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(Persoon), is valued for its sweet aperient pulp, and Cassia Biaziliense 

 is sometimes employed in the same way. The Tamarind (Tamarindvs 

 indica), is well known for its useful sub-acid pulp. The di-y velvet 

 Tamarinds of Sierra Leone, which are eaten under the name of 

 tamarinds are not used medicinally, hut as agreeable fruit. They are 

 produced by two species of Codarium — C. auctifolium (Afzelius.) and 

 C. obtusifolium (Afz.), both natives of Sierra Leone. These cuiious 

 fruits are remarkable for the close velvet-like pile formed by the hairs 

 which clothe the legumes, whence the generic name is derived (Kodion 

 the hide of a beast). Several of the Ccesalpieneae yield medicinal 

 balsams, others yield resins. Brazilian Copal is produced by the Bra- 

 zilian Locust tree, Hymenaa Conrbaril. This tree also has a sweet 

 farinacious pulp fLUing the legumes round the seeds, which is eaten as 

 food. The pods of another tree have for ages been used in Asia and 

 Europe in a similar manner. They are now common in the commerce 

 of this town under the name of Locust pods. They are the fruit of 

 Ceratonia siliqua, the carob tree, or Algaroba beam of Southern 

 Eui'ope. These are eaten extensively in Spain and Germany by the 

 lower orders. In the latter country they are called Johannisbrodt, or 

 St. John's bread, and are very generally believed to be the locusts 

 upon which St. John lived in the desert. They are now used 

 in this country for feeding cattle. Tbe Tamarind Plum, Dialium 

 Indicum (Lin.), is one of the most delicious fruits of Java, its legume 

 being filled with a very agreeable sub-acid pulp resembhng preserved 

 tamarind. 



Gums are yielded by one or two species of Bauhinia and by Pithe 

 colobium gummiferim ; and many of the species of Bauhinia, or 

 Mountain Ebony furnish valuable timber. The purple wood of Brazil 

 and Guiana, used in Birmingham in the manufacture of ramrods for 

 guns, is the heart wood of Copaifera pubiflora. The celebrated 

 Lign-aloes, or Eagle-wood, valued by Oriental nations as the most 

 precious and agreeable of all perfumes, is yielded by Aloexylon 

 Aghallocinn. 



One or two valuable tanning materials are found in this group. 

 Thus the Divi-divi, those curious curled brown pods so commonly seen 

 on our quays, are the ripe legumes of Ccesalpinia coriaria ; and a 

 material called Algarobilla, which occasionally comes, consists of the 

 broken pods, seeds, and a peculiar resin contained in the legumes of 

 Prosopis jialUda, all mixed up together. Algarobilla is not in much 

 demand. The pods of Cmsalpinia Papaia are known to tanners under 

 the name of Pi-pi, and although often largely mixed with some sorts of 

 Divi-divi, are rarely imported alone. 



