A52 ORD. XXV. Lomentacee. 
drams “f the pulp are usually sufficient to open the body ;. but to _ 
prove moderately cathartic, one or two ounces are required. 
It is an ingredient in electuarium e cassia, and el. e senna, or 
lenitive electuary. 
*¢ Tournefort relates, that an essential salt may be obtained from Tamarinds, 
by dissolving the pulp in water, and setting the filtered solution, with some oil 
upon the surface, in a cellar for several months; that the salt is of a sourish taste, 
and difficultly dissoluble in water; and that a like salt is sometimes found also 
naturally concreted on the branches of the tree. The salt, as Beaumé observes, 
may be obtained more expeditiously, by clarifying the decoction of the Tamarinds 
with whites of eggs, then filtering it, and evaporating it to a proper consistence, 
and setting it to cool: the salt shoots into crystals of a brown colour, and very 
acid taste; but in dissolving and crystallizing them again, or barely washing them 
with water, they lose almost all their acidity, the acid principle of the Tamarinds 
seeming not to be truly crystallizable.” Vide Lewis, M. M. p. 633. 
POLYGALA SENEGA. RATTLESNAKE-ROOT 
MILK WORT. 
ER A RTE RUE nen 
SYNONYMA. Seneka.. Pharm. Lond. & Edinb.  Polygala 
marilandica, caule non ramoso, spica in fastigio singulari gracili 
e flosculis albis composita. Rati App. vel. Hist. tom. tii. p. 670. 
Polygala caule simplici erecto, foliis ovato-lanceolatis alternis 
integerrimis, racemo terminali erecto. Gron. Flor. Virgin. 
i. p. 80. Polygala Senega. Amen Acad. Tom. iii. p. 124. 
Miller’s Dict. Fig. Ed.7. Senegau. Trew. Comm. Litt. Nor. 
1741. Tab. 4. 
Class Diadelphia. Ord. Octandria. Lin. Gen. Plant. 851. 
Ess. Gen. Ch. Cal. 5-phyllus: foliolis aleformibus, coloratis. 
Legumen obcordatum, biloculare. : = 
Sp. Ch. P. floribus imberbibus spicatis, caule erecto herbaceo 
simplicissimo, foliis lato-lanceolatis. 
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