Senna, DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 339 
long and halfaninch broad. Petioles channelled, villous, 
with glands upon them. Stipules semisagittate, both barbs 
and the apex cuspidate and curved. Racemes axillary, so- 
litary, much shorter than the leaves. Bractes tern, lanceo- 
late, the inner two on the base of the pedicel, and much 
smaller. Flowers of a middling size, pink colour, marked 
with greenish nerves and veins, Petals nearly equal, three 
on the upper side and two on the under. Stamina all se- 
mifertile ; the three lower ones much the longest and with 
a double curve below the middle, but no swelling as in 
C. nodosa, and some of the other species, the anthers on 
the three long filaments, are ovate and erect, all the | 
others are incumbent, with pores at the small end.  Lo- 
ment cylindric, from eight to twelve inches long, and as 
thick as a man’s little finger, covered with a dark brown, 
torosé, somewhat ligneous bark; divided by transverse 
partitions, into thirty or forty cells, in which is lodged,a ) 
soft, white, spongy substance which involves the s 
Seeds solitary, obovate, size of a small pea. Integuments 
single, smooth, light brown. Perisperm conform to the 
seed, soft, and tough, divided to the base into two lobes 
by the large cotyledons. Embryo straight, green, Cotyle- 
dons oval-cordate, three-nerved, transversely curved like — 
the letter S. Plumula of two very unequal lobes, the 
largest pinnatifid; the smallest a mere point. — sect 
roundish; ee within the umbilionsy! td 
SENNA. Gert. 
Catys five-leaved. Corol irregular, five-petalled. Fer- 
file anthers beaked, opening by'two pores at top. | 
Bathe two pair, oval. Stipules and bractes iiform, i 
