Dear Mr. Stephen, Sorry for the late reply, I had been out in the himalaya for field work for some time and couldnt check mails.
http://answers.yahoo.com amuse me a lot and I dont know how much anyone can rely upon it. A simple look on wikipedia could have been of more help. Thanks a lot Vijay for the short info of Tamarind Island. There must be hundreds of places of which you find no mention on yahoo answers or any other answers. Linnaeus never gave the origin of names in any of his book and so most of the informations were either a part of some research or just speculations. Infact for this plant Linnaeus wrote Habitat in India, AMERICA, Egypt and Arabia. Secondly this plant was described by Linneaus himself before species plantarum in Hortus Cliffortianus in 1838 and Flora Zeylanica in 1747. Regards Pankaj Regards Pankaj
