“raMaRrNDUS INDICA, ORD. XXV. Lomentacee. 449 
alternate, consisting of several parts (about 14) of small pinne, 
which are opposite, oblong, obtuse, entire, smooth, of a yellowish 
green colour, and stand upon very short footstalks: the flowers 
approach to the papilionaceous kind, and are produced in racemi 
or lateral clusters; the calyx consists of four deciduous leaves, 
which are patent or reflexed, oblong, or rather ovate, entire, 
smooth, nearly equal in size, and straw-coloured or yellowish: 
the petals are three, ovate, concave, acute, indented, and plaited 
at the edges, about the length of the calyx, and of a yellowish 
colour, beautifully variegated with red veins: the peduncles are 
about half an inch long, and each furnished with a joint, at which 
the flower turns inwards: the filaments are commonly three, but 
in some flowers we have found four, in others only two; they are 
purple, united at the base, and furnished with incumbent brownish 
antherz: the germen is oblong, compressed, incurved, standing 
upon a short pedickas the style is tapering, somewhat longer ‘Hiden 
the filaments, and terminated by an obtuse stigma: the fruit is a 
pod of a roundish compressed form, from three to five inches long, 
containing two, three, or four flattish angular shining seeds, lodged 
in a dark pulpy matter, and covered by several rough longitudinal 
fibres. The flowers, according to thie appear in October and 
November. 
The generic character of Tamarindus is wholly feunded upon 
this species, as no other of the same family has hitherto been dis- 
covered.* Though Linnzus in his last edition of the Genera 
plantarum has followed Jacquin’s description of the Tamarindus, 
in observing that the filaments are united at the base, a circum- 
stance which ought to have placed it in the class Monadelphia, 
yet notwithstanding this, they neither thought proper to remove 
it from the class Triandria, where it also has heen since retained 
in Murray's edition of the System Vegetabilium; and is conse- 
quently thus classed by us in the systematic arrangement prefixed 
-* Considerable difference in the shape of the pod and sweetness of the pulp hae 
been observed; but this variety depends upon the locality of the tree, 
No, 38.—von. 3. 5 x 
