[846] See Art. Radix Rhei.
[847] From Italian appaltare, to let or farm.
[848] Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay for 1871-72, pt. ii. 21. 98.
[849] Op. cit. (See p. 218).
[850] Dispensatory, ed. 2. 1848. 850.
[851] The reader will find figures of these leaves contrasted with Senna in Pereira’s Elem. of Mat. Med. ii. part ii (1853) 1866.
[852] Schweinfurth found it in 6° N. lat. and 28-29° E. long., in the country of the Dor, where the tree may also be indigenous.
[853] Compositiones Medicamentorum, cap. 4. sec. 36.
[854] De Antidot. i. c. 14.
[855] Noticed likewise among the commodities liable to duty at Alexandria in the 2nd century.—Vincent, Commerce of the Ancients, ii. 712.