objects in nature. ‘This most magnificent tree,” says Dr. 
Roxburgh, “is one of the largest in India, with a most exten- 
sively spreading and shady head, or coma; the bark dark- 
coloured and scabrous, the wood hard, very durable, and most 
beautifully veined.” Dr. M‘Fadyen, too, observes that the tree 
is “ very ornamental, and affords a delightful shade.” The inhabi- 
tants of the East, however, have a notion that it is dangerous 
to sleep under, and it has been remarked, as of our Beech in 
Europe, that the ground beneath is always bare, and that no 
plant seems to thrive under its branches. "Its flowers have little 
beauty to boast; they are insignificant and exhibit no bright. 
colours. Our plant has not borne fruit, but flowers in the 
summer season, and generally, but not always, casts its leaves 
during our winter. 
The extensive use of the pulpy fruits of the Zamarind is 
well known, as are its valuable medicinal properties. In the 
East they are preserved without sugar, being merely dried in 
the sun, when they are exported from one part of the Archipelago 
to another, and cured in salt when sent to Europe. “In the 
, West Indies,” says the lamented Dr. M‘Fadyen, “the pulp is 
usually packed in small kegs between layers of sugar, and hot 
syrup is poured on the whole. In order to enable them to 
keep without fermentation for a length of time, the first syrup, 
which is very acid, is poured off, and a second is added. A 
very excellent preserve is imported from Curacoa, made from 
the unripe pods, preserved in sugar, with the addition of 
spices.” The seeds are eaten in India in times of scarcity by 
the poorer classes, the very astringent integument being first 
removed, and, then roasted or fried, are said to resemble the 
common field-bean in taste. 
Descr. A ¢ree attaining, when fully grown, a very large size, 
with a vast, dense and bushy head of branches, thickly clothed 
with light and feathery foliage. eaves paripinnated, with 
twelve to sixteen pairs of small, opposite, oblong, obtuse, sessile 
leaflets. Stipules small, caducous. © Racemes terminal on the 
small branches in our plant, said to be sometimes lateral, few-, 
six- to eight-flowered. Calyx of four, ovate, spreading sepals ; 
one, larger, being formed of two combined, all pale greenish- 
yellow, united into a tube at the base. Petals three, nearly 
equal, .pale yellow, streaked with red: one more concave, the 
vewillum: two sete at the lower base at the stamens are con- 
sidered to represent the two carinal petals. Stamens vine, 
monadelphous below; only three elongated and bearing perfect 
anthers. Ovary sickle-shaped, stipitate. Style attenuated : 
stigma obtuse. Fruit an almost linear, thick, indehiscent degume.— 
Pericarp within (that is, between the epicarp and sarcocarp) — 
