Tamarindus."] L. LEGUMINOSJE. (J. G. Baker.) 273 



racemes, the most showy of those of the Indian Leguminosse ; pedicels 2-4 in., with a 

 pair of large lanceolate persistent coloured bracteoles at the apex enclosing the buds. 

 Sepals membranous, coloured, 1 in. long. Petals mixed brilliant red and yellow, the 

 upper one 2 in. long and broad ; tube as long as the sepals, cylindrical. Pod like 

 that of a Millettia, % ft. long, l in. broad, glabrous, truncate, 4-6-seeded. 



111. TABXARXNDUS, Linn. 



A spineless tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Flowers racemed. Calyx-tube 

 turbinate ; disk produced some* distance above its base ; teeth lanceolate, much 

 imbricated, the two lowest connate. Petals only the three upper developed, 

 the two lateral ovate, the upper hooded, the two lower reduced to scales. 

 Stamens monadelphous, only 3 developed, the others reduced to mere bristles at 

 the top of the sheath ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing- . longitudinally. 

 Ovary many-ovuled, with a stalk adnate to the calyx-tube ; style filiform, 

 stigma capitate. Pod ligulate, many-seeded, with a thin crustaceous epicarp 

 and thick pulpy mesocarp. Seeds exalbuminous. A single species. 



1. T. indica, Linn. ; DC. Prodr. ii. 488 ; Roxl. Fl. Ind. iii. 215 ; Wall 

 Cat. 5824 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 285 ; Dalz. $ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 82 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 

 t. 184. T. occidentalis, Gaertn. ; DC. loc. cit. T. officinalis, Hook. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 4563. 



Diffused through India and the Tropics generally, probably indigenous in 

 Africa. 



A large unarmed tree. Leaves abruptly' pinnate, with 20-40, glabrescent, close 

 obtuse opposite oblong leaflets. Flowers few together, in copious lax racemes at the 

 end of the branchlets ; pedicels articulated at the base of the calyx ; bracts boat- 

 shaped, enclosing the buds, caducous. Petals under in. long, yellow, striped with 

 red. Pod 3-6 in. by 1 in. or more, 3-10-seeded. 



112. HUltfBOLDTIA, Yalil. 



Unarmed erect small trees. Leaves abruptly pinnate, with persistent usually 

 peltate stipules. Flowers small, in copious racemes, each furnished with a pair 

 of persistent coloured bracteoles at the base. Calyx-tube turbinate, with the 

 disk produced some distance above its base ; sepals 4, oblong, subequal, im- 

 bricated. Petals 5 or 3, oblong-spathulate, clawed, subequal, exceeding the 

 calyx. Stamens 5, equal, exserted, alternating with 5 minute staminodes, 

 filaments filiform ; anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing' longitudinally. Ovary 

 with a stalk immersed in the disk, linear, few-ovuled ; style very long, filiform, 

 stigma terminal. Pod flat, dehiscent, rigidly coriaceous. Seeds exalbuminous. 

 DISTEIB. Species 5, the other Tropical African. 



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1. K. laurifolia, Vahl; DC. Prodr. ii. 488; branches hollow, nodes 

 constricted, stipule-spur lanceolate, leaves nearly sessile, leaflets 8-10, petiolules 

 short, petals 5. R. Br. in Watt. PL As. Rar. iii. 18; W. fy A. Prodr. 285 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 1605; Bedd. FL Sylv. 93. Batschia laurifolia, VaM, Symb. 39, 

 t. 56. 



MALABAR and CEYXON. 



A low tree, with the intern odes of the branchlets conspicuously swollen. Leaves 

 ^-1 ft. long ; leaflets oblong, cuspidate, rigidly subcoriaceous, glabrous, 3-4 in. long ; 

 stipules coriaceous, very large, oblong-lanceolate, 1 in. or more long above the attach- 

 ment. Eacemes dense, axillary, drooping, nearly sessile, 3-6 in. long ; pedicels - 

 in. Flower f in. long, exclusive of the exserted stamens ; bracteoles oblong-spathu- 

 late, half as long as the calyx. Pod rigid, ligulate-oblong, 3-4 in. long. Seeds 3-4. 

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