TAMARIND.-TAMARINDUS. 



In Botany, of the Monadelphia Triandria Class, 

 and not of the Triandria Monogynia, as 

 classed by Linnaus. Natural Order, io- 

 mentacecB. 



THIS name is derived from tamar, the Arabic 

 name for the date ; and it is to the Arabians 

 that we owe a knowledge of the use of this 

 fruit in medicine. The ancient Greeks knew 

 nothing of it, and the first authors who pre- 

 scribe the tamarind are Serapion, Mesue, and 

 Avicenna. 



The tamarind- tree is a native of both 

 Indies, and thrives also in Egypt, Palestine, 

 Arabia, and other parts of Asia ; and it 

 appears, by Johnson's edition of Gerard, 

 to have been cultivated in England previous 

 to 1633. Miller states, that he has had 

 it grow upwards of three feet high in one 

 summer, and produce flowers the same year 



