448 ORD. XXV. .Lomentacee. CASSIA FISTULA. 
apothecaries to know that the pulp of prunes might be employed 
in the place of the more expensive and precarious Cassia.’’* 
By the use of Cassia, it has been remarked, that the urine 
becomes of a green or blackish colour;" but Bergius relates, that 
a young man took an ounce three successive mornings without 
producing the least change in the colour of his urine.’ 
The officinal preparation of this drug is the electuarium e cassia: 
it is also an ingredient in the electuarium e senna, or e. lenitivum. 
& M. M, vol. it. p. 506. 
+ By Sennertus, Losecke, Boerhaave, Lewis, &c. 
'M. M. p. 341, Gmelin also denies this effect of Cassia. Diss. de Rhab. p. 30. 
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TAMARINDUS INDICA. TAMARIND TREE. 
SYNONYMA. Tamarindus. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb. Gerard 
Emac. p. 1607. Park. Theat. p. 217. Pluck. tab. 64. fig. 4- 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. p. 90. tab. 25. Siliqua arabica, que Tama- 
rindus. Bauh. Pin. p. 403. Balam Pulli. Hort. Malab. tom. i. 
p. 39, tab. 23. Tamarindus indica. Jacquin, Pl. Americ. p. 10. 
tab. 10. ed. 2. pict. p.11.t. 18. Conf. Sloane’s Jamaica, vol. ii. 
p. 45. Browne's Jamaica, p. 125.  Hughes’s Barbad. p. 189. 
Long’s Jamaic 1, vol. iti. p. 729. Swartz. Obs. Botan. p. 25. 
Cdy Me. Flor. Cochin. p. 403. 
Class Monadelphia. Ord. Triandria. Schreb. Gen. Plant. p. 450. 
iss, Gen. Ch. Cal. 4-partitus. Petala 3. Nectarium setis 2 
brevibus sub filamentis. Legumen pulposum. 
THIS tree rises toa great height, sending off numerous large 
branches, which spread to a considerable extent, and have a 
beautiful appearance: the trunk is erect, thick, and covered with 
rough bark of a greyish or ash-colour: the leaves are pinnated, 
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