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' we raised from seeds picked out of Mecca Senna. Dr. Lindley thus de-cribes the plant. “ An annual, but, with care, it may be made to live^ rough the year, and to assume a suffruticose habit. Stem erect, smooth.e aves narrow, equal pinnated ; leaflets four to eight pairs, lanceolate,sessile, slightly mucronulate, smooth above, rather downy beneath,j. h the veins turning inwards, and forming a flexuose intramarginal6 ’ Petioles without glands; stipules softly spinescent, semihastate,jl reading, minute. Racemes axillary and terminal, erect, stalked, ratherp U ger than the leaves; pedicels without bracts. Sepals linear, obtuse.als bright-yellow. Of the stamens the five lowest sterile and small,e two next large, curved, and perfect, the three uppermost minute and^ fd-like. Ovary linear, downy, falcate, with a smooth recurved style.

pendulous oblong, membranous, about an inch and half long,ro ^ ve ' e rghths broad, quite straight, tapering abruptly to the base, andDr E e< ^ at ^ le a P ex > deep-brown, many-seeded.”—Grows in India , butViably only naturalized.—Yields Tinnevelly and Mecca Senna,fy .' C. jEthiop'ica, Guibourt, Hist, des Droy. 3rd ed. ii. 219 ; C. ovata,Diet. Mat. Med. vi. 311; Sene de Nubie ; C. lanceolata, Nectoux,l^'dans la Haute Egypte , t. ii.; C. Senna, Stevenson and Churchill,-\ V j,, • Dot. i. fig. 30.— Leaves of three to five pairs of leaflets; petioleslean a b r ^ a nd at their base, and another between each pair of leaflets ;r oti i 0va l _ l ance °l ate > pubescent. Legumes flat, smooth, not reniform,Ab ' . na ^°d on both sides, containing from three to five seeds.—

C* eighteen inches high. Leaflets from seven to nine lines long, andtho ^ lree ^0 four broad, consequently less elongated and less acute than1 0 B °f the two preceding species. Legumes from eleven to fifteen linesa pale or fawn colour.—Nubia, Fezzan , to the south of Tripoli,tg j P r °bably in Ethiopia . Yields Tripoli Senna. I think I have de-e< l the leaflets in Alexandrian Senna.

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bi„jj • '-anceola'ta, Forskal, FI. JEgypt. Arab . 85 ; Lindley, FI. Med. 259.— Dr.VC’ wh ° met with this species in a collection of Arabian plants made by Dr. S.a ca te er ’ ^ys, “ the leaflets are in four or five pairs, never more ; oblong, and eitherH eil ° r obtuse, not at all ovate or lanceolate, and perfectly free from downiness evenba Se . >p°L Un g; the petioles have constantly a small round brown gland a little above thef a bat e &°ds are erect, oblong, tapering to the base, obtuse, turgid, mucronate, ratherSc atte r ’ ? s P e . c 'ally when young, at which time they are sparingly covered with coarseC. efon la * rs -”—This species is therefore distinct from both C■ acutifolia, Delile, andthat it Lemaire. Forskiil says it grows about Surdud, Mor, and Abuarish ; andg ^ Is the true Mecca Senna.

equal ^aau-AN'ntCA, Linn.— Leaflets eight to nine pairs, ovate-oblong, mucronate,s horte’ 1 .'?L t ' 1 an ovate gland at the base of the petiole. Racemes axillary, many-flowered,(b. £ , "an the leaves. Legumes compressed, linear, hispid, subsequently smoothish"t a)] * rom three to six feet high. Flowers golden-yellow.—United States ; common

carts south of New York.—Yields the American Senna.

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Si p ltKl!CE .—Senna is imported from the Mediterranean (either directly(lr as Wor at second hand from Italy ), and from the East Indies (Ma-U lics ^ Bombay), usually in bales. The duty is 6d. per lb. The quan-011 w hich duty was paid, during the two last years, are as follows :—

1838.

1839.

Trom East Indies .

^rom other places.

. 72,576 lbs.

110,409 lbs.63,766 lbs.

jp Total imported . 142,114 lbs. | 174,175 lbs.

lis ciujv ri0 N.—g cnna (folia senna;) has a peculiar, agreeable, tea-like