6t FAMILY HERBAL. 



accounfs, thougit we are yery well acquainted 

 with the bark of its young branches. What we 

 have been told of it is, that the branches are nu- 

 merous, and spread irregularly ; that the leaver 

 are oblong, green on the upper side, and whi- 

 tish underneath ; and the flowers small, fragrant, 

 and placed in a sort of clusters. 



The bark which our druggists sell, is greyish on 

 the outside, brown within, and is of an agree- 

 able smell : when burnt the}' call it Eleutherian 

 bark, and bastard Jesuit's bark : it is cordial and 

 astringent. It is very properly giveo in fevers 

 attended with purging. And many have a cus- 

 tom of smoking it among tobacco, as a remedy 

 for head-achs, and disorders of the nerves : it also 

 does good in pleurisies and peripncumonies : some 

 have recommended it as a sovereign remedy in those 

 cases, but that goes too far. 



The Cjlssi A Fistula Tree. Cassia fistula. 



THIS is a large tree, native of the East, and 

 a very beautiful one when in flower. It grow* 

 twenty or thirty feet high, and is very much 

 branched. The leaves are large, and of a deep 

 green, and each is composed of three or four 

 pairs of smaller, with an odd one at the end. 

 The flowers are of a greenish yellow, but they 

 are very bright, and very numerous, so that they 

 make a fine appearance, when the tree is full of 

 them : the pods follow these, they are two feet 

 long, black, and woody, having within a black, 

 ioft, pulpy matter and the seeds. 



This pulpy matter is the only part used in 

 Biedicine. It is a gentle and excellent purge, the 

 lenitive electiiarv owes its virtues to it. It never 



