm W., 

 Fnum. Sort. Berol., 439. — Fistula DC, 

 loc. cit., 489, sect. i. — G.ertn., Fruct., ii. 313, 

 t. 147.— Wight, Illustr., t. 83, Icon., t. 252, 

 2G9. — Collad., op. cit., t. 1. — T!am:i k.y, hi 

 Trans. linn. Soc, xxiv. t. 2G. 



a The anterior filaments are dilated about 

 half way up, into a sort of globular appendage. 



C. Brewsleri F. Mtjell., javanica L., \ 

 542 (part.).— DC, Prodr., n. 1.— C. 

 Roxb. — C. Bacillus ( ii: u'i-n.. Fruct., ii. 313. — 

 Wight, Icon., t. 410, ArereTi Del. (A. Rich., 

 Fl. Abyss. Tent., t. 47), etc. 



4 Von., loc. cit. — Jacq., Eclog., i. t. 

 Baseophyllum DC, op. cit., .".1*11, sect. vi. — 

 Collad., op. cit., 115, t. 1 I. 



