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BLADDER SENNA 



Family: LEGUMINOSAE 



Reproductive system: DlADELPHY, DECANDRY 



THE ORIENTAL BLADDER SENNA, Colutea orientalis, Linn, is an extremely pretty 

 oriental shrub acclimatized in almost all of our gardens. Its stems, about two meters high, 

 have numerous branches. The leaves are pinnate, with seven or nine leaflets only slightly 

 (or sometimes not at all) indented at their tips. The corolla is yellowish red or blood-red; 

 the standard has two yellow spots at the base. The fruit is an inflated pod that opens by 

 itself at the tip. 



FLOWERS: June and July. 



RANGE: the Levant. It's also claimed to be in the area around Strasbourg. 



THE SHRUBBY BLADDER SENNA, Coluteafrutescens, Linn, is a very small bush 

 remarkable for the beautiful color of its flowers. It's about a meter and a half high. Its 

 stem and branches are covered with whitish hair. The compound leaves consist of fifteen 

 to nineteen small deep green oval leaflets. The corollas are a handsome scarlet red, 

 arranged in axillary clusters, frequently pendent. 



FLOWERS: July. 



RANGE: Africa. 



USES. Both of these bushes have contributed to the ornamentation of our gardens 

 and collections for a long lime. 



