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lateralia incurva, medium filamento crasso, dilatato. Anther@ staminum quatuor breviorum ellipticze, 
bilobze, basi et apice biporosze, dorso medium versus affixe ; anthere staminum trium longiorum late 
ellipticze, birimosz, introrsum dehiscentes, basi affixee; anthere staminum trium brevissimorum 
birimosz, tribus supradescriptis haud dissimiles sed valde minores. Ovarium longe stipitatum, 
lineare, adscendens, falciforme, margine superiore basin versus parce pilosum, aliter glabrum. Stigma 
oblique truncatum. Legumen cylindricum, rectum, 1-1}-pedale, lignosum, durum, leve, corticatum, 
breviter apiculatum vel obtusum, septis transversis numerosis ut in Cassie Fistule L. legumine (cui 
simillimum) instructum. Semina ovato-rotundata, compressa, nitida, durissima, 3 lineas longa, 
coloris cinnamomei, in succo saccharino adstringente immersa. 
Cassia moschata, as remarked by the authors of the * Nova Genera et Species,’ as well as 
by Mr. Sutton Hayes, is nearly allied to C. brasiliana, Lam., but it is easily distinguished 
from that plant by its comparatively glabrous yellow flowers and its totally different 
legumes. These legumes are stated by both Mr. Hayes and M. Triana to be used in 
medicine in New Granada instead of those of 0. Fistula, L.; so that their occasional 
appearance in European commerce is not surprising. They differ from the latter by 
their smaller size, less regularly straight and cylindrical form, and especially by their 
paler and less saccharine pulp, which, when fresh, is stated to have a slightly musky 
odour. These characters are of but little value botanically ; the leaves, however, of 
C. moschata, its shorter racemes and nearly glabrous ovary, amply suffice to distinguish 
it from C. Fistula, L. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATE. 
PLATE XXVI. 
A, B, C. Flowers, legume, and leafy branch of Cassia moschata, H., B., K. (natural size). 
Fig. 1. Flower, the petals and sepals having been removed. 
Fig. 2. The stipitate ovary. 
Fig. 3. Anther of one of the three long stamens. 
Fig.4. ,, of one of the four medium-sized stamens. 
Fig. 5. One of the two lateral short stamens. 
Fig. 6. Central short stamen with inflated filament (all magnified). 
