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reduced to sca-les. Stamens monadelplious, only 3 developed, the others 

 reduced to mere bristles at the top of the sheath ; anthers oblong, ver- 

 satile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary many-ovuled, with a stalk adnate 

 to the calyx-tube ; style filiform, stignia capitate. Pod linear- oblong, 

 many-seeded, with a thin crustaceous epicarp and thick pulpy mesocarp. 

 Seeds exalbuminous. One species, now planted everywhere in the tropics. 

 Tamarindus indica Linn. Sp. PI. 34. A large unarmed tree with 

 spreading branches, 40-60 feet high, stem 2-3 feet in diam., tlie young 

 branchlets at first puberulons, elsewhere quite glabrous. Leaves even- 

 pinnate, 2*5-6 in. long, leaflets 10-20 pairs rather close, oblong-obtuse, 

 •35-l"25 in. long, •2-"3 in. across, glabrous on both surfaces, medium- 

 green above, paler sometimes glaucescent beneath ; coriaceous, subsessile, 

 reticulate-veined; stipules linear, early caducous. Floiuers in sim-plG ov 

 panicled terminal or lateral racemes 2-4 in. long, bracts concave, cadu- 

 cous, •25-*3 in. long, obovate-elliptic, pedicels articulated under the base 

 of calyx, slender, '25 in. long, glabrous ; bracteoles small with puberu- 

 lous margins. Calyx '5 in. long, faintly puberulous, tube narrowly 

 turbinate, '2 in. ; limb 4-partite, segments subequal, '3 in. long, -2 in. wide, 

 ovate-acute, entire, much imbricated, membranous. Petals 3, an upper 

 and two lateral, yellowish with pink stripes, obovate-oblong, subequal, '4 

 in. long, slightly exceeding calyx-limb, "25 in. across, slightly narrowed 

 to a short claw; the two lower petals replaced by small scales. Stamens 

 3 fertile, anterior, connate nearly half their length, alternating with 

 rudimentary bristle-like staminodia ; anthers oblong, versatile. Ovary 

 stipitate, style rather short equalling the stamens ; stigma terminal, 

 obtuse, slightly thickened ; ovules 8-10 or more. Pod linear-oblong, 

 nearly straight, thickened, subcompressed ; 3-8 in. long, 1 in. wide, '4 in. 

 thick; outer layer of pericarp thin, crustaceous, scurfy; middle layer 

 pulpy, acid, traversed by fibres. Seeds 3-10, obovate-elliptic, com- 

 pressed, "6 in. long, "4 in. wide, "2 in. thick; testa thick shining, sides 

 areolate. DC. Prodr. II, 488; Roxb. Flor. Ind. Ill, 215; Wall.jDab. 

 5824 ; W. & A. Prodr. 285 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, 82 ; Bak. in Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. II, 273; Oliver, Flor. Trop. Africa, III, 307. T. occidentalis 

 Gaertn. Fruct. II, 310, t. 146; DO. Prodr. II, 488. T. umhrosa Salisb. 

 Prodr. 323. T. officinalis Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4563. 



Andamans ; Great Coco Island, introduced by the sea, not planted, 

 Prain! Kedah ; "growing wild at the top of limestone hills," Kunstler 

 1728! Selangor; "in dense old jungle," Kunstler 8613! Distuib. 

 Planted throughout the tropics ; believed by Oliver to be truly indige- 

 nous in Africa. 



50. SiNDORA Miq. 

 Unarmed lofty trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate ; leaflets few rigidly 



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