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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, balsamiferous, or gummiferous ; 
flowers small, generally panicled. 
I. Anacardium. Cashew. 
Polygamo-dicecious. 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 ; cotyledons thick, semilu- 
nated ; radicle exserted. 
Trees, with leaves entire and penni-nerved, and with panicles 
terminal. — Name, from ava without , and xuobia heart. 
1. Anacardium occidentale. TF'est-India Cashew. 
Leaves oval very obtuse subemarginate slightly 
narrowed at the base with the length slightly exceed- 
ing the breadth. 
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Broicne, Jam. 226. — Acajuba, Geertn. de Fract. I. 192. t. 40. 
. — Anacardium occidentale, Jacq. Arner. 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- 
