216 DIADELPHIA TRIANDRIA, Tamarindus. 
Flowering time the hottest part of the year, which is gene- 
rally in May. Fruit ripens during the cold season, or from 
December till February. 
The tree is one of the largest in India, with a most exten- 
sive, large, shady head, or coma, the bark dark-coloured, and 
scabrous, the wood hard, very durable, and most beautifully 
veined, 
Leaves pinnate. Leaflets from ten to fifteen pair, opposite, 
sub-sessile, tapering a little, entire, obtuse, smooth on both 
sides, the inferior pair larger. Petioles channelled, from 
four to six inches long. Stipules small, caducous. Racemes 
terminal, and lateral, Bractes obovate, coloured, one-flow- 
ered, caducous. Calyx four-leaved, cruciate, expanding, 
deciduous. Corol sub-papilionaceous, erect, unilateral, 
the length of the calyx. Banner, or middle petal oblong ; 
margins involute and curled, Wings oval, margins curled, all 
three are beautifully variegated with red and yellow ; keel, 
two short subulate petals, or filaments under the stamens; 
these were considered nectarial, and formed a part of the es- 
sential generic character. #ilaments three, conjoined, insert- 
ed under the germ, ascending. Anthers incumbent. There 
are the rudiments of four more filaments in the fissures and 
outsides of the three fertile ones, Germ pedicelled, linear, 
with the style much incurved. Legume pendulous, nearly 
linear, generally curved, somewhat compressed, replete with 
firm, acid pulp, covered with a hard, scabrous bark, which 
never separates into valves; nor could I ever observe any 
suture indicating such a division ; under the bark ran three 
nervous fibres, one down the upper concave margin, and the 
other two at equal distances from the inferior, or convex edge. 
Seeds from six to twelve, somewhat trapeziform, compressed, 
covered with a smooth, hard, brown bark, and inserted into 
the inferior, or convex side of the pericarp. | 
Extract of a letter from om (now Colonel) Pringle at 
Lucknow. 
* Inclosed I beg leave to send you as specimen of a 
