AN ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF HORTICULTURE. 
TAMARIND-TREE. Se Tamarindus indica. 
TAMARINDUS (from “the Arabic, tamr, a ripe 
date, and Hind, India; literally, Indian Date). 
Leguminosæ. A monotypic genus. The species is a 
large, stove, unarmed tree. Its medicinal virtues, as 
! far as the fruits are concerned, are well known. The 
4 bark, wood, leaves, and flowers are all economically 
| valuable. A compost of fibrous loam and sand is most 
suited to the requirements of T. indica. Seeds, which 
are annually imported from the East and West Indies, 
should be sown on a hotbed, and the young plants, 
when about 3in. high, inserted singly in pots. Cuttings 
also root readily in sand, under a glass, in heat. 
T, indica (Indian). Tamarind-tree. fl. few together in cots 
lax racemes at the ends of the branchlets ; pans yellow, s iped 
with red, less than 4in. long, only the three upper ones de- 
veloped ; pedicels articulated at the base of the calyx. June 
and July. fr., pods 3in. to 6in. by lin. or more, three to ten- 
ed, ligulate. J. abruptly pinnate, with twenty to rod 
close, opposite, oblong, obtuse, glabrescent leaflets. A. 
to 60ft. ics (probably indigenous in Africa), 1633. (B. F. S. 
184; B. M. Pl. 92). Syns. T. occidentalis, T. oficinalis (B. M. 
4563). The West Indian pods are generally shorter than those 
grown in the East Indies. 
T, occidentalis (Western). A synonym of T, indica. 
T. officinalis (officinal), A synonym of 7. indica. 
TAMARISCINEZ. A natural order of shrubs, sub- 
shrubs, and rarely trees or durable herbs, found mostly 
in the temperate and warmer regions of the Northern 
hemisphere, and also in South Africa. Flowers often 
white or pink, regular, often hermaphrodite, fleshy, small 
or showy, variously disposed; sepals three, rarely fonr, 
free or connate at base, closely imbricated; petals five, 
rarely four, inserted under the disk, imbricated, free, 
or the base cohering in a tube; disk hypogynous or loosely 
perigynous, ten-glandular, crenate or angular, rarely 
obsolete; stamens five or numerous, inserted on the disk, 
free or variously connate at base; anthers two-celled; 
ovary free. Capsule dehiscent, coriaceous. Leaves alter- 
nate, small, sometimes scale-like, entire and often fleshy 
or impressed-dotted; stipules none. Tamariscinee contain 
in, resin, and a volatile oil, which render them bitter 
and astringent. The order embraces five genera—Fou- 
quiera, Hololachne, Myricaria, Reawmuria, and Tamarie— 
and searcely forty species. 
TAMARISK. See Tamarix. 
TAMARIX (the old Latin name used by Pliny). 
Tamarisk. Orp. Tamariscinee. A genus comprising 
about twenty species of very elegant, greenhouse or 
hardy bushes or small trees, distributed where the 
order extends. Flowers white or pink; sepals four or 
five, rarely six, free; petals inserted under the disk, 
free or lightly connate at base; stamens four, five, eight, 
or ten; anthers apiculate; disk more or less lobed; 
inflorescence of lateral or terminal spikes or dense 
racemes. Leaves minute, scale-like, amplexicaul or 
sheathing. 
ORD., 
The manna of Mount Sinai, which consists ` 
wholly of mucilaginous sugar, is produced by a variety 
of T. gallica. 
of the greenhouse sorts. 
almost any conditions, and is admirably suited for orna- 
menting Phase apd it is also invaluable as i ne 
» and is very extensively employed along the 
Coast. Propagation may be readily effected by cuttings, 
inserted in sand, under a bell glass, the greenhouse 
es in heat. 
+ africana (African). A synonom of T. parviflora. 
+ articulata (jointed). 
very short sh: a minute tooth. 
used, aaia, Sairi “h. 10ft. to 25ft. 
greenhouse bush or coniferous-looking tree. SYN. 
ink, in. in diameter, dicecious ; spikes 
gE apga their peduncles. 
glabrous, green, r truncate and 
Sandy loam is most suitable to the culture | 
T. gallica will thrive under | 
Tamarix—continued. 
branchlets elongated, spreading-fastigiate, h. 6ft. India, 1823. 
A small, greenhouse tree. 
T, gallica (French).* Common Tamarisk. fi. white or pink, 
in catkin-like, obtuse spikes lin. long; disk Pa m five-angled. 
July to September. l. on the branchlets extremely minute, 
closely imbricated, ages re auricled, keeled; those on the 
older wood jin, long, subulate. Branchlets excessively slender 
and ree h. 5it. to 10ft. India to Europe. Hardy shrub 
or small tree. 
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FIG, 6. FLOWERING BRANCH OF TAMARIX GALLICA INDICA, 
indica (Indian obes of the disk entire or nearly so. 
+. ee oo: 2 divaricate. Greenhouse. See — 
Fig. 6. a: 
TE Dana eat aont Branch rost. Thiet, EE 
parvifiora (small-fowered).* , small; spikes or 
T. parvidora, (small fowered), (on lines long. Summer. a 
small, lanceolate, subulate, a little keeled, acuta. a 
Europe, Levant. Hardy shrub. (F. d. 8.896.) SYNS. T. africana, 
Europe, Levant, | Hardy tre i, 1956, 401). 
T, tetrandra (four anthered), pa work Prat ones dlaghe: 
Restrain a a ar 
m of T. 
T. tetrandra (four-anthered), of gardens. A synonym 
parviflora. 
TAMNUS. A synonym of Tamus (which se). Ff 
AMONEA from Tamone, the name of the genus 
a ean hi Ghinia, Ischnia, Kompfera, Lepto- 
small genus (four species) 
tropical 
cad , five-cleft. Leaves opposite, small, 
. spicata and T. verbenacea have been in 
a mag ; lost to cultivation. 
