liS HORTUS JAMAICCNSIS. eAsnfew 



The pods and seeds qf the casbaw ave greedilj- eaten by cnttle and horses, especiaHy 

 in dry weather. If the latter, however, have access to water they will drink heartily, 

 and it proves fatal to them. The moisture arouses the vegetation, and the seeds svveii 

 and put forth shoots even in the animals stomach. This is not the case with cuttle, and 

 is, in all prjbabiiity, prevented by the second mastication. 



See Cagook East India Ebony GfM-ARABic Inga Tree- Nephritic -Tree- 

 sensitive Plant Wild TAMAill^I>. 



' CASHEW, ANACARDIUM. 



Cl. 23, OR. 1. Pulj/gamia monoccia. Nat. ow.lloloracece. 



Tbis generic name is derived from two Greek words, signifying without a heart,' fce- 

 <c&use the fruit, instead of liaving the seed inclosed, has the nut <^rowiug at the end. 



Oen. char. Calyx of the hermaphrodite flowx^r is a five-leaved perianth ; leaflets 

 cvate, concave, coloured, erect, deciduous : corolla rive petalletl ; petals lance- 

 olate, acute, three times as long as the calyx, uprisi;iit at bottom, ledi^.x at the 

 end; the stamens are ten filaments, imited at tlie base, iiprigiit ; tune of them 

 capillary, shorter than the calyx ; one tliicker, double the ieiigth of the others, 

 lying on the germ in front; aathers roundish, iu the longer hiamei'.t large and 

 fertile, in the rest small ; the pistil has a gemi kidney-swapcd, ubliquely'emur- 

 ginate in front ; style subulate, bent in, the length of the corolla ; stigma small, 

 roundish, depressed, cancave ; tnere is no pericarp ;. the receptacle is very large, 

 ob-ovate ; ihe^eed is a kidnej^-sbajied nut, large, at the top of the receptacle ; 

 with a thick shell, cellular within, and abounduigvvith oil. The male flowers are 

 either mixed with the hermaphrodites, or on a distinct tree ; their calyx, corolla, 

 and stamina, as in the hfcrmaplirodites ; the pistil has no germ, or it is abortive. 

 Obs. This trte was origuualij placed i7i the tenth class ; if was removed by Lin- 

 neus to the ninth, and is note placed in the twenty-third, fromthe- observations ^/ 

 , JiottboelL There is but one species, a native of Jamaica. 



* occidentale. : ivestern. 



Pomifera, scu pctitis prunifera Indica^vuce renifm^yni summo poynmo 

 . inascente, cajous dicta. Sloane, v. 2, p. 136. Fructu obverse ovatOf 

 jiuce reniJorTiii, racemis terminalibus. Browne, p. 226. 



This tree, in favourable situations, grows to the height of twenty feet or more. The 

 root is large and brachiated, die tree spreading and very ramose. The leaves stand 

 very thick on the branches, and are of an oval form, smooth, tough, and shining, pe- 

 tioll'd, scattered alternately. The flowers are small, and grow in a kind of umbei-form 

 at tlie tops of the branches, are of a dirty red colour, they are numerous, and have a 

 sweet smell. The truit is sometimes reddish, and sometimes yellow, or streaked, which 

 : Browne took to be owing to some difference in the soil or cuitnre, which is not the 

 case, for A. Robinson obsen-es that, upon planting the stones, the trees proceeding 

 irom the nut of the yellow fruit bear yellow, and iiotcedj aaAvice versa. He also men- 

 siini having seen & t^ee bearing double nuts. 



