. The natural history of plants. Botany. 100 NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. is traversed by ramified woody fibro-vascular bundles. The endocarp is like parchment or more or less leathery, and forms as many com- pletely closed chambers as there are seeds, each chamber separating easily from its neighbours through the double transverse false dis- Tamtcurmiiis Fio. 73. Habit (i). sepiments. The descending compressed obovate seeds contain within their coriaceous coats a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, whose short superior radicle is completely surrounded by the auricled bases of the cotyledons. O
. The natural history of plants. Botany. 100 NATURAL HISTOBY OF PLANTS. is traversed by ramified woody fibro-vascular bundles. The endocarp is like parchment or more or less leathery, and forms as many com- pletely closed chambers as there are seeds, each chamber separating easily from its neighbours through the double transverse false dis- Tamtcurmiiis Fio. 73. Habit (i). sepiments. The descending compressed obovate seeds contain within their coriaceous coats a fleshy exalbuminous embryo, whose short superior radicle is completely surrounded by the auricled bases of the cotyledons. Only one species' of Tamarind tree is known, a native of tropical Asia or Africa, which has been transported into all warm countries ; it is an unarmed tree, whose alternate paripin- ' T. indiea L., Spec, 48.—Rheed., Sort. loc. cit., n. 2.—Jacq., Amer., 10, t. 10, 179.— Malab., ]. t. 23.—', Serb. Amboin., ii. t. T. officinalis Hook., in Sot. itfay., t. 4563.— 23.—DC, Mem. Ligvm., ii. t. 24, fig. 113.— MiQ., M. , i. p. i. 82.—^Walp., Arm., T. occidentalis GiEETN., loc. cit.—DC, Prodr., iv. 595.—Omt., Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Baillon, Henri Ernest, 1827-1895; Hartog, Marcus Manuel, 1851-. London, L. Reeve & Co.
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