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INDIAN ALMOND. 
Natural Order , Combretace,®, (R. Brown.) Linncean 
Classification , Decandria, Monogynia. 
TERMINALIA, (Linn. Decand.) 
Flowers often polygamous from abortion. — Border of the calyx 
deciduous, campanulate, 5-cleft, the divisions acute. Petals 
none. Stamens 10, in a double row, longer than the calyx. 
Ovary with 2 or 3 ovules. Style filiform, somewhat acute. 
Drupe not crowned by the calyx, often dry, indehiscent, 1- 
seeded. The seed resembling an almond. Cotyledones spi- 
rally convolute. 
Trees of the largest size or shrubs, with alternate or rarely 
opposite leaves, crowded towards the extremities of the branches, 
and hence the generic name. Flowers in spikes, the spikes in 
racemes or panicles, bisexual in the lower part, and male in the 
upper. 
§ I. Catappa, (Gsertner.) The drupe compressed , with the 
margin winged or much attenuated . 
CATAPPA, or INDIAN ALMOND. 
TERMINALIA catappa, foliis obovatis basi attenuatis sub- 
tus molliter pubescentibus , glandulis minimis subtus in 
basi folii ad latus nervi medii . — Decand. Prod., vol. 3. p. 
11. Linn. Mantis, p. 519. 
Terminalia catappa, leaves about the extremities of the 
branchlets on short petioles, obovate, cuneate and attenuated, 
at the same time slightly cordate at the base, a little repand, 
with a large depressed gland beneath on each side the midrib 
near the base: racemes axillary, solitary, simple, shorter than 
