. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE TAMARIND. 863 CHAP. XXXVII. TROPICAL FRXHTS. The Tamaeind, C Tamarindm Indica). Nat. ord. Leguminosoe, Linn. MonodelpUa f^W© The Taraariud. The name is of Arabic origin, Tamar- This tree is a native of Arabia and Egypt, and of the East and West Indies. It is a large, spreading, and beautiful tree; the leaves are abruptly pin
. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE TAMARIND. 863 CHAP. XXXVII. TROPICAL FRXHTS. The Tamaeind, C Tamarindm Indica). Nat. ord. Leguminosoe, Linn. MonodelpUa f^W© The Taraariud. The name is of Arabic origin, Tamar- This tree is a native of Arabia and Egypt, and of the East and West Indies. It is a large, spreading, and beautiful tree; the leaves are abruptly pinnate, composed of sixteen or eigh- teen pairs of sessile leaflets; half an inch only in length, and one-sixth of an inch broad; of a bright green colour, downy, oblong, entire, and obtuse. The flowers are in loose bunches of five or six, which come out from the sides of the branches: the calyx is of a straw yellow colour, and deciduous; the petals are also yellowish, and beautifully variegated with red veins : the fila- ments are purplish, bearing incumbent brownish anthers. The pods are thick, compressed, and of a duU brown colour when ripe; those from the West Indies from two to five inches long, with two, three, or four seeds; those from the East Indies are twice as long, and contain five, six, or seven seeds: the seeds in both are flat, angular, shining, and lodged in a dark pulpy matter, which is the edible part of the fruit. In the West Indies the pods are gathered in June, July, and August, when fully ripe; and the fruit being freed from the shelly fragments is placed in layers in a cask, and boiling syrup poured over it till the cask is filled; thus the syrup per- vades every part quite down to the bottom; when cool the cask is headed or closed in, and is now fit for sale. The East India tamarinds are darker coloured, and drier, and are said to be preserved without any addition of syrup. Ta- marinds are inodorous, but they have a sharp, penetrating, and agreeable acid
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