350 DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Senna. 
Sans. Dadrooghna. 
Hind. and Beng. Dad-murdun. 
Tam. Wandu Rolli. 
Teling. Mitta tamara. 
The English, and I believe all other Europeans on this 
coast, callitalso Mitta tamara. 
Itisa large shrub found in our gardens ; where it is 
indigenous | cannot say. In a cultivated state it flowers 
during the latter part of the wet season, and beginning 
of the cold. The seeds ripen during the latter part of srk 
cold season. 
Stem erect, often as thick asa man’s leg, marked re 
cicatrices of the fallen leaves, and the permanent stipules 
which appear like prickles. Leaves scattered, abruptly 
pinnate, two feet long. Leaflcts opposite, from eight to 
- fourteen pair, the exterior largest, linear-oblong, obtuse, 
or emarginate, with a point, smooth, entire, veined ; 5 
from three to six inches long, and from two to two and@ 
half broad ; the lower pair more distant from the next 
pair than the others above, nearly round and reflexed _ 
back on the stem or branches. Petioles channelled ; the 
channel large and formed by two thin, firm yellow bor- 
ders ; there is a cross-bar between each pair of leaflets, CO- 
vered with small dark-coloured bristies and no other 
gland, each of them terminates in a cordate point. St 
pules ear-shaped, rigid, pointed, lasting. Racemes ter 
minal and from the exterior axils, long, sometimes two- 
forked, nearly erect. Flowers numerous, simple, large, ; 
yellow. Bractes large, one-flowered, oval, concave, yel- 
low, caducous. Calyx coloured like the corol. Legume 
horizontal, from five tu six inches long, enlarged with @ 
broad crenulated wing on each side which runs oe 
whole length. Seeds numerous. — 
The Telinga and Tamul Phystohaiia say it cures” yan! 
poisonous bites and other venereal outbreakings, and al- 
so strengthens the body. | The fresh leaves-are very OF 
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