294 XL. LEGUMIK0SJJ3. [Labiclm, 



Eange, F. Mueller (in leaf only). The two forms I had distinguished, with 1-foliolate or 

 very unequally 3-folioIatc leaves, and with nearly equal 5-foliolate leaves, may be found on 

 different branches of the same specimen. 



5. L. punctata, Benfk. in LiiidL Swan R'w, Jpp. 15. An undershrub, 

 with ascending or erect almost simple stemS; of 1 to \\ ft.j more or less flat- 

 tened and usually glabrous. Leaves all simple, the lower ones sometimes 

 ovate, 1 to 2 in. long, the upper ones lanceolate or linear, attaining often 4 

 or 5 in., coriaceous, reticulate and scabrous above, with minute dots, which 

 however are often visible in some other species, glabrous or slightly pubescent 

 underneath. Eacemes very short and several- flowered. Sepals 4, about 4 

 lines'long, the outer ones concave and rather acute, the inner more petal-like. 

 Petals 4, rather longer than the calyx. Anthers both of the same size. Ovaiy 

 slightly pubescent, wdth 2 ovules. Pod not seen.— Meissn. in PI. Preiss. 

 i. 24. 



^V. Australia. Swan River and Darling Range, Collie^ Brummond, \st Coll and 

 2nd ColL'n, 279, Frelss, n, 1025, 1026 ; Harvey River, Oldjield. 



83. TAMARINDUS, Linn. 



r 



Sepals 4, united at the base into a turbinate tube, the free portion or seg- 

 ments much imbricate. Petals 3, the lateral ones ovate, the upper inner one 

 narrower, concave. Stamens incurved, united in a sheath to the middle, 3 or 

 rarely 2 only perfect, with ovate anthers, 4 or 5 others reduced to short 

 teeth at the top of the sheath. Ovary stipitate, with several ovules ; style m- 

 flexed, rather thick, with a truncate stigma. Pod linear or oblong-linear, 

 curved, thick, but slightly compressed, the epicarp crustaceous and fragile, 

 the mesocarp pulpy, the endocarp thick and fleshy, forming complete parti- 

 tions between the" seeds. Seeds broadly obovate, flattened ; testa rather 

 thicL; albumen none; embryo straight, Avith a short radicle, — Tree. Leaves 

 abruptly pinnate. Plowers in terminal racemes. 



Tlie genus contains only one species, widely spread over tropical regions. 



1. T. indicus, Linn.i^ DC. Prod. ii. 488. A hard-wooded tree, with a 

 spreading head and a pale or glaucous glabrous foliage. Leaflets 1 to 20 pairs, 

 oblong-linear, obtuse, | to f in. long. Stipules small, deciduous. ^^^^^J*^^^ 

 yellow, the racemes short and loose, really terminal, but usually on veiy shorx 

 branchlets so as to appear lateral and shorter than the leaves. Bracts very 

 deciduous. Calyx-segments about 4 lines long. Petals rather longer, ro 

 about 1 in. broad, vaiying in length according to the number of seeds npene , 

 usually 2 or 3. 



N. AustraUa. On the cliffs at the entrance to Victoria river, F. Mueller [ir^^^^ ^^V^ 

 Port Essington, Leichhardt (fragments of a raceme). Common, wild or cultivated, i 

 pical Asia and Africa, and introduced into the 'West Indies. This tree supplies t^e 

 known Tamarhids, used as conserves and in medicine. The Australian specimens o 

 fragmentary only, ] have described it from Indian ones. 



83. BAUfilNIA, Linn. 

 Sepals united at the base into a short or long disk-bearing tube, the i^^ 

 part separating into 5 or fewer valvate or induplicatc lobes. • Petals 5, 



