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ynay Have room to grow, being careful to fnadethem 

 fiom the fun till they have talien new root, after which 

 they mufl: have air and water in proportion to the 

 warnuh of the feafon •, and when the plants are grown 

 too tall to remain longer in the frame, they fliould be 

 removed to an airy glafs-cafe, wlierc they may iland 

 to flower and ripen their feeds. 

 TAMARIND US. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 660. tab. 

 445. Lin. Gen. Plant. 46. TbeTamarind-lrce. 



I'he Characters are, 

 "The empalcment of the fiozver is compofed of four cval 

 pla'm leaves -u;hich are equal \ the flo-zver has five petals 

 -j.'hicb are almofl like thofe of the butterfly kind^, one of 

 thera ftanding erect ^ two are placed like ivingson each fide ^ 

 ctJid two refieil downward-^ it has three awlfldaped fla- 

 mina fittiated in the finufes of the empalement^ and are 

 arched toward the upper pet aU terminated by fingle fm- 

 mits^ and an oblcng ovalgermen fupporting an awl-fhaped 

 afc ending fiyle-, crowned by a fingle fiig^na. The germen 

 afterward becomes a long^ fwelling^ ccmpreffed pod^ having 

 a double cover ^ and one cell containing three^fcury cr five 

 angular comprejfed feeds ^ furrounded with pulp. 

 'his genus of plants iS ranged in the firft feftion of 

 ,innaeus's third clafs, which includes thole plants 

 whofe flowers have three (tamina and one ftyle. 

 We know but one Species of this genus, viz. 

 Tamarindus (Indica.) Hort. Cliff. 18. The Tamarind- 

 tree. Siliqua Arabica, qus; Taiuarindus. C. B. P. 

 403. The Arabian Pod or Tamarind, 

 This tree grows naturally in both Indies, and alfo in 

 Egypt ; but it has been fuppofed by fome eminent bo- 

 tanifts, that the Tamarind which grew in the Eaft- 

 Indies, was different from that of the Weft, becaufe 

 the pods of the firft are almoft double the length of 

 thofe of the latter. The pods which have been brought 

 me from the Eaft-Indies, have' generally been fo long 

 as to contain five, fix, and fometimes feven feeds, 

 whereas thofe of the Weft-Indies have very rarely 

 more than three or four; but the plants which I have 

 raifed from the feeds of both forts, are fo like as not 

 to be diftinguifhed ; therefore I fuppofe it may be 

 owing to the foil, or culture, that one is fo much 

 larger than the other. 



This grows to a very large fize in thofe countries 



' where it is a native, but in England it will not thrive 



out of a ftove, efpecially in winter. The ftemTs'very 



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many branches at the top, which fpread wide every 

 way, and are clofely garnifhed with winged leaves, 

 compofed of fixteen or eighteen pair of lobes, with- 

 out a fingle one at the end. The lobes are about 

 . half an inch long, and a fixth part of an inch broad, 

 of a bright green, a little hairy, and fit clofe to the 

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branches, five, fix, or more together upon the fame 

 foot-ftalk, in loofe bunches ; thefe are compofed of 

 jfivereddilh petals, one of which is reflexcd upward 

 ; ilike the ftandard in fome of the butterfly flowers, two 

 ' ottiers ftand on each fide like the wings, and the other 

 two are turned downwards ; thefe, in thd countries 

 where the plants grow naturally, are fuccecded by 

 ;. thick comprefled pods, two, three, four, or five inches 

 •>4ong, having a double flciii or cpyer, and fwell in 

 it. every place where the feeds arc: lodged, full of an acid 

 rjftringy pulp, which furrounds fmooth, compreflTed, 



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. The_Tamarinds which are brought from the Eaft- 

 cl Indies are darker and drier, but contain more pulp, 

 :^ being preferved without fugar, and are fitter to be 

 vjput into medicines than thofe from the Weft-Indies, 

 -^ which are much redder, have lefs pulp, and are pre- 



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ferving to water and fiKide them until tlity Ikivc t.iluTi' 

