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and Prososperma,' whose narrow cylindrical pod contains elongated 
compressed. seeds. 
Cassia (Senna) obovata. 
Fria. 97. 
Habit (4). 
The fruits of Cathartocarpus’ (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.’ 
In the section Aédsus,' all the ten stamens are fertile, and nearly 
1 Voa., loc. cit..—Jacg., Icon., iii, t. 459. 
2 Pers., Syn., i. 459,—Bactyrilobium W., 
Enum. Hort. Berol., 439. — Fistula DC., 
loc, cit., 489, sect. i—Gartn., Fruct., ii: 313, 
t. 147,—Wieut, Illustr., t. 83, Icon., t. 252, 
269.—CoLiaD., op. cit, t. 1—Hansury, in 
Trans. Linn. Soc., xxiv. t. 26. 
* The anterior filaments are dilated about 
half way up, into a sort of globular appendage. 
C. Brewstert F. MuELL., javanica L., Spec., 
542 (part.).—DC., Prodr., n. 7.—C. nodosa 
Roxs.—C. Bacillus Gmern., Fruct., ti. 8318.— 
Wiaut, Icon., t. 410, Arereh DEu. (A. RICH., 
Fl, Abyss. Tent., t. 47), ete. 
4 Voa., loc. cit.—Jacq., Eclog., i. t. 538.— 
Baseophyllum DC., op. cit., 500, sect. vi.— 
CoxLuaD., op. cit., 115, t. 14. 
