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both to aqueous and fpirituous liquors by infufion, and to water la 
diflillation, affording alfo a considerable quantity of elTential oil, 
amounting, according to Beaume, to fifteen ounces from one hundred 
and fifty pounds of the recent plant. This oil, on being long kept, 
ailu me s ■ a fol i d f o r m . 
The medicinal qualities of this plant agree with thofe of its con- 
gener, Wild Marjoram ; but being much more fragrant it is deemed 
to be more cephalic, and better adapted to thofe complaints known 
by the name of nervous ; and may be therefore employed with the 
fame intentions as lavender. It is directed in the compofition of the 
pulvis fternutatorius by both Pharmacopoeias, with a view to the 
agreeable odour which it diffufes to the afarabacca rather than to its 
errhine power, which is very inconilderable. 
In its recent (late, we are told, that it has been fuccefsfully applied 
to fcirrhous tumours of the breafts. b 
■ 
"^ Cohaufen in Comm. Nor. a. 1742. p. 151. 
TAMARINDUS INDICA. 
TAMARIND TREK 
STNONTMJ. Tamarindus. Pharm. Lond.'tf Edinb. Gerard 
Emac, 
1607. 
Park, Tbeat. p. 2 17. Pluck, tab. 64. Jig. 4 

Rumph. Herb. Anib. p. 90. tab. 23. Siliqua arabica, quae Tama- 
rindus. Bauh. Phi. p. 403. Balam Pulli. Hort. Malab. torn. L 
Tamarindus indica. Jacquin, PI. Amerlc. p. 10. 
Sloanes yamaica^ vol. ii. 
39 
tab 
2.3 
.tab. 1 o. ed. 2. plcl. p. u. t. 13 
Conf. 
45 
Browne's Jamaica^ p. 125. Hughes's Bar bad. p. 189. 
Longs "Jajnaica, vol. iii. p. 729. Swartz* Obf. Bolan. p. 
Cay Me, Flor. Cochin, p. 403. 
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Clafs Monadelphia. 

Triandria. Scbreb. Gen. Plant, p, 450 
* 
Ef. Gen. Ch. Cal. 4-partitus. Petala 3. NeElarmm fetis 2 brevibus 
fub filamentis. 
Legumen pulpofum. 
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