444 BENGAL PLANTS. 
282. Saraca Linn. 
Trees or large shrubs ; leaves even-pinnate ; leaflets coriaceous; | 
stipules small, connate, intrapetiolar ; stipels 0. Flowers race: 
mose, in condensed panicles, usually from old wood ; bracts small, 
deciduous ; bracteoles subpersistent, coloured. Sepals 4, connate 
in a long, disk- -bearing tube; the lobes oblong, hardly equal, peta 
loid, much imbricate. Petals 0. Stamen s usually 7, rarely 3-4; 
filaments long, filiform ; anthers versatile ; dchiwogle longitudinal 
Ovary stipitate, stipe adnate below to disk and produced — 
it; ovules many; style long, filiform; stigma small, capitate 
Fruit a flattened, oblong, firmly coriaceous or almost. ~om 
continuous within. Seeds thick, flattened or subterete; al 
-men 0. 861 
679. SaRaca indica Linn.; F. B. I. ii. 271; E. D. 8. 50) 
Jonesia Asoca F. I. ii. 218, 
Generally planted ; wild in Chittagong. 
A low tree. Vernac. Asoka. 
283. Tamarindus Linn. 
A tree; leaves even-pinnate; leaflets opposite, aa ) ‘i 
Stipules minute, caducous ; stipels 0. Flowers in race me pee 
ends of branches; a ovate; bracteoles nis : 
what ody ores se 4, connate a in a narrowly turbinat 
the ovate lateral, the 2 lowest represented by bristles veers sh 
Stamens 3 perfect, aera in a sheath split arate with 
lomentum with brittle epicarp, pulpy mesocarp, a? wae 
endocarp, septate — Seeds pba orbicular, compre 
testa firm; albumen 913; 
lated 6, inpica Linn.; F. I. ii. 215; F. B. I. ii. 
E. D. 8. 28, 
Generally planted. 
A tall tree. Beng. Tintuli, tinturi; Hind. Auli, byte 
