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, And another, and far higher poet, in that strange and | 
beautiful romance of *'Thalaba," introduces the maid 
Oneiza proffering a draught of tamarind water to the . 
guest of her father’s tent, unconscious that this guest is 
a concealed sorcerer.. 
* The damsel from the tamarind tree 
The stranger smiled, and praised, and drank again.” 
The following curious account of the derivation of the 
name Tamarind; is from Burton's Outlines of Botany : 
* The date, called Tamar- by the ‘Arabs, being Mis 
most common and valuable. fruit, other important : 
have been called dates, or tamars likewise, with some 
distinctive epithet adjoined. Hence the one in question 
received the name of Tamar-hendi, the date of India, 
whence our word Tamarind. Ignorance or neglect of 
this circumstance led botanists to add Indica as the spe- 
cific name, to a generic one in which the habitat of the 
plant already was included.” Considering therefore 
that Tumar-indus Indica is a “ vile pleonasm," Burton 
proposes to call it Tamarindus orientalis, in distinction 
- the Tamarindus occidentalis. 
Turosrowa cacao. This isthe Món sik prices 
the Cacao or Chocolate-nut of commerce ; and it is'im- 
portant that the true spelling and pronunciation of the 
word should be attended to. - preserved, in order to 
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