450 ORD. XXV. Lomentacce. TAMARINDUS INDICUS. 
to the first volume in the first edition of this work. Since that 
time however, we have had an opportunity of examining the 
recent flower of the Tamarind, from which we have no doubt of 
its having the true character of the monadelphia class, in which we 
have now placed it, and for which we have lately had the pommaiie 
of Schreber,|| and that of De Loureiro.t 
This tree, which appears upon various authorities, to be a native 
of both Indies,» America, Egypt, and Arabia, was cultivated in 
Britain previous to the year 1633; for in Johnson’s edition of 
Gerard we are told, that the figure of the Tamarind “ is of a plant 
some six months old, arisen of a-seed: and such by sowing of seeds. 
I have seene growing in the garden of my deceased friend Mr. 
Tuggy.”* Miller informs us, that Tamarind plants, “ if rightly 
managed, will grow very fast;” adding, “ for I, have had them 
upwards of three feet high in one summer, from seed, and have 
had two plants, which produced flowers the same season they were 
sown; but this was accidental, for none of the older plants have 
produced any flowers, although ! have several plants of different 
ages, some of which are sixteen or eighteen years old, and about 
twelve feet high, with large spreading tops.”* To this it may be 
added, that a healthy tree of this species, now in the Royal Botanic 
Garden at Kew, much larger and older than those mentioned by 
Miller, has not been known to flower for several years before the 
present summer ; this fortunately enables us to publish a perfect 
specimen of it represented by the annexed plate, which will be 
|| V. Genera plant. Class Monadelph. Ord. Triand. p. 450. 
+ He says, A Classe Triandria ad Monadelphiam transtuli hoc genus non solum 
propria observatione fretus, sed etiam ab ipso Linnwo monitus filamenta habere 
inferne connata. Flor. Cochin. p. 403, 
In order to make this more evident, we have displayed the filaments as they ap 
peared in our specimen. ‘The rudiments of other filaments probably countinited 
that part of the generic character which has not been noticed in our description. 
» Sir Hans Sloane however says, ‘‘ these trees were strangers in the West Indies, 
and planted first at Acapulco.” L.c. ‘ L.c. p. 1608  * See Dict. 