 root ; and as tlie earth in the pots ap{)car.s dw, 

 mull be watered from time to time, and Ihonkl have 

 air given to thcni in proportion to tlie warmth of ti:e 

 feafon, and the bed m which they arc placed ; v/hc:i 

 the pots in which they arc planted arc lilled w:ihr!i<-r 

 roots, the plants ftiould be fniftedinto pots of a hir^cr 

 fize, which muft be tilled up with rich light cirih, 

 and again plunged into rlic hot-bed, giving ihern a;,, 

 as before, according to the warmth of the k'afon • b..: 

 in very hot weather the glaffes fi-iorild be fl^adcd witii 

 mats in the heat of the day, otherwife the fun will l^c 

 too violent for them through the glafies •, nor v;ili the 

 plants thrive, if they are cxpofed to th.c open air, 

 even in the warmeft feafon ^ lb that they mull: be ccn- 

 ftantly kept in the bark-ftove both lunnner and win- 

 ter, treating them as hath been directed for the Cof- 

 fee-tree, with whofe culture they will thrive exceedir. 

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faft J for I have had them upwards of three feet hio-h' 

 in one fummer from feed, and have had two plants 

 which produced flowers the fame feafon they wero 

 fown ; but this was accidental, for none of the older 

 plants have produced any flowers, although I have fe- 

 veral plants of different ages, fome of which are 

 above twenty years old, and about fifteen feet highy 

 with large fpreading heads. 



AMARIX. Lin. Gen. Plant. 75. Tamarifcus; 

 Tourn. Inft. R, H. 661. The Tamarifl^. 

 The Characters are. 



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of the flower is chtufe^ ercB^ and perm^ 

 'nto five parts ; the fiower has five ov 

 )hich fpread open^ and five hair-like fl 



feathery^ twiftedftig. 



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 fmall downy feeds. ' . '^ " ' V ■ 



This genus of plants is ranged in the third feftion of 

 Linnasus's fifth clafs, which includes thofe plants 

 whofe flowers have, five ftamina, and'tKrcc ftyles or 



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 i. Tamarix {Gallica) floribus pentandris. Hort. ClifF. 

 ' '' III. Tamarijk with flowers having five ftamina. Ta- 



marifcus Narbonenfis. Lob. Icon. 218. French Ta- 



marifk. 



2. Tamarix (Gfn;?^;z;V5) floribus decandris. Hort. Cliffy. 



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\They are eafily propagated by fowing their feeds on 

 .. a hot-bed in the fpring; and when the plants arc 



come up, they ftiould be planted each into a feparate 

 . fmall pot filled with light rich earth, and plunged into 

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The firft fort grows naturally in the fouth of France, 

 in Spain and Italy, where it grows to i tree of middling 

 fize, but in England is feldom more than fourteen or 

 fixteen feet high. The bark is rough, and of a dark 

 brown colour ; it fends out many flender branches^ 

 moft of which fpread out flat and hang downward ac 

 their ends ; thefe are covered with a Cheftnut-colonred 

 bark, and garniftied with very narrow finely divided 

 leaves, which are fmooth, of a bright green colour, 

 and have fmall leaves or indentures which lie over 

 each other like fcales of fi(h. The flowers are pro- 

 duced in taper fpikes at the end of the branches, fe- 

 .veral of them growing on the fame'branch. The fpikes 

 are about an inch long, and as thick as a large earth- 

 worm. The flowers are fet very clofe all round the 

 fpike-, they are very fmall, and have five^ concave 

 petals of a pale flefh colour, with five flender ftamina 

 terminated by roundifti red fummits. The flowers ap- 

 pear in July,' and are fucceeded by oblong, acute- 

 pointed, three-cornered capfules, filled with fmall 

 downy feeds, which feldom ripen in England. 

 The wood, bark, and leaves of this tree are ufed in 

 medicine, and are accounted fpecific for all diior- 

 ders of the fpleen, as being believed to leflTen it much. 

 The bark is fometimes ufed for rickets in children. 



Thefecond fort grows naturally in Germany, in moill 



land ; this is rather a ftirubthan tree, having feveral 



ligneous .ftalks arifing from the fame root, v;hich 



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