2£0 BOTANICAL OBSERVATIONS 



9. Aivtlica': 



Syn. Tintidi, Chinchd. 



Vulg. Tintiri ; TamriC lki?idi , or Indian Date. 



Link. Tamarindics . 



The flowers of the Tamarind are so exquisitely 

 beautiful, the fruit so salubrious when an acid sher- 

 bet is required, the leaves so elegantly formed and 

 arranged, and the whole tree so magnificent, that I 

 cculd not refrain from giving a place in this series to 

 a plant already well known. In all the flowers, how- 

 ever, that I have examined, the coalition of the sta- 

 mens appeared so invariably, that the Tamarind should 

 be removed, I think, to the sixteenth class; and it 

 were to be wished that so barbarous a word as Tama- 

 rlndus\ corrupted from an Arabic phrase absurd in 

 itself, since the plant has no sort of resemblance to a 

 date-tree, could, without inconvenience, be rejected, 

 and its Indian appellation admitted in its room. 

 10. Sara: ox Arrow-cane. 

 Syn. Gundra, or playful; Tejanaca, or Acute. 

 Vulg. Ser, Ser her i. 

 Linn. Spontaneous Saccharum. 

 Cal. Glume two-valved ; valves oblong-lanced, 



pointed, sub-equal, girt with silky diverging hairs, 



exquisitely soft and delicate,, more than twice as 



long as the flower. 

 Cor. One valved, acute, fringed. . 

 St am. Filaments three, capillary ; Anthers oblong, 



incumbent. 

 Pi st. Gems very minute; styles two, thread-form. 



Stigmas feathery, 



Flowers 



