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obtained the original Anacardium of the East, and, finding 
some slight difference in the number of the sexual parts^ 
made it a distinct genus ; while, in place of reserving for 
this the name Anacardium given to it by the earliest bota- 
nical writers, he called it Semecarpus. Although this no- 
menclature is adhered to by Willdenow (Sp. PI. i. 1476, 
et ii. 486), and many other most eminent botanists ; yet, if 
the plants arc to be considered as belonging to different 
genera, I must prefer the nomenclature adopted by La- 
marck, followed by Jussieu and other French writers, who 
have restored the name of Rumphius to the Anacardii alia 
species of Bauhin, and the name Anacardium to the plant 
original!}^ so called. As, however, I consider that both 
plants belong in fact to the same genus, I w^ould call the 
former Anacardium cassuvltmn, and the latter Anacardium 
semecarpus. 
Caput LX. 
Cassiivium silvestre, p. 179? t. 70. 
Willdenow does not quote this plant ; but in the Ency- 
clopedic (i. 140) it is considered as a variety of the Ana- 
cardium longifolium^ which Willdenow calls Semecarpus 
anacardium (Sp. PI. ii. 1476). Dr Roxburgh, on the con- 
trary (Hort. Beng. 22), having procured plants from the 
Moluccas, considered it as a distinct species, which he called 
Semecarpus cassuvium ; nor, indeed, did Rumphius sup- 
pose that his plant was the Anacardium of the shops, the 
nuts differing very considerably, in shape at least, being 
reniform in the Cassuvium silvestre^ while in the Anacar- 
dium 07'ientale they are ovate, with a slight notch, on one 
side, under the point, which is oblique. 
In India there is still another species very nearly allied 
to the Anacardium orientale, and in fact confounded with 
it by the natives under the common name Bhela of the 
