Tamarind

Tamarindus indica L. Sp. PI. 34. 1753
Tamarindns occidentalis Gaertn. Fnict. 2: 310. 1791. Tamarindus officinalis Hook. Bot. Mag. pi. 4563. 1851.
A large tree, sometimes 20 m. high or higher, with a trunk up to 1.5 m. thick, the bark brown, rough, the branches widely spreading, the young twigs slender, puberulent. Leaves 6-12 cm. long, short-petioled, glabrous or nearly so; leaflets 10-18 pairs, thin, reticulateveined, oblong, 12-25 mm. long, rounded or retuse at the apex, obliquely obtuse or subtruncate at the base; racemes few-several-flowered, mostly terminal and shorter than the leaves; pedicels slender, 6-10 mm. long; calyx 8-10 mm. long; larger petals a little longer than the sepals; stamens a little longer than the petals; legume 5-15 cm. long, about 2 cm. thick, the epicarp brown, scaly, the flesh acid, the brown, shining seeds about 1 cm. broad.
Type locality: India.
Distribution: Florida; West Indies; continental tropical America. Native of India.