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Srec. Cuan. Shrubby: leaves simple, oval: peduncles axils 
lary, once or twite bifid; ultimate divisions 1-flowéted, with a pair 
of large opposite roundish bracts hiding the calyx, and a pair at the 
forks of the pedunéles: calyx bowl-shaped, unequally 5-toothed, 
caducous: flowers large, white. 
‘Silhet. Flowering in May and June. 
GENUS LXXXIII. TAMARINDUS. 
Monadelphia Enneandria. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. From the Arabic term Tamar-i-Hindi, the Indian 
date, ‘ 
Gen. Cuar. Calyx tubular at the base: limb 2-lipped, reflex- 
ed; upper lip 3-partite, lower broad, 2-toothed: petals 3, alternat- 
ing with the segments of the upper lip of the calyx, 2 of them 
evate, the middle one cucullate: stamens 9-10, seven very short 
and sterile, the others Jonger and bearing anthers: style subulate : 
legume linear, more ot less curved, 1+celled, 3-19-seeded, with a 
pulpy sarcocarp: seeds bluntly 4-angled, obliquely truncated at 
the hilum. 
(1) T. Inptca. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 285.—Dec. prod. II. p. 488.— 
Roxb. fl. Ind. III. p. 215. 
Syn. TT. occidentalis, Gaertn. Dec. l. c. p. 489. 
Engrav. Rumph. Amb. II. t. 23.—Rheede Mal. I. t. 23.— 
Gaertn. fr. J]. t. 146. f. 2. 
Sree. Car. Tree; leaves abruptly pinnated ; leaflets numer- 
ous: flowers racemose, somewhat orange, streaked with scarlet, 
slightly fragrant. 
Peninsula. Bengal. Assam. Flowering in May and June. 
The wood of the Tamarind tree is hard, durable and beautifully 
veined. The kernels of the seeds reduced to fine powder and boil« 
ed form a tenacious paste and a strong wood-cement if thin glue be 
added. This paste simply smeared on the skin rapidly promotes 
suppuration in indolent boils. (Roxb.-Wight.) There are two 
or three varieties. The pulp of the fruit of one is rose-coloured. 
This makes a very fine preserve. s 
GENUS LXXXIV. CASSIA,. 
Deeandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. Said to be from the Hebrew Ketzioth, which was pro3 
bably applied to a species of laurel. 
