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# Tamarindus indica , Linn. ; IK\ Prod. ii. 488, of which the native 
country is not clearly known, is often seen in Mauritius and Rodriguez 
in a half- wild condition. It is a tree with short-stalked abruptly pinnate 
leaves with 10-20 pairs of crowded firm reticulated articulated leaflets, 
copious flowers in lax terminal racemes with pedicels jointed at the 
top, calyx split down nearly to the base into imbricated oblanceolate 
teeth, petals only 3 developed the uppermost hooded, stamens mona- 
delphous only 3 bearing anthers and a curved ligulate 3-10-seeded 
pod foot long with a thin crustaceous epicarp and a thick pulpy 
stringy edible mesocarp. T. occidentalism Gaertn., and T. officinalis , 
Hook. Bot. Mag. tab. 4363, are the same species. Tamarinier. 
# Entada scandens, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. 1842, 332 (Mimosa 
scandens, Linn. ; Entada Pursaetha, DC. Prod. ii. 425), spread round 
the world in the tropics, is established in Mauritius near the sea at 
La Savanne, and in ravines round the Baie du Cap. It is a large 
glabrous woody climber, with slender terete branches, bipinnate leaves 
with rachis ending in a tendril, 3-4-jugate oblong firm large leaflets, 
polygamous minute flowers in slender peduncled axillary spikes nearly 
a foot long, a minute campanulate 5-toothed calyx, 5 equal narrow 
spreading petals, 10 free slightly exserted stamens, and a flat curved 
woody pod 1-2 feet Jong, composed of many discoid deltoid one- 
seeded joints, the endocarp of which persists round the large flat 
discoid seeds. Diane sabre. 
# Adenanthera pavonina, Linn. ; DC. Prod. ii. 446, widely spread in 
Tropical Asia, is common in the Seychelles, where the timber i^ used 
for houses, but is not clearly indigenous. It is an erect unarmed 
tree, with large bipinnate leaves, 4-6-jugate pinnae, 6-9-jugate oblong 
obtuse glabrous membranous leaflets f- If in. long, minute yellow 
flowers in spike-like mostly axillary racemes, 10 free stamens, a 
strap-shaped torulose coriaceous pod 6-9 inches long, with 10-12 
bright scarlet seeds and a dry glossy endocarp. Bois noir a la graine. 
Bois noir de Bourbon. 
23. GAGNEBINA, Heck. 
Calyx campanulate, 5-toothed. Petals 3-4 times as long as the calyx, 
5, equal, lingulate, valvate. Stamens 10, free, much exserted; filaments 
filiform ; anthers crowned with a gland. Ovary short-stalked ; ovules 
numerous ; style long, filiform ; stigma capitate. Pod flat, firm, oblong, 
indehiscent, with a broad firm wing to each suture, septate between the 
seeds. Monotypic. 
1. G. tamariscina, DC. Prod. ii. 432. A much-branched shrub, 
6-12 feet high, with wrinkled brown bark, and rather hairy branchlets. 
Leaves abruptly bipinnate, 3-6 in. long ; petiole jointed at the base, 
square, with a large discoid gland below the pinnae, and a smaller one 
between each pair ; pinnae 10-20-jugate, 1-2 in. long; leaflets 30-50- 
