'HoasE JHORTUS JAMATCENSI^T. S8g 



Slonne, v. 1, p. 17^. Siif'/ids maior.'lnts //irtf.'; tran<n"'rse sul'-afi.f, 

 p.'Htmculis coinmunibus tenuibus longissiniis jlexilibusnue appensis, 

 Browne, p. 295. 



- Legumes in racemes, vvitli-furrows traasverseiy lanceolate ; the see Is surroun.leJ 

 with a scar. 



This has a round green stem, about the thickness cf a goose quill, which climbs to 

 ti^ie top of the highest trees. The leaves are tliree always together, snh-ovate, quite 

 entire, acuiuiuate, the upper surface smooth, the lower covered with a shining silvrry 

 down. Racemes simple, pendulous, scarcely ever longer than the leaves ; propef 

 peduncles one-flowered, in three's, placed closely at the end of the raceme, and hence 

 liormiiio: a very elegant pendulus wreath of about eighteen flowers, which have no scent, 

 are about two inches long, hare; a ferruginous calyx, and a yellow corolla, with tha 

 . lower edge of the wings red. The legume is from three to six inches long, the surface 

 has sharp small prickles, and contain round beans, about an inch diameter, flat, of a 

 light brown colour, with a black hiliis almost i-ound them, looking like a horse's eye; 

 whence the name. Plunder says they were eaten l)y the Caribs, and the juice of tiie 

 '^^aves used for dying a black colour. They are, however, of a poisonous (quality. 

 'Snuffboxes and buttons are made of these beans. 



SVe Cat,.Claws CowiTcii Horse BjEan. 



HORSE CASSIA. CASSIA. 



Cl. 10, OR. 1. Dccandria monogynia. Nat. or. Lomentacea^ 

 *Gen. CHAR. ^ec Cane^PieceSensitive, p. 151. 



J.WANICA. JAVA. 



.Cassia nigra seu fislnlosa sccitnda sive cassia Jisfula Brasilianfr.^ 

 ' Sloane, v. 3, p. 44. Foliis plurimis oblongis pinimlis, flare rubellOf 

 siliquis maximis, crassioribus trinerviis. Bnjwne, p. S23, 

 Leaflets twelve pairs, oblong, obtuse, smooth; no gland. 

 This tree grows to a moderate size, stretching frequently to the heiglit of eigh'"cen 

 -or twenty feet. Leaves very long, composed of twelve or fourteen pairs of smooth leaf- 

 lets, of a light green, placed near together. The flowers come out in loose spikes at 

 the ends of the branches, of a pale carnation colour, and succeeded by large cylindrical 

 p<ids, having each three considerable nerves, running the whole length of them, from 

 .-the footstalk to the top ; two of these are close together, and run along die back suture, 

 the otlier alone, and fixed opposite to them; it is divided into many cells by transverse 

 partitions, in wnich the seeds are lodged, surnnmded wiin a black purging pulp. 

 This is called '/(orse cassia, because it is generally given to horses, but seklom used ky 

 the human species, on account of its griping quality. It grows in lowland woods by 

 the sides of rivulets Piso says before the fruit is ripe it is astringent, but after loosen- 

 in"' ; the tops of the leaves applied cure wounds. 



iS't-e Cane-Piece Sensitive CASsiA-STicK-TaEEIliNGWOR.M-BusH Senna Treps 

 Stinking-Weed Wild Indigo. 



HORSE 



