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the seeds with a single series of crest-like plates. Seeds 6 — 12, wedge- 
shaped, truncate or retuse at the apex, finely reticulate-rugose, dark- 
brown, shining. 
Flowers -March 1888 (Schweinf.), July 1874 (Perry). 
Fruits: — August 1880 (Balfour), Nov. (Schweinf.), July 1879 
(Perry). • 
Locality : — East of Steamer Point, near the telegraph-office 
(Schweinf.); plain of Maala (Defl.) ; great valley between Steamer Point 
and town (Marchesetti) ; slope of Shum Shum Range (Ellenbeck) ; 
without locality (Hook.., Birdw., Perry, Balfour). 
Distribution: — W. India, Sind, Arabia, Palestine, Egypt, Nubia, 
Eritrea, Abyssinia, Kordofan-Sennaar, highlands of Somaliland, Sene- 
gambia, Angola, Hereroland. 
Note: — We have included ForskaPs synonym (G. aschreJc) on the 
authority of Schweinfurth. ForskaPs short diagnosis seems to agree 
completely with the characteristics of Cassia obovata . Also the arabic 
name and the locality point to the species growing in Southern Arabia. 
Ehrenberg, too, found the species in the vicinity of Mor. 
Uses : — This plant is occasionally to be seen in Indian bazars as an 
inferior quality of Senna. (Greenish, in Pharmaceut. Journal, 4th ser., 
vol. 9, p. 470—471.) 
2, Cassia holosericea Fresen. in Flora (1839) I, 54 ; Franch. Sert. 
Somal. in Miss.®R6voil p. 30 ; Oliv. FI. trop. Afr. II, 278. 
Cassia pubescens R. Br. in Salt Abyss. App. p. 64. 
Cassia Schimperi Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 2, I, 307. 
Cassia cana Wenderoth in Linnaea XII, 22. 
j Description : — Shrubby, 1—4 feet high ; entire plant usually clothed 
with a short, dense or subvelvety pubescence. Leaves 2 — 5 inches long; 
stipules \ inch long, linear-lanceolate, very acute with a small auricle at 
the base. Leaflets 5 — 8 pairs, f — 1 by g — h inch, obovate-oblong, 
obtuse or retuse, mucronate, base obliquely rounded or subacute. 
Flowers in narrow axillary racemes shorter than the leaves. Calyx 
| inch long, divided at the base ; segments oblong, obtuse, membranous. 
Petals J inch long, obovate-oblong, cuneate, shortly clawed, yellow. 
Stamens 10, the 3 upper reduced to small staminodes. Ovary densely 
pubescent. 
Pods 1—1 1 by J— f inch, flat, papery, recurved, rounded at both 
ends, transversely veined. Seeds 4—10, obovoid-cuneate, £ by J inch, 
retuse at the apex, reticulate-rugose, flattened, yellow. 
Flowers: — January 1863 (Oliver and Cl.), February 1851 (Hooker), 
March 1878 (Perry), April 1861 (Thomson), August 189& (Birdw.), 
