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duced a succession of flowers dies away. From the 
sap of the flowers toddy and palm-sugar are prepared, 
like from the Cocos and Borassus Palm, occasionally 
as much as 12 gallons of toddy being obtained from 
one treeinaday. The fibre of the leaf-stalks can be 
manufactured into very strong ropes, also into baskets, 
brushes, and brooms. The outer wood of the stem 
serves for turnery. 
Cassia acutifolia, Delile.—Indigenous or now spon- 
taneous in northern and tropical Africa, and South- 
west Asia. Perennial. The merely dried leaflets 
constitute part of the Alexandrian and also Tinnevel- 
ly senna. In Victoria, it willbe only in the warmest 
northern and eastern regions where senna can, per- 
haps, be cultivated to advantage. 
Cassia augustifolia, Wahl. —Northern Africa and 
South-western Asia; indigenous or cultivated. Pe- 
rennial. Yields Mecca senna. 
Cassia Marylandica, L.—An indigenous senna-plant 
of the United States of America. Perennial. 
Cassia obovata, Colladon.—South-west Asia ; widely 
dispersed through Africa as a native or disseminated 
plant. Perennial. Partof the Alexandrian, and also 
Aleppo Senna is derived from this species. Several 
of the Australian desert Cassias, of the group of C. 
artemisioides, may also possess purgative properties, 
The odor of their foliage is almost that of senna. 
Catha edulis, Forskoel.—Arabia and Eastern Africa. 
The leaves of this shrub, under the designation Kafta 
or Cat, are used for a tea of a very stimulating effect, 
to some extent to be compared to that of Erythroxy- 
lon Coca. To us here the plant would be mainly val- 
uable for medicinal purposes, 
