— viz, 
532 LEGUMINOS Zz. 
perties, and the leaves of which, boiled in milk and mixed with ~ 
honey, are used as an application to scaly cutaneous eruptions 
In Nepaul the leaves of Colutea nepalensis, Sims., are 
used as a purgative. 
TAMARINDUS INDICA, Linn. 
Fig.—Bedd. Fl. Sylv., t. 184; Bentl. and Trim., t. 92. 
Tamarind tree (Hng.), Tamarinier de Inde (F’r.). The pulp, 
leaves and seeds. - 
Hab.—Africa (?) Cultivated throughout the tropics. 
Vernacular.-—Imli, Amli (Hind., Guz.), Chintz (Mar.), 
Puliyam- -pazham (Tam.), Tentul (Beng.), Chinta-pandu (T'el.), 
Hunase (Can.). 
History, Uses, &c.—There wiedia appear to be little © 
doubt that the Tamarind tree is a native of some part of India, 
probably the South. It is found in a cultivated or semi- culti- 
vated state almost everywhere, and the fruit, besides being an 
important article of diet, is valued by the Hindus as a refri- 
gerant, digestive, carminative and laxative, useful in febrile 
states of the system, costiveness, &c. The ashes of the burnt | 
suber are used as an alkaline medicine in acidity of the urine 
‘and gonorrhwa, the pulp and also the leaves (puliyam-gali, 
Tam.), are applied externally in the form of a poultice to 
inflammatory swellings. 
_ The Sanskrit names of the Tamarind are Tintidi and Amlika. 
The word ‘Tamarind’ appears to be derived from the Arabic 
Tamar-Hindi (Indian date), and it was doubtless through the 
Arabians that a knowledge of the fruit passed during the 
Middle Ages into Europe, where, until correctly described by 
Garcia d’Orta, it was supposed to be produced by a kind of: 2 
Indian palm. ; 
The author of the Makhzan-el-Adwiya donelbsc two kinds, s 
the red, small-seeded Guzerat variety, and the common ~ 
sh es: The ie: imi by. far the best. Mahopneie 
