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ean emerge or 
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Captain Heath (when there was great Si ea his Sh; 7 
fome ‘Tamarinds to be given to €ach Nick to eta meee ae ii ‘d 
contributed much to keep them on their Legs. Dampier. ice, and it 
_ Caftor Darantes’s Figure of this Tree does not refeinble it, being, that of 
pas Bid ofa Palm Tree, neither is the Figure of it in the Hortus Malady ion 
XX. Sehhié (eritnde Ttalica ot oligs obtulis. CR. Kp, » Bay e Og 
Hift. dendrs pt 10. Sene a’ iptcncnak ?. fe Pf 1OTIK P. 148, Ragj, 
 Rokadsleav'd Sch, 
_ This Shrub had a trailing green Stalk, fo weak that ic could rot fiipport 
it felf, of about four foot long, having now and then fmall Branches, befet 
with winged Leaves, three Inches long, the Pinnx being oppofite one to 
another, and even in Number, made up of fix or feven pair, each of which 
was like the Sena Alexandrina only broader at the Point. The Flowers ftand 
on a three Inchés long Spike, each having a fmall Petiolus, and being 
- made up of five large, open, yellow, Petala by their Refie&tion making a 
Cavity and enclofing fome darkifh green Stamina, the Pods and Follicles 
which fucceed are falcated or crooked, of the Shape of a half Moon, an 
Inch and halr long and an’ Inch Broad, mefbranaceous on both Sides, at 
firft green, then blackifh, having eight or nine’ protuberant Eminences, 
under which are fo many Seeds or Peafe of a very’ irregular, triangular or 
Pyramidal Shape. ; . | 
I found it planted in Berry’s Garden at Half-way-Tree in Liguanee. 
It is not annual as in Italy. ve S is, 
It purges with Griping. | | | 
The true Sexa isa Tree, Serapio faying that the Wind throws down its 
Follicles which are gather’d by the Shepherds, this’ round leav’d Séva is 
weak, Cefalp. | we ar 
Sena was known late in Greece, coming from Arabia where twas called 
Albafemer. In Ligurity Thuftia, Rome, and Apulia, ’tis fown in May, and ga- 
ther’d in Harvelt, loving no cold, the long fharp Myrtle léav’d one is the 
beft, the round and fhort leav’d the wort, the beft is Dometic, Lod, it als 
ways gripes Without'a Correftive. fd, 
Oné Dram alone, halfan Ounce with Corre€tives purges. Dorf. 
It is hot in the 2d and-dry in the rft Degree, it purges totgh Humours 
and Melancholly. Low | 
It is not fo ftrong as’that of the E, Indies, Ca/alp. 
The Folliculi if gather’d green and dryed purges better than the Leaves. 
Math. Gee * 
Some diftil a pursing Water, from it and other Tnigtedients, Park. 
Pommet is miftaken when he fays this Sena is thé Leaves of C olated, 
XXL Sead minor herbacea, plerumg; hexaphllya, folio obtufo. Cat. “fan, p. 148. 
Raij Dendr.Vol. 3. P. iit. Tab. 180. Fig. §. Orobids Brafilienfis Tarcroqut 
dittus Matapafta Lufitanis Marcgr. Raij. Hift. p. 91 2- Caffia Americana fatidé 
folijs fubrotundis acuminatis. Tournef. Inft. p. 619. AaGalega Indica besepiyls, 
feu Senna herbacea hexaphylla minor Ceylanica, Aman. Hort. Bof. p. 15 f alega 
Indica hexaphylia. Raij. Haff. gi ? An Senna Spuria Matabarica. Ray. Hift.p. 
1743 7C hdvaacafie affinis Tetraplylla filiquis tendiffimis femine tereti, apicibus 
obtupis quafi abfciffis [ua longitadine fecanddm loagitudinem filiqde pofito Breyn. 
pr. 2. p.2g Pe | 
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