. 614 MR. G. BENTHAM— REVISION OF THE GENUS CASSIA. 
basi sæpe biplicatis medio interdum nodoso-incrassatis, antheris ovatis oblongisve in- 
trorsum rimis 2 ab apice plus minus descendentibus dehiscentibus ; 4-6 intermedia fila- 
mentis multo brevioribus rectis filiformibus vel nonnullis incrassatis, antheris basi breviter 
bilobis ibidemque poris parvis dehiscentibus ; 3-1 summa minora, antheris sæpius cassis. 
Legumen elongatum, pendulum, teres v. crasso-compressiusculum, lignosum v. durum, 
sepissime indehiscens, maturum laminis transversis inter semina septatum, locellis 
sæpius pulpa repletis v. substantia cellulosa sicca farctis. Semina transversa, in locellis 
solitaria, funiculo filiformi affixa, septulis parallele compressa. Cotyledones plan, 
interdum obliquæ v. rarius subflexuosæ. 
< * Bractee minime longe ante anthesin caduce. 
t Foliola paucijuga, sepius ampla (excepta C. Kotschyana) glabriuscula, jugis distantibus. 
l. C. FrsTULA, Linn.! Spec. Pl. 540. Foliola 4-8-juga (vulgo 5-6-juga), petiolo 
tereti. Legumen teres, leve, 1-2-pedale.— Benth. ! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Cesalp. 92. 
Bactyrilobium Fistula, Willd. Enum. Hort. Berol. 440. | 
Cathartocarpus Fistula, Pers. Syn. i. 459. 
Cassia excelsa, H. B. et K. ! Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 339. 
C. Bonplandiana, DC. Prod. ii. 490. 
Cathartocarpus excelsus, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 453. 
Cassia rhombifolia, Roxb.! Fl. Ind. ii. 334. 
Cathartocarpus rhombifolius, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 453. 
Cassia fistuloides, Collad. Hist. Cass. 87, t. 1. 
Cathartocarpus fistuloides, G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. 454. 
Hab. "Tropical Asia, frequently planted, but also truly indigenous; in tropical Africa 
cultivated or escaped from cultivation, and possibly indigenous; in America only where 
planted. 
This species, which, like most of its nearest allies, is described as a most beautiful tree when covered 
with its golden racemes, is much planted in tropical countries for ornament as well as for use. It 
appears, however, to have a very wide range as truly indigenous in the lower hills of East India and of 
the Indian archipelago. From Africa we have no evidence of its being otherwise than in a cultivated 
state; but it is there replaced by the C. Mannii, with more numerous leaflets and shorter racemes, and 
C. Sieberiana, with more developed and more or less persistent braets. From the West Indies, Central 
America, Columbia, and Brazil, specimens have been frequently sent; but, turning to the accounts given 
by resident botanists, they all speak of it as an introduced tree. 1 have also no hesitation in including 
amongst these introduced individuals of C. Fistula the C. fistuloides, Collad., described from Mogino and 
Sessé's rather rude drawing, copied into Colladon's memoir. It is evident that the so-called bipinnate 
leaf is a young branch with two leaves. I have myself seen specimens of C. Fistula with side branches 
bearing only two or three leaves, with the terminal bud so small as to be easily overlooked by a careless 
artist, and thus well representing the drawing in question. 
2. C. Manni, Oliv.! Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 272. Foliola 6-10-juga, petiolo tereti. Ra- 
cemi 3—6-pollicares. 
Hab. Tropical Africa. 
3. O. SPRUCEANA, Benth.! in Mart. Fl. Bras. Cesalp. 92. Foliola 3-5-juga, breviter — 
acuminata, petiolo supra late canaliculato. Sepala interiora 5-6 lin. longa. Legumen 
tereti-compressiusculum, suturis prominulis, 1-2-pedale, - e 4 
