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37. LEGUMINOS^. 



[TamarhtduSt 



36. TAMARINDUS, Linn. 



Tree. Leaves abruptly pinnate^ stipules caducous. Flowers 

 racemed. Calyx-tube turbinate, divisions 4, membranous. Petals 3. 

 Stamens monadelphous, 3 perfect, united in a sbeath ; remaining- 

 stamens reduced to statninodes at top of the sheath. Ovary many- 

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

 capitate. Pod 3-10-seeded, mesocarp fleshy, seeds exalbuminous. 



T. indiea, Linn. DC. Prod. II. 488; Fl. Br. 1. 2. 273 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 82 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 184, ; Brandis For. Fl. 163. The Tama- 

 rind. Hunase, K. ; Ohinch, M. ; Amli, Yern. 



Throughout India and the Tropics generally. Self-sown near villages 

 and in waste lands ; also cultivated throughout the presidency, probably 

 indigenous in tropical Africa. Fl. May- June. Fr. ripe Feb.-Mch. 

 Heartwood dark purplish- brown, extremely hard, heavy and durable. 

 Pores moderate-sized, single or in groups surrounded by rings of light 

 coloured tissue sometimes confluent. Med. rays very fine, numerous, 

 distinct. Weighs nearly 80 lbs. to the cub. ft. Used for wheels, 

 furniture, rice-pounders, &c. Very difficult to work. Fruit is laxative. 

 The leaves are used in curries. The ground seeds mixed with gum furnish 

 a strong cement. 



37. BAUHINIA, Linn. 



Trees, shrubs or climbers with circinate tendrils. Leaves simple, 

 cleft at tip into two more or less connate leaflets. Flowers showy, in 

 paniculate recemes. Calyx-tube short, limb spafchaceous or 2-5 cleft. 

 Petals 5, sub-equal, usually clawed. Stamens 10, 3-5 or all perfect. 

 Ovary stalked, many ovuled ; style long or short, stigma small or 

 large and peltate. Pod linear, indehiscent or S-valved^ seeds albu- 

 minous. 



Trees. Perfect stamens 10, 



Calyx spatbaceous or 5-cleft. Pod glabrous or 

 tomentose. 

 Pod glabrous. 



Calyx spathaceous. Pod turgid, not veined . 1. B, racemosd. 

 Calyx 5-cleft. Pod reticulate, veined ... 2, B . malabaticay 

 Pod red torn eutose, turgid ... ... ... 3. B, Laioii, 



Twining sbrubs with circinate tendrils. 



Leaflets distinct. Perfect stamens 30 4. .B. diphylla. 



Leaflets connate. Perfect stamens 3 5. B, Vahlii. 



Trees. Perfect stamens 3-5. 



Calyx 2-cleft to the base. Perfect stamens 3 .., Q. B, 'purpurea. 

 Calyx spatbaceous. Perfect stamens 5 1. B» variegata. 



1. B. racemosa. Lam. Diet. I. 390 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 82 ; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 182 ; Brandis For. Fl. 159. A^ta, M. ; Banne, K. ; Wanu 

 rajah, Vern. 



From the Punjab to Ceylon and Burma in dry forests. Throughout 

 the presidency in deciduous forests. Fl. Mch.-June. Fr. Nov.-Mch. 

 Wood light-brown, hard, with an irregularly shaped darker and harder 



