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CASSIA SENNA. SENNA, Or, EGYPTIAN CASSIA, 
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STNONTMJ. Senna. Pbarm. Lond. ^ Edinb. Senna Alex 
andrina, five foliis acutis. Baub. Pirn p. 397. Morris Hi/I. t. /V 
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^. 2o\. feci. 2. tab. i\. f. I. ifo/7 i///?. /. 1742. Senna (Alex^ 
andrina) foliolis quadrijugatis Ianceolatis acutis. Millers Ditl. Le. 
Sene. Regnault Bot. p. 388. Ic. opt. 
Senna italica, five foliis obtufis. Baub. I. c. Park. Tbeat. p. Z2£, 
£7d/r Decandria. £W. Monogyiiia. Z//z, G>/z. Plant. 514. 
• J^ G<r//. Cb. Cal. 5-phyllus. Petala 5. Anther a fupremas 
3 fteriles ; infimas. 3 roftratse. Legumen. 
Sp. Ch, C. foliis fejugis fubovatis, petiolis eglandulatis 
THE root is annual: the ftalk is ftrong, fmooth, branched, ered", 
and rifes about two feet in height : the leaves ftand in alternate order, 
and at their bafe are placed narrow pointed ftipulse : each leaf is 
compofed of feveral pairs of oval or elliptical pointed nerved feflile 
pinnae, of a yellowifh green colour: the flowers are yellow, and 
produced fuccefTively in long axillary fpik.es : the calyx confifts of five 
leafits, which are narrow, obtufe, concave, unequal, and deciduous 
the corolla is compofed of five petals, which are roundifh, concave 
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entire, and of unequal fize : the filaments are ten, of which the thre 
undermoft are longer than the others, and furnifhed with large 
beaked curved antheras : the germen Hands upon a fhort pedicle, and 
is long, compreffed, and fupplied with a fhort ftyle, which is turned 
inwards, and terminated by an obtufe ftigma : the feeds are brown, 
roundifh, flat, and produced in a fhort compreffed curved pod, divided 
by tranfverfe partitions. The flowers appear in July and Auguft. 
Senna is a native of Egypt : it alfo grows in fome parts of Arabia, 
efpecially about Mocha ; but as Alexandria has ever been the great 
mart from which it has been exported into Europe, it has long 
been 
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