A493 ORD. XXV. Lomentacee. 
CASSIA SENNA. SENNA, Or, EGYPTIAN CASSIA, 
a OTR eee a a 
SYNONYMA._ Senna. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Senna 
Alexandrina, sive foliis acutis. Bauh. Pin. p. 397. Morris 
Hist. t. ti. p. 201. sect. 2. tab. 24. f. 1. Raitt Hist. p. 1742. 
Senna (Alexandrina) foliolis quadrijugatis lanceolatis acutis. 
Miller’s Dict. Le Sené. Regnault Bot. p. 388. Ic. opt. 
Senna italica, sive foliis obtusis. Bawh.l.c. Park. Theat. p. 225, 
Class Decandria.. Ord. Monogynia. Lin. Gen. Plant. 514. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus.  Petala 5.  Authere supremae 
3 steriles; infimz. 3 rostrate. Legwmen. 
Sp. Ch. C. foliis sejugis subovatis, petiolis eglandulatis. 
‘THE root is annual: the stalk is strong, smooth, branched, erect, 
and rises about two feet in height: the leaves stand in alternate 
order, and at their base are placed narrow pointed stipule: each 
leaf is composed of several pairs of oval or elliptical pointed 
nerved sessile pinnz, of a yellowish green colour: the flowers are 
yellow, and produced successively in long axillary spikes: the 
calyx consists of five leafits, which are narrow, obtuse, concave, 
unequal, and deciduous: the corolla is composed of five petals, 
which are roundish, concave, entire, and of unequal size: the 
filaments are ten, of which the three undermost are longer than 
the others, and furnished with large beaked curved anther: the 
germen stands upon a short pedicle, and is long, compressed, and. 
supplied with a short style, which is turned inwards, and terminated 
by an obtuse stigma: the seeds are brown, roundish, flat, and 
produced in a short compressed curved pod, divided by transverse 
partitions, The flowers appear in July and August. 
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