346 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA.- Senna. — va 
- 11. 8S. officinalis. Gert. 
Biennial, ramous. Leaflets six-paired, lanceolar, no 
glands. Stipules acute, expanding. Racemes axillary. Te | 
gumes oblong, incurved, thin. 
Cassia Senna. Willd. 2. 520. 
Arab. Suna, or Sena. 
A native of the interior of India, as well of Arabia, Kc. 
12. S. esculenta. R. 
Annual, erect. Leaflets seven or eight pair, lanced- 
late, acute, Racemes terminal, panicled. Legumes lines, 
turgid, many-seeded. , 
Teling. Nutee-kashinda-kura. 
A large, erect, annual, much like cassia sophora, but 
not so very offensive in its smell. It grows about 
hedges, rubbish, &c. with that plant, but is not so com- 
mon. Flowers during the cold season, 
Stem erect, flexuose, a little furrowed, commonly from 
two to three feet high. Branches few, nearly erect, axilla- 
ry, in form like the stem. Leaves alternate, abruptly- 
pinnate, six or seven inches long. Leaflets from six t0 
nine pair, lanceolate, acute, entire, smooth, soft, when 
young a little downy ; two or two and a half inches 
long, and three-fourths of an inch broad, Petioles chan- 
nelled, ending in a brown bristly point. Glands a club- 
bed one near the base of the petiole. Stipules small, ca- 
ducous. Racemes terminal, and from the exterior axils, 
the terminal one a large, compound pannicle, the axil- 
lary ones smaller and simple. Flowers middle-sized, 
yellow. Stamens, the lower one small and sterile, the next 
two large ; the next four middle-sized ; ‘the upper tees 
small and sterile, 
The smell of this plant is bear and disagreeable. — Its, 
leaves are eaten in curries by the natives. — 
