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TAMARINDUS. 



Lomeutacea5, Lin. — Leguniinosae. Jwavv. JJe Cand* 



indka. T. indica. WUhL Sp. Pl.3.p.577. HoH. 



Xew. 4. |). 1 34. Aubl.'Zi. Jacq. Amer. 



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T. indica. Be Cand. Prod. 2. p. 488?* 

 T. occidentalis . De Cand. Prod. 2. p. 489. 

 T. diffusus. Br. 125. 

 T. Gerbardi. Sl.2.j3. 45. 

 Tamarind Tree. Hughes. 189. 



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Dc Candolle has introduced two species of the Taniariiidus, 

 foundtid on the length of t[je pod, and the number of its 

 seeds. In this I cannot follow him, as I have seen the seed- 

 vessel to vary very much in length and number of seeds on the 

 same tree. On the West-Indian Tamarind Tree I have com- 

 monly seen the pod, or lomentiform fruit, fully six times as long- 

 as broad, and the seeds more than four in number, although, per- 

 haps, never twelve. It is sometimes single seeded, and nearly 



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