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Foliis plurimis oblongis pinnatis, fore mbello, filiquis maximisy 



Caflia fol 



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-jugatis oblongis obtujis glabris, glandula nulla 



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Caflia nigra, Jeu fiftulofa fecunda, Sec. Slo. Cat. & Hift. 



The Horfe-Caffia. 



This tree grows to a moderate fize, and ftretches frequently to the height o 

 eighteen or twenty feet. The leaves are fmall and oblong, the flowers reddim, and 

 the pods very large, having each three confiderable nerves running the whole length 

 of them, from the foot-ftalk to the top : two of thefe are clofe together, and ran 

 along the back future; but the other is alone, and fixt oppofite to them. It is a 

 purgative, like the foregoing, but not fo agreeable. 



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CASSIA 3. Arbor efcens diffufa^ Jiliquis longis compref/is: 



The Senna Tree. 



This (hrub is very common in the low lands about Kingjlon, and rifes frequently 

 to the height of twelve or fifteen feet : the branches are (lender and fpreadin<r, the 

 leaves pretty fmall, the pods long and comprefTed, and the flowers difpofed in thick 

 bunches at the ends of the branches. a. 



CASSIA 4. Fr utic of a eretfa, foliis ovatis dcutis quinquejugatis, filiqud com- 



preffa, glandula ad imulum. 



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The fhrubbjr Senna, with flat pods. 



CASSIA 5. Fruticdfa erefta, foliis plurimis pinnatis ovato-dcutis, filiquis tur- 



gidis. 



The flirubby Senna, with fwelling pods. 



Thefe fpecies are very like each other, but neither of them grows above four or 

 five feet in height; or exceeds half or three quarters of an inch in diameter. 

 are both common about the Angels. 



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CASSIA 6. Fruticdfa, foliis minoribus obverfi ovatis fexjugatis.f oribus gemi 



natis vel bigeminatis, racemis alaribus: 



The flowering fhrubby Senna* 





CASSIA 7. Fruticofa foliis acuminatis, filiculis fubrotundis monofp 



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The fhrubby Senna, with fmall round pods. 



T found a branch of this fpecies preferved among my fp 



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 member when I gathered it, nor the particulars of its growth ; though, from the 

 fpecimen, it appears to be a flirub with very flender branches, and very different 

 from all the other fpecies. 



CASSIA 8. Viminea, foliis ovato- acuminatis, bijugatis; racemis laxis alaribus t 



filiquis brevioribus. comprejfs. 



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The weakly Senna-fhmb. 





This plant is a native of the coldeft mountains of Liguanea, and rifes frequently 

 to the height of feven or eight feet, among the bufhesj but it is very weakly, and 



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