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CALYCI FLOR ,E. 
I. Terminalia Catappa, St. Helena Almond. 
Leaves elongato — obovate in the adult subglab- 
rous (t’errugineo — j)ti!>escent on the under surface 
in the young leaves), an obscure glandule on each 
side of the niid-nb towards the base, drupe com- 
pressed. 
Amygdalus Indica, Ran Hist. 1521. — Terminalia Ca- 
tappa, Jacq . Ic. Rar. t. 197. — Hooker , Rot. Mag. t. 3004. 
II A B. Cultivated. Common. 
F L. June — August. 
A Tree, 30-50 feet in height. Leaves G-12 inches long, 
with the margin thickened, and involuted beneath towards 
the base, and in the young leaves provided with minute 
brown glandular decidu- us teeth. Disk of the calyx in- 
ternally vihous, persistent. Stamens ; 5 of them opposite 
to the calycine lobes, with their insertion low in the 
calyx ; the 5 in the indentations with their insertion 
higher, and hence they are apparently longer : filaments 
white, glabrous; anthers ovate, yellow. Ovary villous. 
Fruit about 2 inches in length, ovali orbiculute, com- 
pressed, almost winged at the edges. 
According to Sir William Hooker’s observations on a 
flowering specimen obtained from the Liverpool Botanic 
Garden, the leaves are, especially on the under surface, 
pubesc.enti-tomentose. This may be ascribed to the cir- 
cumstance of their having been produced in a close Hot- 
house, where the downy covering, which is deciduous, 
would be much longer retained, than in the open air ex- 
posed to the breeze and the rain 
This Tree is a native of the East Indies, the Isle of 
France, &c. It was introduced into this Island from <St. 
Helena, in H. M. S. Providence, 1793, and is now very 
eommon. The fruit, from the hardness of the shell, is 
scarcely ever made use of. We are informed however, 
that it is served up at the first tables in India, and that the 
Natives, obt lin an expressed oil, and make an emulsion 
from ‘he kernels, and emp’oy an infusion of the leaves 
as a remedy in cholic. The taste of the fruit resembles 
that of the sweet almond. The wood is white and hard. 
The tree itself is ve y ornamental; the stem erect, and 
the branches spreading horizontally. It has a very re- 
markable and beuuliiul appearance previous to shedding 
