CLASS XVII. 



DIADELPHIA TRIANDRIA. 



TAMARINDUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1100. 

 Calyx four-leaved. Corol three-petal led, unilateral. Le- 

 gume pulpy. 



T. indica. Willd. iii. 577. 



Balani-pulli. lilteed. Mai. i. t. 2:3. 



Amlica. Asiat. Res. iv. 247. 



Tinlri, or Tintiree, are also Sanscrit names. 



Beng. Tintiree. or Tintil, or Tentool. 



Hind. Unili, Anili. 



Chinta-chittoo of the Telingas. 



This nio.st magnificent tree is so common and so generally 

 known, as to require little or no description. 1 however sus- 

 pect our East India tree difiers, probably specifically, from 

 that of the West Indies ; besides 1 have in view, the reduc- 

 ing of it to its proper place in the Sexual 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 united in one body towards the 

 bottom, constitute the essential murk, it avouM undoubtedly 

 be a monadephous plant, but we know that almost one half 

 of the genera of this, (the 17th Class) have (he stamens con- 

 nected into one body towards their base; yet 1 do not know 

 of any one who has attempted to remove such, or even to con- 

 sider them as monadelphous. 



