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Cotyledons. — Glossy white ; sometimes cream-coloured ; thick, 

 softly fleshy, with a plano-convex exterior, and a deeply grooved 

 interior ; distinctly kidney-shaped, answering the shape of the pericarp 

 generally. 



Radicle. — Short ; exserted ; hooked, or *' incurved and inferior," as 

 Baillon describes it. I think Wight and Arnott describe it more 

 accurately when they say it is curved upwards from the base of the 

 cotyledons. 



Albumen. — None. 



Embryo. — Having the form of the seed ; erect, milky- white ; Plumule 

 minute, milky-white. 



REMARKS. 



The following are the synonyms of the plant :— 



1. Acajuha occidentalis (Gaertner De Fructibns, vol. i, pp. 192- 

 19S). 



2. Cassuvimn pomiferum Lam (Rheede Mai. iii, t. 54.) {Rumphius 

 Amb. i, p, 177 ; t. 69). 



3. Acajou — South America. 



The species known as Anacardium indicum and referred to in -Johnson's 

 Gardener's Dictionary recently edited by Wight and Dewar (1894), 

 evidently from DeCandolle's " Prodromus" * is not different from the 

 Anacardium occidentale in any way. Paxtonf also mentions a separate 

 Indian species under the same name, viz, Anacardium Indicum. From 

 the description given by the elder DeCandolle, there does not seem 

 to be much difference between the true original American species 

 described as Anacardium occidentale, and the naturalized oriental plant 

 separately described as Anacardium Indicum. This will be fully 

 explained in detail later on. That the two species separately described 

 by the elder DeCandolle are one and the same has been amply proved 

 by the younger DeCandolle, as will be seen from the latest work of 

 the latter, issued in connection with the " International Scientific 

 Series " under the auspices of Messrs. Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 

 entitled '' Origin of Cultivated Plants" (1884). In this rich mine of 

 botanic lore, the following are his mature and deliberate opinions 



* Prodromus 8yet. Nat. Re^ni Vegetabili, Pt. II, p. 62. 



t Botanical Dictionary, p. 31, 1868, p. 31. New Edition by Samuel Hereman. 



