100 NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 
is traversed by ramified woody fibro-vascular bundles. The endocarp 
is like parchment or more or less leathery, and forms as many com- 
pletely closed chambers as there are seeds, each chamber separating 
easily from its neighbours through the double transverse false dis- 
Tamarindus indica. 
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Habit (3). 
sepiments. The descending compressed obovate seeds contain within 
their coriaceous coats a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, whose short 
superior radicle is completely surrounded by the auricled bases of 
the cotyledons. Only one species’ of Tamarind tree is known, a 
native of tropical Asia or Africa, which has been transported into 
all warm countries ; it is an unarmed tree, whose alternate paripin- 
17. indica L., Spec., 48—RuHEED., Hort. loc. cit., n. 2.—Jacg., Amer., 10, t. 10, 179.— 
Malab., i. t. 23.—Rumpu., Herb. Amboin., ii. t. 7. officinalis Hoox., in Bot. Mag,, t. 4563.— 
23.—DC., Mém. Légum., ii. t. 24, fig. 1183.—  Mrg,, Fl. Ind.-Bat, i. p. i. 82—Watp., Ann, 
T. occidentalis Gmriy., loc. cit.—DC., Prodr., iv, 595.—Outv., Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. 307. 
