Cadia
(this name is an alteration of the Arabic Kadi). SYNS. Panciatica, Spaendoncea. ORD. Leguminosae. A small genus (three species are known) of stove, evergreen shrubs, natives of Eastern tropical Africa, Southern Arabia, and Madagascar. Flowers whitish, pink, or purple, solitary in the axils or few in a raceme, pendulous; calyx broadly campanulate, with nearly equal lobes; petals nearly all alike, free, erecto-patent, oblong-ovate or sub-orbicular, very shortly clawed; stamens free, subequal; bracts small; bracteoles wanting. Pods linear, acuminate, two-valved. Leaves impari-pinnate; leaflets small, exstipellate; stipules minute. C. Ellisiana, the only species yet introduced, is a small, slender, perfectly glabrous bush, requiring similar culture to Brownea (which see, on p. 215, Vol. I).
C. Ellisiana (Rev. W. Ellis'). fl. rose-red, 1 1/2in. long; petals twice as long as the calyx, obovate-spathulate, convolute, forming a campanulate corolla; racemes short and shortly pedunculate, axillary. December. l. alternate, 4in. to 6in. long; leaflets distant, alternate, spreading, very shortly petiolulate, 3in. to 4in. long, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, obtusely acuminate; petioles very short, swollen at base. Madagascar, 1882. (B.M.6685.)