430 DECANDRiA MONOGYNIA. Terminalia. 



pure white, the hermaphrodite ones are near the base of 

 the raceme ; the male ones farther in. Cafyx salver-shap- 

 ed (spreading- flat without any tube.) 5'famens alternate- 

 ly short, and incurved. 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, w hich 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. Rumpli. Amb. i.t.QH. 



Beng. Bwdam. 



Adamarara. Rheed. Mai. 4. ^3. 4. 



Badamia. Comniersoni Gtert. sem. l.t.97. 



Juglans Catappa Lourier. Cochin Ch. 703. 



A most beautiful, large tree, found in gardens, &c. 

 near towns and villages, where indigenous, I have not 

 been able to ascertain. On the Coromaudel coast it is in 

 flower and fruit almost the whole year. 



Trunk straight ; branches verticelled, spreading horizon- 

 tally like the difierent stages of that kind of compound 

 table, called a dumb-waiter. Branchlets alternate, bi- 

 farious. Bark smooth, of a dark olive colour while young. 

 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 on 

 each side of the nerve near the base on the back, from six 

 to twelve inches long. Racemes axillary, solitary, simple, 



