Cassia # (kash'e-ah). 1

A genus of leguminous plants. 2. An old name for several sweet-smelling trees, particularly Cinnamomum c; hence now applied to the coarser varieties of cinnamon bark, especially those derived from China and eastern Asia. 3. The fruit of C. -fistula. C. a cum in at a. C. marylandica. C. a cut i folia. Syn.: C. senna, Senna acuti folia. 1. The senna plant. The leaflets constitute Alexandrian senna. 2. C. an gust i folia. C. an gust i folia. Syn.: Senna officinal is. Indian senna, the Tinnevelly senna plant; an annual species growing in southern Arabia, Scinde, and the Punjab, and cultivated^ some parts of India; closely resembling C. a cut i folia. The leaves of the wild Arabian plant constitute Bombay (Moka, Arabian, or East Indian) senna; those of the cultivated Indian plant, Tinnevelly senna (senna indica [Br. Ph.]). c. buds. The small immature buds of various species of Cinnamomum, C. ethiopica. An African species sometimes identified with C. a cut i folia, said to furnish Tripoli senna. C. fistula. The pudding pipe tree, purging c; indigenous _ to the East Indies and naturalized in various parts of Asia, CAST ative, The Egypt, and in tropical America, pods are sometimes used as a laxative the seeds are ground and used for poul tices, and the bark, which is very astringent, is employed in tanning and in the preparation of a sort of catechu. 3. Of the U. S. Ph., the fruit of C. fistula. ■ c. ligne a. A name formerly applied probably to the twigs and branches of some species of Cinnamiomum; afterward to the bark now known as Chinese cinnamon. C marylandica. American (or wild). The leaflets have a faint odor and nauseous taste, contain a principle resembling cat hart in, and are used like senna leaves, but are somewhat le active. C. obovata, C. obtusa, C. obtusata. Syn.: Senna obtusa. The Aleppo (or Italian) senna plant, indigenous to Egypt, Aby in i a, Tripoli, Senegal, and other parts of Africa, also to Arabia and Syria, and cultivated in Italy, Spain, and the West Indies. It furnishes a variety of Alexandrian senna, being the senna baladi (wild senna) of the Arabs, is now very rarely found in commerce and is regarded as inferior to the senna furnished by C. a cut i folia. ca iae pulp a. C. pulp; the sweetish mucilaginous pulp surrounding the seeds in the pods of C. fistula, forming the active cathartic principle of the latter [Br. Ph.]. China c, Chinese c, cinnamon c. See Chinese cinnamon, oil of c. Chinese oil of cinnamon, a volatile oil distilled from the bark of Chinese cinnamon; darker and somewhat heavier than oil of Ceylon cinnamon and of a le agreeable taste and odor. [U. S. Ph.] mon.] [Lat, casia and ca ia, wild cinnacast. To shed, get rid of, expel (e. g., the hair, the teeth, the contents of the stomach or the uterus); to throw (an animal) into a suitable posture for examination or operation. [Dan., caste.~\