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physicians consider the pulp to be cardiacal, astringent and 
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i. 
_ aperient, useful for checking bilious vomiting, and for purging 
the system of bile and adust humours; when used as an 
 aperient it should be given with a very small quantity of fluid. 
3 A gargle of Tamarind water is recommended in sore throat. 
_ The seeds are said to be a good astringent, boiled they are used 
, 48 a poultice to boils, pounded with water they are applied to 
_ the crown of the head in cough and relaxation of the uvula. 
_ The leaves crushed with water and expressed yield an acid 
considered to have astringent and tonic properties. (Makhzan- 
Tamarind tree to be injurious to health, and it is stated that 
e cloth of tents allowed to remain long under the trees 
Plants also are said not to grow under them, 
ally the case, as we have often seen fine 
a and other shade loving plants 
Mr. J. G. Prebble has brought 
© our notice a peculiar exudation from an old tamarind tree. 
t consists almost entirely of oxalate of calcium, and flows from 
he tree in a liquid or syrupy State, but afterwards dries into 
hite crystalline masses. : 
- Description.—The fruit is 
ompressed, curved, or nearly 
the thickness of the finger, and 
omes rotten. 
ut this is not universal 
rops of Andrographis paniculat 
owing under Tamarind trees. 
an oblong or linear-oblong, slightly 
straight, pendulous legume, of 
3 to 6 inches in length, sup- 
in but hard and brittle 
exhibit any very evident sutures. 
¢ which and starting from the 
Ik are strong woody ramifying ‘nerves; one of these extends 
two others on either side 
while between these two there 
lar and more slender nerves, 
