430 “‘DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Terminalia, 
pure white, the hermaphrodite ones are near the base of 
the raceme ; the male ones farther in. Ca/yx salver-shap- 
ed (spreading flat without any tube.) Stamens alternate- 
ly short, andincurved. Germ inferior, one-celled, con- 
taining two ovula, pendulous from the top of the cell. 
Drupe oblong, obscurely five-sided, but not in the least 
compressed, as in T. Catappa, which in most respects 
this species resembles very exactly, when ripe yellow. 
Pulp in large quantities, of a lively red colour and plea- 
sant subacid taste. Nut in shape exactly like the drupe, 
but the five sides are better defined. Embryo with the 
thin cotyledons wrapped spirally round each other and 
the superior radicle. 
2. T. Catappa. Willd. 4. 967. 
Branches horizontal, verticelled. Leaves obovate. 
Racemes axillary. Drupe and nut compressed. 
Catappa. Rumph. Amb. 1. t. 68. 
Beng. Budam, ~ 
Adamaram. Rheed. Mal. 4. t.3. 4. 
Badamia. Commersoni Gert. sem. 1. t.97. 
Juglans Catappa Lourier. Cochin Ch. 703. 
A most beautiful, large tree, found in gardens, X¢- 
near towns and villages, where indigenous, I have not 
been able to ascertain. On the Coromandel coast it isin 
flower and fruit almost the whole year. 
Trunk straight ; branches verticelled, spreading horizon- 
tally like the different stages of that kind of compound — 
table, called a dumb-waiter. Branchlets alternate, bi- 
farious. Bark smooth, of a dark olive colour while youas- 
Leaves about the extremities of the branchlets, subses- 
sile, horizontal between obovate, and wedge form ; mar- 
gins a little scolloped ; apex rounded, with a small ob- 
tuse point, smooth on both sides, having a large gland 00 
each side of the nerve near the base on the back, from six 
to twelve inches long. Racemes axillary, solitary, simple, 
