CASSIA FISTULA. 
PURGING CASSIA 
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Pharm. Lond. & Edirib. Caffi 
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Fiftula Alexandrina. Bauh. Fin, p. 40 
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p. 1746. 
Commel. Hort. Amftel. t. L p. 215. tab. no. CaiTia Fiftula. 
Rumfcb. Herb. Arab. t. 2. p. 83. tab. 21. 
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ambar vocata. Alpini 
Hort. Ma lab. T. i. p. yi.:tab 
Caflia Fiftula Chaiarx 
de plant. JEgyptl. p. 3. ic. p. 
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Co una. 
Caflia folutiva. Cnar. Arom. 
VI 
1. r. 29 
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Tlai Xiem. iTor. Cochin 
Decanclria. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 514 
■EJf. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phylJus. 
5 
Anthera fuprema? 3 
fteriles ; infimss 3 roftrata^. 
L 
eg n men. 
. Ch. 
C 
foliis quinquejugis ovatis acuminatis glabris, petiolis 
eglandulatis. 
frequently rifes forty feet in height, producing many 
fpreading branches towards the top, and covered with brownifh bark, 
THIS 
interfered with many 
compofed of- four to fi 
und 
footftalks : the flowers 
and furrows : the 
P 
of 
pi n n 
hich 
are 
nerved, of a pale g 
colour, and ftand 
Ion 
ped 
th 
d 
caly 
ge, yellow, and placed 
upo 
pinnated, 
pointed, 
1 fhortifh 
nfift 
of fl 
fpii 
up 
ive oblong blunt greeniih 
the corolla is divided into Ave petals, which are 
unequal, fpreading, and undulated: the filaments are ten: of thefe 
the three undermoft are very long and curled inwards ; the remaining 
feven exhibit only the large antherse, which are all roftrated, or open 
the end like a bird 
without any apparent ftyl 
the germen is round, curved inwardly 
d terminated by a Ample ftigma : the 
mes 
fruit is a cylindrical pendulous pod, from one to two feet in length 
at firft foft and green, afterwards 
and mining, divided tranfverfely into numerous cells, in each of which 
is contained a hard round comprefled feed, furrounded with a black 
d laftly black 
pulpy matt 
N 
33 
The flowers appear in June and July 
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