86 BOTANY OF SOCOTRA. 



Socotra. Common on the plains about villages. B.C.S. n. 654. 

 Schweinf. n. 330. 



Distrib. Nile Land and Arabia to Scindh. 



5. C. Absus, Linn. Sp. 537 ; DC. Prod. ii. 500 ; Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 279 ; Baker in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 265. 



Socotra. Not common near kabitati ons. B.C.S.n. 655. 

 Distrib. Common in the tropics of the old world. 



23. TAMARINDUS. 



Tamarindus, Linn. Gen. n. 46 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 581. 



Monotypic. The only species now cultivated everywhere in the tropics. 



T. indica, Linn. Sp. 48 ; DC. Prod. ii. 488 ; Oliv. Flor. Trop. Afr. ii. 308 ; 

 Baker in Hook. Flor. Brit. Ind. ii. 273. 



T. officinalis, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4563. 



Nom Vern. Sobha (B.C.S.). 



Socotra. A few trees in several localities. B.C.S. n. 414. 



Distrib. Of the genus. 



24. ENTADA. 



Entada, Adans. ex DC. Mem. Leg. 419, tt. 61, 62 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PL i. 589. 



A small genus, chiefly of African species, a few are American, and one is a 

 common tropical weed. 



Entada sp. 



A beautiful and graceful tree, of which our material is too fragmentary to 

 permit identification, is provisionally referred to this genus. It has some 

 resemblance with Acacia pennivenia, Schweinf. (see page 88), and the inhabitants 

 of Socotra give to it the same name. The following is a brief description, so 

 far as our specimens allow : — 



Arbor gracilis glabra rarnis elongatis pendulis leviter verrucosis ; foliis tenuibus bipinnatis 

 3| poll, longis, pinnis 2-3-jugis 1£ poll, longis, foliolis 11-17 oppositis v. suboppositis v. 

 alternis oblanceolatis v. obcuneatis sessilibus glaucis \-fy poll, longis ^V~8 P ^- ^ a ^ s > 

 stipulis non-spinosis caducis. 



Nom Vern. Tomhor (B.C.S.). 



Socotra. On the slopes of Haghier. B.C.S. n. 635. 



25. DICHROSTACHYS. 



Dichrostachys, DC. Mem. Leg. 428, t. 67 ; Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. i. 592. 



A small genus of tropical Africa and Asia, and also found in Australia 



