CASHEW-NUT. 
ENNEANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Calyx of five oval sharp-pointed divisions. 
Corolla of five linear-lanceolate petals, about twice the 
length of the calyx. 
Seed a kidney-shaped nut, situated at the apex of a large 
fleshy body of a pyriform figure. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Anacardium occidentale. Anacardium. Linn. Spec. Plant. 
Willd. 2. p. 486. 
Pomifera, sive potius Prunifera 
indica, nuce reniformi. Catesb. 
Carol. 3. p.9. pi. 9. 
Acajou. Pis. Bras. 38. 
Cassuvium. Rumph. Amb. 1. 
p. 177. pi. 69. 
Cuschon. Mer. Sirin. Id. pi. 16. 
Kapa-mava. Rheed. Mai . 3. 
p. 65. pi. 54. 
Cashew-Nut. ..... Jacq. Amer. 124. pi. 181. f, 35. 
Blackw. pi. 369. 
This is the only species of the genus as yet known 
to botanists, at least the only one acknowledged in 
the Linnsean arrangement; for Lamarck refers us to 
