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be applied with great care. — ' Flora Senegambia,' 

 Guillemin et Perrottet, vol. i., p. 257, &c. 



Distribution: Upper Guinea, Nile Land, Lower 

 Guinea, Mozambique District. 



Negro Coffee, L'herbe puante. Fedigose seeds of 

 Tette. Cafe Marron, Wild Coffee of Dominica {Cassia 

 occidentalis, L.). — Annual, or of two or three years' 

 duration. The seeds of this plant, which ^is found in 

 abundance in the environs of negro villages, acquires 

 by torrefaction an agreeable odour analogous with 

 that of coffee. The natives, and especially the 

 European colonists, are said to frequently employ 

 these seeds in infusion as a substitute for coffee, for 

 which purpose it is also used in Dominica ; they are 

 also used in France and the West Indies as a 

 febrifuge, and an infusion of the root is considered by 

 the American Indians as an antidote against various 

 poisons. The whole plant is purgative. — ' Flora 

 Senegambia,' Guillemin et Perrottet, vol. i., p. 261 ; 

 'Kew Report for 1881,' p. 34, &c. 



Distribution : Widely diffused in Tropical Africa, 

 growing in damp and watery places ; Cape de Verd 

 Islands. 



Italian, Tripoli or Senegal Senna {Cassia obovata, 

 Collad.). — Perennial. It is one of the species that 

 afford senna of commerce. It is known under the 

 above names, and also in Jamaica as Port Royal or 



