The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . Tjuf^an ^/jT, TemiuuilJa cnl-appn Jiudaifucr de -JYa/aicir. INDIAN ALMOND. Natural Order, Combretace^, (R. Brown.) Linnoean Classificcv-tion, Decandria, Monogynia. TERMINALIA. (Linn. Decand.) Flowers often polygamous from abortion.—Border of the cali/x deci-duous, campanulate, 5-cleft, tlie divisions acute.
The North American sylva; or, A description of the forest trees of the United States, Canada and Nova ScotiaConsidered particularly with respect to their use in the arts and their introduction into commerceTo which is added a description of the most useful of the European forest trees .. . Tjuf^an ^/jT, TemiuuilJa cnl-appn Jiudaifucr de -JYa/aicir. INDIAN ALMOND. Natural Order, Combretace^, (R. Brown.) Linnoean Classificcv-tion, Decandria, Monogynia. TERMINALIA. (Linn. Decand.) Flowers often polygamous from abortion.—Border of the cali/x deci-duous, campanulate, 5-cleft, tlie divisions acute. Petals ten, in a double row, longer than the calyx. Ovary withtwo or three ovules. Style filiform, somewhat acute. Drvjje notcrowned by the calyx, often dry, indehisceut, 1-seeded. The seedresembling an almond. Cotyledons spirally convolute. Trees of the largest size or shrubs, with alternate or rarely oppositeleaves, crowded toward the extremities of the branches, and hencethe generic name. Flowers in spikes; the spikes in racemes orpanicles, bisexual in the lower part, and male in the upper. § I. Catappa, (Gsertner.) The drupe corn])ressed, with the marginwinged or much attenuated. CATAPPA, OR INDIAN ALMOND. Terminalia catappa. Foliis ohovaiis basi attenuatis subt
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