SUB-ORDER CASALPINIEA. 
I. CADIA SERIES. 
Cadia’ (figs. 38-44) has regular hermaphrodite flowers, usually 
pentamerous.” The receptacle forms a pretty deep cup (fig. 41), 
lined by a glandular disk,’ and bearing the perianth and androceum 
Cadia varia. 
Fie. 38. 
Habit (3). 
on its edges, with the gyneceum 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.’ 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 
3 The edges of the disk form as many little 
1Forsz., Fl. gypt.-Arab. 90.—DC., 
festoons as there are stamens. 
Prodr., ii. 486.—Spacu, Swit. é Buffon, i.108.— 
Eyp.., Gen., nu. 6776.—B. H., Gen., 560, n. 
290.—Panciatica Picctv., Hort. Panciat., 9, 
icon.— Spaendoncea Dursr., Dec, Phil. vii. 
259,—LamMx., Dict. vii. 301; Ill, t. 948. 
2 Forsxuan has seen 6~7-merous flowers in 
C. varia, 
* Or very slightly reduplicate. 
5 The vexillary petal, described as external in 
the bud by Bentoam & Hooxer (loc. cét.), may 
be altogether internal, as we have several times 
made out, and is of necessity overlapping one 
side and overlapped the other when the corolla 
is contorted. 
