216 DiADELPHTA TRiANDRTA. Tamarvidus. 



Flowering time the hottest part of the year, which is gene- 

 rally in May. Fruit ripens during th&cold season, ortVoui 

 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 (rom 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. Bracies obovate, coloured, one-flow- 

 ered, caducous, Calt/x four-leaved, cruciate, expanding-, 

 deciduous. Carol 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. Filaments 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, oenerally curved, somewhat compressed, replete with 

 firm, acid pulp, covered with a hard, scabrous bark, which 

 never separates mto valves; nor could 1 ever observe any 

 suture indicatino- such a division ; under the bark run 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, luown bark, and inserted into 

 the inferior, or convex side of the pericarp. 



Extract of a letter from Captain (now Colonel) Pringle at 

 Lucknow. 



" Inclosed I beg leave to send you a specimen of the red 



