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Cassia fistula

noun
1.
Deciduous or semi-evergreen tree having scented sepia to yellow flowers in drooping racemes and pods whose pulp is used medicinally; tropical Asia and Central and South America and Australia.  Synonyms: canafistola, canafistula, drumstick tree, golden shower tree, pudding pipe tree, purging cassia.






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... the "Cassia lignea of the ancients was the larger branches of the cinnamon tree, cut off with their bark and sent together to the druggists; their Cassia fistula, or Syrinx, was the same cinnamon in the bark only;" but Ruaeus says that it also sometimes denoted the lavender, and sometimes ...
— The Symbolism of Freemasonry • Albert G. Mackey



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