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Stem weak, climbing, slightly branched, glabrous. 



Leaves cauline, alternate, pinnate (bi-tri-jugate), terminat- 

 ing in tendrils (metamorphosed leaflets) ; leaflets ovate, entire, 

 glabrous, glaucous ; stipules foliaceous, ovate-cordate, slightly 

 crenate. 



Stamens large, irregular (papilionaceous), in two- or three- 

 flowered, axillary, pedunculate racemes. 



Cai.yx gamosepalous, five-toothed, bilabiate, persistent. 



Corolla papilionaceous, white; vexilluvi large, broadly 

 obcordate, erect ; alcE roundish, converging, shorter than the 

 compressed, curved carina. 



Stamens perigynous, decandrous, diadelphous ; filaments 

 subulate above ; anthers two-celled, dehiscing longitudinally. 



Pistil apocarpous, monogynous ; ovary superior, oblong, 

 compressed, one-celled ; style terminal, subfalcate ; stigma 

 simple ; ovules few, attached to the ventral suture. 



Fruit a legume ; seeds few (3-9), globose, exalbuminous, with 



TAMARIND : Tamar Indus indica. 

 Class, Dicotyledons. Division, Calycifloras. 



A large much-branched (introduced) tree, with broadly 

 spreading crown, alternate multifoliolate leaves and yellowish 

 or red-striped flowers in simple or panicled racemes. 



Extremities distichously branched, often rugulose, glabrous, 

 or at first thinly pubescent or puberulous. 



Leaves alternate, distichous, abruptly pinnate, glabrous ; 

 leaflets usually in nine to twenty-one pairs, small (one-third to 

 one- quarter inch long), coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, reticulate, 

 subsessile ; stipules linear, early caducous. 



Flowers small, in simple or panicled, terminal or lateral 

 racemes ; bracts obovate-elliptical (one-quarter to one-third 

 inch), concave, caducous ; bracteoles valvate, enclosing the 

 early bud, pubescent, caducous ; pedicels spreading, equalling or 

 shorter than the flowers. 



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