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Jungli-budam, (wild almond) is the name it is known by 
amongst the Musselmans on the Peninsula, 
A tall stout tree, a native of the interior parts of the Penin- 
sula of India, In the Botanic garden it blossoms in March, 
and the seed ripens about six months afterwards, 
Trunk tall and straight. Branches verticelled, and hori- 
zontal. Bark ash-coloured, and pretty smooth, Leaves 
crowded about the ends of the branchlets, long-petioled, 
digitate, Leaflets from six to twelve, lanceolar, entire, 
smooth, They are perfectly deciduous during the cool sea- 
son in Bengal. Stipules ensiform, caducous at an early 
period. Racemes immediately under the young leaves of the 
present year, horizontal, compound, about as long as the pe- 
tioles, smooth. Flowers large, of a dull crimson and orange, 
variously blended, most of them male-hermaphrodite. Brac- 
tes very small, Calyx hypocrateriform, deeply five-cleft, 
deciduous. Segments lanceolate, villous on the inside, Co- 
dumn of the fructification long, and much curved. In the 
male-hermaphrodite its apex is more enlarged, and forms a 
campanulate receptacle for the germ, on the margin of which 
twelve or fifteen anthers sit, and in its bottom the five-lobed 
abortive germ without style or stigmas. In the fertile her- 
maphrodite it is more robust, with an acetabuliform apex, 
round its margin are about the same number of anthers. 
Germs round, very villous, five-lobed, five-celled, in each 
about from twelve to twenty seeds, attached in two vertical 
rows to the inner angle of the cell, Style curved. Stigmas 
five-lobed. Capsules, from one to five come to maturity, © 
singly about the size of a man’s fist, broad-reniform, pretty 
smooth, ligneous and fibrous, lined on the inside with a 
thick parchment-like web of waved transverse fibres ; one- 
celled, one-valved. Seeds several, from ten to fifteen, of the 
size of filberts, oblong, attached alternately to the ligneous 
margins of the follicle, hard and smooth. Perisperm none. 
Embryo inverse. Cotyledons conform to the seed, five-nerv- 
ed, thick and fleshy. Plumula two-lobed ; lobes som 
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