CLASS XVI. 
DIADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. , 
TAMARINDUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1100. 
Calyx four-leaved. Corol three-petalled, unilateral. Le — 
gume pulpy. : 
T. indica. Willd. iii, 577. 
Balam-pulli, Rheed. Mal. i. t. 23. 
Amlica, Asiat. Res. iv. 247. 
Tintri, or Tintiree, are also Sanscrit names. 
Beng. Tintiree, or Tintil, or Tentool. 
Hind, Umi, Amli,. 
Chinta-chittoo of the Telingas. 
This most magnificent tree is so common and so generally 
known, as to require little or no description. I however sus- 
pect our East India tree differs, probably specifically, from 
that of the West Indies; besides I have in view, the reduc- : 
ing of it to its proper sieve: in the Seaual System, which I con- 
ceive to be in the Class Diadelphia, and not Monadelphia, 
as arranged by Schreber, Willdenow, &c. It posseses the 
natural classic character of the former in an eminent degree, 
and scarcely any part of the latter ; should the single circum- 
stance of the filaments being cna in one body towards the 
_ bottom, constitute the essential mark, it would undoubtedly 
_ be a monadephous plant, but we know that almost one half — 
_ of the genera of this, (the 17th Class) have the stamens con- 
Rected into one body towards their base; yet I do not west: a 
of any one who has attempted to remove mich or even to < con- : 
_ Sider them ia ne ete 
