¶ The Description.
CAssia purgatrix, or Cassia fistula, groweth vp to be a faire tree, with a tough barke like leather, of the colour of Box, whereupon some haue supposed it to take the Greeke name 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, in Latine, Coriaceus: the armes and branches of this are small and limber, beset with many goodly leaues, like those of the Wall-nut tree: among which come forth small floures of a yellow colour, com∣pact or consisting of six little leaues, like the floures of Chelidonium minus, or Pile-woort: after these be vaded, there succeed goodly blacke round, long cods, whereof some are two foot long, and of a wooddy substance: in these coddes are contained a blacke pulpe, very sweet and soft, of a pleasant taste, and seruing to many vses in Physicke, in which pulpe lieth the seed couched in little cels or partitions: this seed is flat and brownish, not vnlike the seed of Ceratia Siliqua, and in other respects very like vnto it also.