30 The Ufeful Family Herbal. | 
The West-Inpra-Bean, or Casu EW 
NutT-TREE. 2 
ARBOR ACAJOU VULGO CAJOU. 
TE appears by the Defcription of the Anacar- 
~ dium how very improperly it is called a Nut — 
for it is the Kernel of a large Fruit, though — 
growing in a fingular Manner. The Cafe is jut — 
the fame with Refpeét to the Cafhew Nut, for it 
is neither a Nut nor a Bean, any more than the — 
other: But it is neceflary to keep tothe common | 
Names, and it is proper they fhould be mentioned — 
together. a 
The Tree which produces it is large and fpread- _ 
ings the Bark is of a pale Colour, rough and — 
cracked, and the Wood is brittle. The Leaves 
are half a Foot long, and two or three Inches 
- broad, blunt at the End, and of a fine green 
Colour. The Flowers are {mall, but they grow 
in Tufts together. The Fruit is of the Bignefs 
_ and Shape of a Pear, and of an Orange and Pur- 
ple Colour mixt together;. the Cafhew Nut © 
Bean, as it is called, hangs naked from the 
Bottom of this Fruit. It is of the Bignefs of a 
Garden-Bean, and indented in the Manner of +5 
Kidney ; it is of a * 
8 fhelly Covering, and a fine white flethy Sub- 
Oil, which ferves in the fame Manner as the other 
to take off ee St it muft be ufed with — 
great Caution. It aétually " 
it muft be fuffered to lie 
_. and, even when ufed ever fo cautioufly, it fome-— 
<2 fimes. caufes:Mifchief, “© "So - 
