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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

1) Indian almond in English is the name of a plant defined with Sterculia foetida in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Clompanus molucanus Raf. (among others).

2) Indian almond is also identified with Terminalia catappa It has the synonym Badamia commersonii Gaertn. (etc.).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)
· Novae Plantarum Species praesertim Indiae Orientalis (1821)
· Journal of Cytology and Genetics (1973)
· Prodr. (Swartz) (1788)
· Feddes Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis (1926)
· Sylva Telluriana (1838)

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