FLORA OF ADEN. 
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Pods 6-8 by f-lj inches, attenuated at both ends, reticulate!^ 
veined, supported by persistent calyx. Seeds 4-8, much compressed,, 
elliptic-oblong, smooth. 
Flowers: — April 1878 (Perry), April 1861 (Thomson), Nov. (Schw- 
einf.), February 1880 (Balfour), March 1875 (Hildebr.) . 
Fruits: — Nov. (Schweinf.), April 1861 (Thomson), March 1875 
(Hildebr.). 
Locality : — Near the fisher-huts at the entrance of the Gold more 
Valley (Defl.) ; gravelly slope of Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck); in the 
flats of the valleys on the South-West side of Aden (Perry) ; without 
locality (Annesley, Birdw., Hildebrandt, Balfour). 
Distribution / -—Nubia, Abyssinia, Eritrea, highlands of Somaliland, 
U sagara-U sambara, Kilimandjaro, Central and Southern Arabia, 
Western India (?) . 
Note : —The Gardeners 1 Chronicle (1861, p. 388) contains a short 
notice by T. Anderson on “ Poinciana Playfairii 33 . He says : “ This 
(P. Playf.) I see you mention as living at Kew. It is a manuscript 
name given by me on collecting the plant at Aden in February 1861, 
after the publication of my “ Florula AdenensisP I have specimens in 
my herbarium in good flower and fruit, and a young plant 5 feet high 
raised from seed recently received from Aden, is also in this garden. 
1 hope soon to describe the species if it proves to be different from P. 
elata , LinnP 
The Index Kewensis refers to this note ; but after this nothing seems 
to have been published on this supposed new species. We found a small 
bit of a specimen of “ Poinciana Playfairii 33 in the Kew Herbarium, but 
judging from that, there can scarcely be a doubt that P. Playfairii is 
identical with Poinciana elata , Linn. 
Poinciana elata u grows from 8 — 15 feet high in the flats of the 
valleys on the South-West side of Aden. One of these valleys is called 
by the Indian Residents of Aden ‘ Gold Mohur Valley 3 from this tree. 
fc It does not appear to grow anywhere in the northern crater/'’ Perry in 
folio Eferb. Kew. 
2 , Cassia L. 
Trees, shrubs or herbs. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; common petiole 
frequently with sessile or stipulate glands ; stipules various. 
Flowers yellow or red, in axillary or terminal racemes or fascicles, or 
subsolitary in axils. Calyx-tube very short, segments 5, imbricate m 
aestivation. Petals 5, subequal or the anterior larger, imbricate. Sta- 
mens 10, all perfect and snbequal or 3 or 5 wanting, or imperfect, 
anthers uniform or those of the lower stamens the larger. Ovary 
