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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



is traversed by ramified woody fibro-vascular bundles. The endocarp 

 is like parchment or more or less leathery, and forms as many com- 

 pletely closed chambers as there are seeds, each chamber separating 

 easily from its neighbours through the double transverse false dis- 



Tama/rvndus indica. 



Vu:. 7:'.. 

 Habit (i). 



sepiments. The descending compressed obovate seeds contain within 

 their coriaceous coats a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, whose short 

 superior radicle is completely surrounded by the auricled bases of 

 the cotyledons. Only one species 1 of Tamarind tree is known, a 

 native of tropical Asia or Africa, which has been transported into 

 all warm countries ; it is an unarmed tree, whose alternate paripin- 



1 T. indica L., Spec, 48 — Rheed., Hort. loc. cit., n. 2. — Jacq., Amer., 10, t. 10, 179. — 



Malah., i. t. 23. — Rumph., Herb. Amboin., ii. t. T. officinal is Hook., in Bot. Mag., t. 4563. — 



23.— DC, Mem. Legwn., ii. t. 21, fig. 113.— Miq., Fl. Ind.-Bat., i. p. i. 82.— W\n\. Ann., 



T. occidentalis G.ei'.t.w, he. cit. — DC, Prodr., iv. 595. — Oliv., Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 307. 



