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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



to which Batka has given the names of Senna obovata, 1 acutifolia? 

 and angusti folia? It appears certain that the first produces the 

 Sennas called Aleppo, Alexandria, Thebais, Senegal, and Italian 

 Senna ; to the second belong the kinds known in commerce as 

 Tribute {8. de tapalihe), Nubian, and ^Ethiopian ; from the third come 

 Mocca, Mecca, Pike, Tinnevelly and Indian Sennas ; the last kind 

 is known in India as Suna mutka. 



A large number of other Cassias* are also used in medicine in their 

 native countries. Some are purgative like the Senna-producing 

 species above ; we may cite especially C. Sc/timperi Steud., 5 in 

 Abyssinia ; C. Tora L., fi in India ; C. medica Velloz., cathartica 

 Mart., falcata L., laevigata W., 7 magnifica Mart., rugosa Don, and 

 splendida Vog., in Brazil ; C. peruviana Yog., in Peru ; C. Chamce- 

 crista L., s emarginata L., 9 decipiens Vaiil, and fabulosa G. Don, in 

 the Antilles and neighbouring parts of South America and C. mary- 

 landica™ which produces the American Senna, in the United 

 States. 



Many other Cassias serve for divers medical uses in their native 

 countries. C. Sop/tora" from tropical Asia, is used in fevers, eruptions, 



1 Cassia ohovata Collad., op. cit., 92.— DC, 

 Prodr., ii. 492, n. 34.— C. Senna [i h.— C. Si 

 Lamk., Ill.,t. 332, fig. 2, a, b, d; fig. 3, b, f, g.— 

 C. obtwdfolia Del., Fl. Mgypt., 75. — C. ara- 

 ohoides Bukcii. — C. jwrtitrei/alis Baxcr. (ex. 

 Wk.ht&Arn.). — C.Burmanni Wall., in Madr. 

 Jcuni. (1837), 351. — C. ollusa Wall., herb. 

 (C. italica offic. ; Faux Sine; Sene dt la The- 

 ba'ide of Nectoix (Toy., t. 1) ; Lena belledy of 

 the Egyptians and Nubians). 



2 Cassia acutifolia Del., Fl. Mcypt., 219, t. 

 27, fig:. 1. — C. lanceolata Foesk. ; Eg.-Arab., 

 158, ex. DC, Prodr,, n. :;:, P.— Lamk., IU.,\. 

 332, fig. 2, c; fig. 3, a.— C. <■,;,/„ Mtu. & Del., 

 op. cit., vi. 311. — Collad., loc. cit, — N] i I 



loc. cit, — C. athiopica Gttib., '</>. cit., '■'■■'. 

 fig. 337. — C. leniiiva Bisch., loc. cit. (Sene de 

 Nubie of Neotoux, loc. cit., t. 2). 



3 Cassia el mgata L-EM.-Lis.,in Journ.Pharm., 

 vii. 345. — MtE. & Del., op. cit, vi., 311. — • 

 Pereir.,?(jc. cit., 350. — Lixdl., Fl. Med., 258. — 

 C. lanceolata Rotle, III., 201, t. 37. — Wight 

 & Arx., Prodr., i. 2SS.— Wall., in M 

 Jpurn. (1S37), 351. — C. medicinalis Bisch.. loc, 

 cit. — C. Fhrenhergii Bisch. — C. Royl 

 Bisch. — The nomenclature and synonymy of 

 these three specifics need a complete revision. — 

 Probably the epithet lanceolata which has been 

 applied to so many different plants will have to 

 disappear; but it appears to us impossible to 



substitute medicinalis and lenitiva, which Lave 

 not the least claim to priority. 



4 See Bosexth., op. cit., 1038-1011. 



5 C. can" WendbB., in Linnaa, xxii. 22 (nee 

 Nebs, necSOHB.). — C.obtusata Hochbt. — Senna 



ntosa Batea (1849). — S. ovalifoUa Batka 

 (186 



6 Spec, 538 (part).— DC, Prodr., n. 47.— 

 Lindl., Fl. Med., 260. — C.gallinai ia Collad. — 

 C. foelida Salisb., Prod,-., 320. — Gallinaria 

 rotundifolia Ktjmph. — This species is also con- 

 sidered an anthelmintic, and is used in India in 

 the treatment of abdominal disorders in children. 

 It is called < . because it is supposed to 

 curesever.il of the diseases of p >ultry, and es- 

 pecially their broken bi 



I Enum., -111.— DC, Prodr., n. 23. — C. 

 tropic/ Velloz. 



s > 2 (part). — C. pulchella Salisb., 



Prodr., 326. — The type of the section of the 

 same name. 



D Calhartocarpus emarginata PEES. (See 

 0TJBT., Fl. Med. des Ant., ii. 231). 



1,1 ].., Spec, 541.— DC, Prodr., n. 103.— 

 C, st ■ Hill. — Senna marylandica M£b. 



&. Del ,op.cif., vi. 321. — This species is constant ly 

 used in the United Mates as a mild purgative 

 (SeeG0ii:.,C'.. V.,312.— Linhl.,^. J/c-rf~261). 



II L. Spec, 512.— DC, Prodr., n. 31.— Mm:. 

 & Del., op. cit., ii. 130. — Bosentu., op. cit. 



