350 DECANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Senna. 



Satis. Dadrooghna. 



Hind, and Beng. T)a.d-murdun. 



Tarn. Wandu Rolli. 



Teling. Mitta tamara. 



The English, and I believe all other Europeans on this 

 coast, call it also Mitta tamara. 



It is a large shrub found in our gardens ; where it is 

 indigenous 1 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 the 

 cold season. 



Stem erect, often as thick as a man's leg, marked by the 

 cicatrices of the fallen leaves, and the permanent stipules, 

 which appear like prickles. Leaves scattered, abruptly 

 pinnate, two feet long. Leaflets opposite, from eight to 

 fourteen pair, the exterior largest, linear-oblong, obtuse, 

 or eraarginate, with a point, smooth, entire, veined ; 

 from three to six inches long, and from two to two and a 

 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 bristles and no other 

 gland, each of them terminates in a cordate point. Sti- 

 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 to six inches long, enlarged with a 

 broad crenulated wing on each side which runs the 

 whole length. Seeds numerous. 



The Telinga and Tamul Physicians say it cures all 

 poisonous bites and other venereal outbreakings, and al- 

 so strengthens the body. The fresh leaves are very of- 



