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equal in number and alternating with the sepals ; 

 aestivation imbricated or valvular. Stamens either 

 equal in number and then alternating with, or double 

 that of the petals, arising with them from the base or 

 disk of the calyx, or rarely from the torus surround- 

 ing the base of the ovary. Ovary sessile or seated on 

 a thickened disk. Fruit capsular or berried. Seeds 

 few, in general solitary and exalbuminous : embryo 

 straight, curved, arched, or replicate : cotyledons vari- 

 ous ; radicle in general superior. 



Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, without stipules, generally 

 compound ; bark resinous, balsam iferous, or gummiferous ; 

 flowers small, generally panicled. 



I. ANACARDIUM. Cashew. 



Polygamo-dioecious. Calyx 5-partite. Petals 5, 

 linear, acuminate. Stamens 10, unequal in length, 

 with one twice the length of the rest, having the an- 

 ther barren (or none?). Style and stigma 1. Nut 

 reniform, laterally umbilicated, placed on an enlarged 

 pear-shaped fleshy pedicel : seed of the same shape 

 as the nut ; embryo erect j cotyledons thick, semilu- 

 nated ; radicle exserted. 



Trees, with leaves entire and penni-nerved, and with panicles 

 terminal. Name, from ava. without, and xagdta heart. 



1. Anacardium occidentale. West-India Cashew. 



Leaves oval very obtuse subemarginate slightly 

 narrowed at the base with the length slightly exceed- 

 ing the breadth. 



Browne, Jam. 226. Acajuba, Gcertn. de Fruct. I. 192. t. 40. 

 Anacardium occidentale, Jacq. Amer. 124. t. 181. f. 35. De 

 Cand. Prod. II. 62. 



HAB. Common in the plains. 



FL. After the rains during summer. 



A spreading tree, 15-20 feet in height. Leaves at the ends 

 of the branchlets, alternate, petiolate, oval, subovate, rounded 

 and subemarginate at the apex, slightly narrower towards the 

 base, entire, penni-nerved, coriaceous, glabrous. Panicle termi- 

 nal, corymbose : common peduncle and its branches compressed 

 and angulose, furnished at the divisions with an ovate acumi- 



