334 The Useful Family Herbal. 
We have the dried Leaves from the Eaf, the- 
Druggifts keep them. They are given in Infufion, 
and are an excellent Purge, butas they are apt to 
gripe in the working, the common Method is to 
throw in a few Cardamom Seeds, or fome other 
warm Medicine into the Water. 
BASTARD SENNA. 
COLUTEA. 
A Common Shrub kept fer Ornament in ouf 
*™ Gardens. The Trunk is not very robuft, 
but it keeps upright, and is covered with a whi 
with rough Bark. The Leaves are compofed each 
of feveral Pairs of fmaller, fet en a common Rib, 
with an odd Leaf at the End; but they are 
rounder, and broader, in Proportion to their 
Jength, than thofe of the true Sena. The Flow- 
ers are yellow: They are but fimall, but they 
hang in long Bunches, and are fucceeded by 
Less, which look like Bladders, of a greenifh 
ur. 
‘The Leaves are ufed, fome give an Infufion of 
them as a Purge, but they are very rough: They 
work both upwards and downwards, and are only 
fit for very robuft Conftitutions. For fuch as can 
a them, they are good againft Rheumatic 
The SENEGA TREE. 
| : SENIC A. : 
Tree frequent in the Ea, and named from 4 
~~ Gum which it affords and which is brought 
in great Quantities into Europe. The Tree is 
_ Targe and fpreading, its Trunk is covered with a 
a 
‘Tough Bark, its Branches with a fmoother of 3 
pale Brown, and they are very full of Thorns. — 
