312 ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Anacardium, 
cular, that is with only one oblong, polleniferous pit 
on each side, as in Cassyta, this species differing from 
all [have yet met with, the rest having two pits on each 
side. Nectarial glands nine, all pedicelled ; six alter- 
nate, with the six exterior stamina, with larger, and 
more rounded heads, and three alternate with the inner 
three, and of a cordate-sagittate shape, all. yellow and 
fleshy. | Germ ovate, one-celled, with one seed attach- 
ed to the top of the cell. Style straight, length of the fila- 
ments. Stigma somewhat three-cornered. Berries ob- 
long, as thick as the largest olive and considerably long- 
er, being about two inches long, and one in diameter, 
smooth, when ripe a deep dark purple, covered with much 
whitish-grey bloom which easily rubs off. Pulp pale — 
yellow. Seed solitary, conform to the berry. Integument 
somewhat nuciform, and lined with a thin membrane, 
Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons conform 
to the seed. Plumule of two minute lobes, Radicle Bis i ; 
ish, superior. 
ANACARDI UM. Schreb. gen. n. 1582. 4g 
- Calyx five-parted. Petals five, reflexed. Germ super 
or, one-celled, one-seeded, attachment lateral. Nut ee 
form, resting on a fleshy receptacle. Embryo erect, sith ee : 
out perisperm. mit 
1. A. occidentale. Willd. 2. 486. 
Kapa mava. Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 54.— 
Cassuvium. Rumph. Amb. 1, t. 69. 
» Hind. and Beng. Hijulee-budam. — 
_ Acajuba occidentalis, Gert. sem. 1. 192. t. 40. f2 2. 
A tree common in the East and West Indies. In| | 
Lies it is found in the vicinity of the sea only, where : 
the soil i is almost ess sand. ee: time Susitt . 
