Book VIII. The Natural Fiiftory of &e. 
the Conftitution of Perfons in hot Countries ; for, by the {mall Quantity 
of Oil and Salts they contain, they are lefs liable to produce grofs Hu- 
mours than animal Food. 
The 'TaMarind-Trees; Lat. Tamarindus. 
plates are of two Sorts; at leaft different in the Tafte of their Fiuit, 
the one bearing a four Fruit, the other of a Mixture of a fweet and 
acid Tafte. 
The Trees, though they thus differ in their F ruit, are however of the 
fame Bulk,- Make, and ‘Texture. Each having numerous large Roots, 
and Branches, the latter by their many Subdivifions, and being thickly 
cloathed with very many pennated Leaves, afford an agreeable Shade. 
The Flowers are yellow, fomewhat {peckled with Purple; and of the 
papilionaceous Kind. — 
Thefe are fucceeded by falcated Pods, confifting of four or five Cells, 
each including a flattifh oval Stone inclofed in a Snuff-coloured Pulp. 
This Pod is of a brownith grey Colour ; when ripe, eafily broken, and 
feparated from the Pulp. 
This, and the inclofed Stones, are faftencd together by a great many finall 
flender Fibres from the woody Stalk, which run through the Pod. 
This Pulp is preferved in Sugar, and fent to England, or elfewhere ; 
and it is looked upon, taken inwardly, to be a good Cooler in Fevers. 
Thefe Trees are not peculiar to our Climates; for they thrive not 
only in Egypt, but likewife in the Land of Palefline, in Arabia, and 
in other Parts of dfa. 
The TREE JEssaMIN, 
TH S grows to be a confiderably large ftragoling Tree, cloathed with 
many Leaves generally. fet in Groups on the blunt Extremities of the 
Branches. 
The Flowers are pentapetalous, and are fucceeded by long Pods. 
This Tree is defcribed in Plate XVII, 
The Spanisu Asu. 
HIS Tree hath an Afh-coloured Bark: the Trunk of it, in rich fhady 
- Land, grows to fo great a Bulk, that the Heart alone is of a con- 
fiderable Bignefs. 
Its Branches, which are clothed with oblong, pointed Leaves, placed in 
Pairs, each Leaf about three Inches long, and one broad, grow generally very 
upright, till near their Extremities, where they are fubdivided into many 
lefler ; and then bend wavingly downwards, clothed with many pendulous 
Groups of papilionaceous F lowers, of a fine violet Colour. 
Thefe 
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