Cola
(its native name). ORD. Sterculiaceae. A stove evergreen tree, requiring a rich, light, loamy soil. Increased by seeds (which are about the size of a pigeon's egg); also by ripened cuttings, placed in sand, under a hand glass, in bottom heat.
C. acuminata (pointed). Cola or Goora Nut. fl. yellow, numerously disposed in axillary corymbose racemes. January. l. coriaceous, oblong-ovate, acuminated. Tropical Africa, 1868. The seeds are universally used as a condiment by the negroes of West tropical Africa and the West Indies. They are also employed in medicine, and to render putrid water wholesome. (B. M. 5699.)