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the Indian Flora has made short work of this pleasing sentiment, and 

 the present name is as commonplace as those of most other beautiful 

 trees. 



51. TAMARINDUS. Tamarind. 



T. Indica. Leaflets very numerous, obtuse, flowers few to- 

 gether in lax racemes, pale yellow, beautifully streaked with red, 

 pod thick, more or less curved. Chinch, amli. 



Very commo-n : but a doubtful native of India (H.). Though the 

 flowers are not conspicuous they are exceedingly beautiful when ex- 

 amined ; and in favourable districts, as the Konkan and Guzerat, 

 this is by shape and foliage one of the noblest of trees. The W. 

 Indian Tamarind is a different, but closely allied species. 



(d) BAUHINIEJE. 



52. BAUHINIA. Mountain ebony. 



Note, This genus has leaves of a shape almost unique, nearly cir- 

 cular, but divided into two equal lobes from the top, sometimes close 

 down to the petiole. 



1. B. racemosa. A small crooked tree, leaves deeply 

 divided, flowers in racemes yellow or white small, calyx spath- 

 ulate split on one side, stamens 10, all fertile, pod linear, 

 woody, thick, seeds oval, brown. Apia, dsandra, wanrdja. 



Common in most parts of India. 



2. B. Valilii. A very large climber with large leaves downy 

 beneath, divided not far down, but deeply cordate, flowers 

 large white, in long-stalked racemes, fertile stamens 3 to 5, 

 pods very long and thin, rusty and downy, 8 to 12-seeded. 

 ChdmbuU, mdwali. 



Common in some parts of the Konkan and Ghauts, but I have seen 

 it only in the palm house at Kew. The leaves are large enough to 

 be used as plates, and the right to collect them is (or was) sold in the 

 Colaba collectorate. 



* B. lawii, a climber, leaves deeply cordate, not deeply lobed, 

 racemes dense, downy, stigoja large peltate. * JB. diphylla, a smooth 

 twiner with curled tendrils, flowers large, pod many-seeded. These 

 two are attributed by H. to the Konkan, but very insufficiently de- 

 scribed. B. malabarica, *-hrub or small tree, leaves slightly cor- 

 date, not deeply lobed, flowers large, creamy white, stamens all 

 fertile, alternately shorter, pod long-stalked, slightly falcate. Kdn- 

 chan, Joral, amli. Matheran (Birdwood) ; W. Ghauts (Brandis). 



In gardens B. purpurea, devkanchan, atmdti, flowers large, deep 

 rose-colour, and B. variegata, Kanchan, flowers white or variegated 

 with red or yellow. B. calls them wild in most parts of India. 



SUB-ORDER III. MIMOSE.E. 



Leaves (in all here given) bipinnate, flowers very small but 

 many together, petals regular, usually united above the base. 



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