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Fair Antigua Tamarinds sold (Nov. 1910) in bond (London) at 

 10s. 6d. per cwt. (Agric. News, Barbados, 1910, p. 15), and at the 

 present time (Feb. 1911) the value in London is about 10s. per cwt. 

 for W. Indian, and 12s. 6d. per cwt. for E. Indian. 



The kernels are eaten in India in times of scarcity, and occasionally 

 at ordinary times ; powdered and boiled in a small quantity of water 

 the seeds make a tenacious glue or size used by wool weavers, saddlers 

 and book-binders (Hooper, I.e. p. 15). 



The leaves are the food of the " Tsamian tsamia " silkworm in 

 N. Nigeria. In Bauchi the worms pupate in the hollow trees ; the 

 cocoons are collected and boiled in water which has been filtered 

 through wood ashes. White or brown silk of worms fed on this tree 

 is described as the best quality ; price for 7 lbs. of cocoons at Diwoti 

 being £1 (Dudgeon, I.e. pp. 161, 162). 



The wood is very hard and heavy — 61-80 lbs. per cubic foot ; 

 used in India for wheels, mallets, planes, furniture, rice-pounders, 

 oil and sugar mills, and for turnery (Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. p. 279). 



Propagated by seeds, easily cultivated, and is a very ornamental 

 tree, suitable for avenues, &c. The tree is common in various parts 

 of Nigeria — fairly extensive forests of it occur near the banks of the 

 Okpara river, W. Prov. S. Nigeria (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 

 1910, p. 73), in Kontagora (Dalziel, Bull. Imp. Inst. 1907, p. 258), and 

 Bauchi (Dudgeon, I.e.), &c. In Jamaica, where the tree often has a 

 trunk diameter of 5 feet, it grows everywhere up to about 3000 feet 

 in altitude (W. Indian Bull. ix. 1909, p. 314). 



The yield of fruit from a large tree is given, in India at 5 or 6 

 maunds [411 — 493 lbs.] (Hooper, I.e. p. 13). 



Ref. — " Tamarindi Pulpa," in Pharmacographia, Fliickiger & Han- 

 bury, pp. 224-227 (Macmillan & Co., London, 1879). " Tamarindus 



indica," in Med. PI. Bentley & Trimen, ii. No. 92, pp. 4 (Churchill, 



London, 1880). " Tamarindus indica," in Med. Pflanzen, Kohler 



ii. 3| pages. " Tamarindus indica," in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, 



Watt, vi. pt. 3-B, 1893, pp. 404-409. " Tamarinde" in Indische Heil- 



und Nutzpflanzen, Tschirch, pp. 84-85 (R. Gaertners Verlagsbuchhand- 



lung, Berlin, 1892). " Tamarin," in Les Drogues Simples d'origine 



vegetale, Planchon & Collin, ii. pp. 471-473. " Tamarindus," in 



The National Standard Dispensatory, Hare, Caspari & Rusby, 

 pp. 1514-1516 (Lea Brothers & Co. Philadelphia and New York, 1905). 



The Tamarind, Lyon, Bureau of Agric. Philippine Is. Bull. 



No. 6, 1905, pp. 5-7. " Tamarindus indica" in PI. Util. du 



Congo, De Wildeman, ii. fasc. 1, Art. vi. pp. 151-153. " Tamarind : 



The Uses and Composition of Tamarind Seeds," Hooper, in Agric. 



Ledger, No. 2, 1907, pp. 13-16. u Tamarindus indica,'" in Les Veg. 



Utiles de l'Afrique Trop. Franc, fasc. iii. Chevalier, Perrot et Gerard, 



pp. 127-130 (Challamel, Paris, 1907). "Tamarindus indica,'" in 



Comm. Prod. India, Watt, pp. 1066-1067. 



Baikiaea, Bentn. 



Baikiaea insignis, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 309. 



III. — Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. t. 41 ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflan. iii. pt. 3, 

 f. 102E. 



Upper Guinea. 



A handsome decorative tree. The flowers are 10 in. across 

 when fully expanded, and the largest produced by any legu- 

 minous plant ; they are very fugitive, lasting only for one night. A 



