Bot. [L., ad. Gr. κολουτέα (also κολοιτέα), name of a pod-bearing tree in Theophrastus.] A genus of shrubs with papilionaceous flowers and bladder-like pods, hence called Bladder-senna; a yellow-flowered species (C. arborescens) is grown in England.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 227. Least patient of cold, Colutea Odorata.
1712. trans. Pomet’s Hist. Drugs, I. 86/2. The Bastard Sena, is the Colutea, or Wild Sena.
1736–7. Mrs. Delany, Autobiog. & Corr. (1861), I. 586. [She] dies with impatience for the colutea-seed you promised her.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxv. 360. A genus of well known shrubs called Colutea.
