450 
flower of the Tamarind, from which we have no doubt of its liavine 
character of the monadelpl 
Cc 
fs 
h 
have 
now 
placed it, and for which we havs lately had the authority of Sch 
and that of De Loureiro.4* 
which appears upon various authorities,, to b 
This tree, 
f both Indies, 5 America, Egvpt, and Arab 
f 
P 
to the year 1633 
for 
Johnfon's ed 
are told, that the figure 
f the Tamarind " 
ated* in Britain 
of Gerard we 
of a plant feme fix 
months old, arifen of a feed: and fuch by fowing of feeds I have ft 
growing in the garden of my dec eafed friend Mr, T 
inform^ 
Tamarind pi 
u s&y 
M 
« 
if rightly managed, will grow 
very fair,;" adding, " for I have had them upwards of 
high in one fummer, 
iree 
fro 
fee 
d have had two 
P 
d flowers the £ 
feafon they were fo\ 
which* 
b 
this 
was 
aees, fome of which 
accidental, for none of the older pktnts have produced" any fi 
although I have feveral pi 
iixteen 
fpreadir 
g 
top 
d 
of difTe 
years old, and about twelve feet high, with 
T 
-I 
this it may be added,, th 
healthy tree of 
this fpecies, now in the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew r much larg 
d older than 
ofe 
flower for feveral \ 
be 
c. 
d by Mil 
the prefe 
h 
not b 
k 
to 
fu 
inmer 
this fo 
enabl 
us 
P 
(* 
U 
publifh a perfect fpecimen of it reprefented by th 
hich will be found to correct the figure of the -.Tarns 
given by the juftly 
c 
d botanifl Jacqu 
The pulp of the Tamarind, with the feeds, connected together by 
num 
outer fhell, 
h firings 
fib 
es 
ar* 
V/ 
brought to us freed from the 
Tamarinds are prepared for exportation at ] 
preferved in fyrup. According to Long 
j 
foil 
t> 
manner 
The fruit or pods are gathered (in June, July, and Auguft) 
hen full ripe, which is known by their fragility or eafy breaking 
|| V. Genera plant. Clafs Monadelph. O 
* 
nata. Flor. Cochin, p 
Tr 
d 
3 
p. 450 
j 
pio Lmnaeo monitus filamenta habere inferne con- 
In order to make this more evident, we have difplayed the filaments as they appeared 
in our fpecimen. The rudiments of other filaments probably conftituted that part of 
the generic character which has not been noticed in our defcription. 
b Sir Hans Sloane however fays, « thefe trees were ftrangers in the Weft Indies, and 
planted fi 
L. c. 
L. c. />. 1608 
D 
final! 
