310 FAMILY HERBAL. 



Bastard Sena. Colutea 



A common shrub kept for ornament in our 

 gardens. The trunk is not very robust, but it 

 keeps upright, and is covered with a whitish rough 

 bark. The leaves are composed each of several 

 pairs of smaller, set on a common rib, with an 

 odd loaf at the end ; but they are rounder and 

 broader in proportion to their length than those 

 of the true sena. The flowers are yellow : they 

 are but small, but they hang- in long branches, 

 and are succeeded by pods, which look like blad- 

 ders of a greenish colour. 



The leaves are used : some give an infusion of 

 them as a purge, but they are very rough : they 

 work both upwards and downwards, and are only 

 fit for very robust constitutions. For such as can 

 bear them, they are good against rheumatic pains 



Senega Tree. Scnica. 



A tree frequent in the East, and named from 

 a gum which it affords, and which is brought in 

 great quantities into Europe. The tree is large 

 and spreading ; its trunk is covered with a rough 

 bark, its branches with a smoother, of a pale brown, 

 and they are very full of thorns. 



The leaves are large, and they are composed of 

 many smaller, set in pairs, very beautifully and 

 evenly about a common rib, with an odd one at the 

 end of each rib : they are oblong, and of a beauti- 

 ful green. The flowers arc white, and of the 

 shape of a pea blossom ; the fruit is a large and 

 flat pod, jointed or divided into several parts, 

 with seeds in them ; the tree is of (he acacia kind, 

 in many things very like that winch produces the 



