CATAPPA, OR INDIAN ALMOND. 
Ill 
the leaves; drupe oval, compressed, glabrous, with elevated 
navicular margins, convex on both sides. Arnot, Prodr. Ind. 
Orient., vol. 1. p. 313. Jacquin’s Ic. rar., vol. 1. tab. 197. 
Lam. Illust. tab. 848. fig. 1 . Adamarum , Rheed, Flora 
Malabarica, vol. 4. tab. 3 and 4. Torrey and Gray, Flor. N. 
Amer., vol. 1. p. 4S5. 
According to Torrey and Gray, Dr. Hasler has dis- 
covered this splendid tree in Southern Florida. A 
variety of it is known to exist in the Caribbean Islands, 
which Humboldt and Kunth imagined to be introduced, 
but for this supposition there is probably no sufficient 
ground, as Poiteau collected it in the forests of St. Do- 
mingo, of which I have a specimen now before me. A 
near congener, if not the same thing, was found in 
Guiana by Aublet, his Tanibouca ; yet the favourite re- 
gion of its existence is in the tropical forests of India, 
on the sandy and gravelly coasts of Malabar, and in the 
island of Java; it there becomes, according to Rheed, 
a very large and splendid tree of a pyramidal form, like 
that of a lofty spruce, the leafy summit being composed 
of almost horizontal branches disposed in circular 
stages. Its wood is white, very hard, covered with a 
smooth grey bark which is red within. The leaves, 
situated near to the extremities of the branchlets, 
6 or 7 together, at intervals, form circular clusters of 
great regularity; they are about 6 to 9 inches long, by 
3 to 5 wide, of an inversely ovoid or cuneate oval 
figure, widening towards the summit, where they be- 
come almost round, with a short, abrupt, slanting point 
in the centre, narrowed and somewhat cordate at the 
base, nearly entire, or obscurely, though sometimes very 
distinctly crenulated on the border, green and smooth 
above, slightly pubescent beneath; the young leaves and 
shoots as well as the petioles, clothed with a brown and 
close tomentum. The flowers are small, without scent, 
of a whitish-green, and disposed in great numbers in 
