T^MARiNDUs] LEaUM^NOS^. 301 



oream and purple. Fertile stamens usually 5. Ovary long-stalkorl, 

 style long, stigma minute. Fod 6-12 in. long, and |-f in. wide, hard, flat, 

 glabrous, rather decurved, dehiscjent. Seeds 10-15. 



I'orests of Dehra Dun and of the Siwalik range, Eohilkhand, Oudh and 

 Bundelkhand. Distrib. Outer ranges of the Himalaya up to 4,000 ft., 

 and throughout India and in Burma ; also in China. Flowers February 

 to April before the new foliage appears. It is cultivated in gardens. 

 The flower-buds are eaten as a vegetable and the tree yields other 

 economic products similar to those of B. 'purpurea. 



B, acuminata, Linn. »Sp. Fl. 376; Boxh. ; Fl. Ind. ii, 324; W. ^ A. 

 Prod. 295 ; Brand. For. Fl. 159 ; F. B. 1. ii, 276 ; Watt E. D.— An erect 

 shrub with large white flowers, often met with in gardens within the 

 area. It is found wild in Bengal, Burma, the Andamans, Malay Penins. 

 and Islands and in China. It is included in the same section to which 

 B. tomentosa belongs. 



60. TAMARINDUS, Linn.; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii, 273. 



A spineless tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Flowers racemed. 

 Calyx-tube turbinate ; disk produced some distance above its base ; 

 teeth lanceolate, much imbricated, the two lowest connate. Petals 

 only the three upper developed, the two lateral ovate, the upper hooded, 

 the two lower reduced to scales. Stamens monadelphous, ouly 3 

 developed, the others reduced to mere bristles at the top of the sheath ; 

 anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary mai)y- 

 ovuled, with a stalk adnate to the calyx-tube; style filiform, stigma 

 capitate. Pod linear-oblong, many-seeded, with a thin crustaceous 

 epioarp and thick pulpy mesocarp. Seeds exalbuminous. — A single 

 species, planted everywhere in the tropics, and probably a native of 

 Trop. Africa. 



T. indica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. Hi, 215 ; W. ^ A. Prod. 285 ; D. ^ G, 

 Bomb. Fl. 82; Brand. For. Fl. 163; F. B. T. ii, 273; Watt E. D.—Yern. 

 Imli, amli. (Tamarind). 



A large handsome tree, SO ft. or more in height. Leaves 3-fi in. long ; 

 leaflets 10-20 pairs, oblong, obtuse, glabrescent. Flowers few together. 

 in copious lax racemes at the end of short lateral branchlets ; 'pedicels 

 jointed at the base of the calyx ; hrads boat-shaped, inclosiug the bucs, 

 caducous. Petals less than ^ in. long, yellow striped with red. Pod 

 3-S in. long and about 1 in. broad, usually falcate, indehiscent. Seeds 

 many, compressed, I in. in diam., dark-brown and shining. 



Planted in many parts of the area for the sake of its fruit, also as an 

 ornamental trea in gardens. It has become naturalized in many places ; 

 and, when met with in the midst of forests on the sites of deserted 

 villages, it often has all the appearance of an indigenous tree. For_ an 

 account of its many useful properties Dr. Watt's Dictionary article 

 should be consulted. 



