Tas. 6425. 
CASSIA anata. 
Native of Tropical America. 
Nat. Ord. Lecumryosa.—Tribe Casstea. 
Genus Cassia, Linn.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 57.) 
Cassta(Senna) alata: fruticosa, ramulis robustis pubescentibus, foliis 2-pedalibus 
rachi articulata 2-alata eglandulosa, foliolis 8-16-jugis amplis breviter petio- 
lulatis oppositis lineari-oblongis basi rotundatis v. oblique subcordatis apice 
rotundatis retusisve apiculatis glaberrimis nervosis terminalibus smpe 
rotundatis, stipulis ovato-cordatis subulato-acuminatis persistentibus, 
racemis terminalibus axillarisbusque strictis multifloris simplicibus v. 2-fidis, 
bracteis ovatis concavis, sepalis coloratis, legumine ligulato stricto, valvis 
late longitudinaliter alatis alis crenatis, seminibus gomplanatis trape- 
zoideis faciebus excavatis marginibus discoque medio incrassatis. 
C. alata, Linn. ; Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 523 ; Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, vol. iii. p. 29; 
DO. Prodr., vol. ii. p. 492; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 209; Wight. et 
Arn. Fl. Penins Ind. Or., p. 253 ; Wight. Se. Pl. Ind. Or., t. 453; Hook. J. 
Fl. Brit. Ind., vol. ii. p. 264; Reichb. Ic. et descr. Pl. Cult., t. 84. 
C. bracteata, Linn. fil. Suppl. 232; DC.1. c. 
Senna alata, Roxb. Fl. Ind., vol. ii. p. 349. 
Herpetica, Jacq. Obs. vol ii. p. 24, t. 45, f.2; Rumph. Hort. Ambowm., vol. ii. t. 18; 
A very handsome large shrub, a native of tropical America, 
whence it has been introduced into all other tropical countries, 
in many of which it has established itself as a denizen, notably 
in India, where it is found in gardens and naturalized in 
Bengal. According to Roxburgh it is known to Europeans in 
the Carnatic provinces under the name of Mitta tamara, 
and the same author ascribes also to it names in Sanscrit, 
Hindi, Bengali, and Telinga, which would go far to esta- 
blish its claim to be a native of India, had the fact of its 
introduction from the New World not been well established — 
by evidence of various kinds. Drury, in his “ Useful plants 
of India” (p. 120), calls it the Ring-worm plant, and citing 
Roxburgh and others, says that its leaves mixed with lime- 
juice are used as a remedy for ring-worm, as are its fresh leaves 
bruised and simply rubbed into the diseased parts. The 
