BOMBACE. 
smooth and reddish within on the lower part, but silky and 
whitish on the upper part. Filaments in pairs. This species 
comes near C. insignis. 
Large-flowered Carolinea. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 
9 C. minor (Sims, bot. mag. t. 1412.) leaflets 7, elliptical- 
oblong, acute at both ends ; calyx truncate ; petals erect. h.S. 
Native of Mexico and Guiana. C. pompàlis, Moc. et Sesse, fl. 
mex. icon. ined. Bémbax Carolinioides, Donn, cant. 156. Petals 
green. Filaments red. Anthers yellow. Pedicels longer than 
the calyx, but in the figure of the fl. mex. much shorter than 
that in the bot. mag. 
Smaller Carolinea. FI. July, Aug. Clt. 1798. Shrub 10 ft. 
10 C. campe’stris (Mart. fl. bras. 1. p. 86.) leaflets 3-5, ob- 
ovate-oblong, bluntish, smooth on both surfaces; peduncles 
equal in length to the calyx, with many glands at the base ; tube 
of stamens shorter than the calyx ; anthers erect, kidney-shaped ; 
style smooth. h.S. Native of Brazil in the province of Minas 
Geraes, in woods between Tapanhoacanga and Villa do Prin- 
cipe. Corolla reddish or olive-green outside, but greenish-white 
within. Calyx surrounded by a whorl of glands at the base. 
Field Carolinea. Fl. May. Shrub 6 to 10 feet. 
11 C. marerna‘ta; leaflets 7, inarticulated, obovate-lanceo- 
late, obtusely acuminated, marginated, reticulately veined be- 
neath and tomentose; flowers nearly a foot and a half; tube of 
stamens an inch and a half, woolly; anthers, oblong, kidney- 
shaped. h. S. Native of Brazil in the province of Minas 
Geraes, where it is called Painera do Campo by the inhabitants. 
Pachira marginata, St. Hil. fl. bras. 1. p. 6. t. 51. Peduncles 
terminal under the leaf-bud, 1-flowered. Calyx cup-shaped, trun- 
cately entire, with many glands at the base. Petals clothed with 
brownish down on the outside, and with white wool on the inside. 
Filaments red, simple, or forked, in 5 bundles. Seeds covered 
with silky wool. 
Marginate-leaved Carolinea. Fl. March. Shrub 8 feet. 
12 C. a’LBa (Lodd. bot. cab. t. 752.) h.S. Native of Brazil. 
A magnificent tree, with digitate leaves and strong-scented white 
flowers at the tops of the branches. Calyx flowing with honey. 
Filaments innumerable, 2-forked, joined into a tube at the base. 
White-flowered Carolinea. Fl. July, Aug. Clt. 1817. Tree 
20 feet. 
Cult. A genus of magnificent shrubs or trees, with splendid 
leaves and shewy flowers, well adapted for stove conservatories ; 
therefore they deserve to be generally cultivated. ‘They thrive 
best in a rich loamy soil, and large cuttings taken off at a joint, 
not deprived of their leaves, will root in sand under a hand-glass, 
in heat. 
X. BO’MBAX (from Pout, bombyx, one of the Greek 
names for cotton; the pods are filled with a fine silky substance 
like cotton, but it is impossible to spin this substance into thread 
in consequence of the edges being perfectly smooth. See Gos- 
sypium.) Lin. gen. no. 835. exclusive of many species. D. C. 
prod. 1. p. 478. 
Lin. syst. Monadélphia, Polydndria. Calyx naked, cam- 
panulate, unequally 2-5-lobed, or truncately 5-toothed. Petals 
5, joined together, and somewhat connected at the base with the 
column of the stamens. Stamens numerous, monadelphous at the 
base, but free at the apex. Anthers inserted by the middle, kid- 
ney-shaped or oblong, opening above by a transverse chink. Cap- 
sules large, 5-celled, 5-valved, woody ; cells many-seeded. Seeds 
albuminous, enwrapped in silky cotton.—Large trees with soft 
spongy wood, commonly used for making canoes, palmate 
leaves, and large scarlet or white flowers usually rising laterally 
from the trunk or branches, either singly or in clusters. 
J B. Crisa (Lin. spec. 959.) trunk prickly ; leaves palmate, 
with 5 leaflets; fruit turbinate, concave at the apex. h.S. 
IX. CAROLINEA. 
X. BomBax. 511 
Native of South America, Jamaica, &c. &c. B. quinatum, 
Jacq. amer. 192. t.176. f. 1. Flowers large, pale-red. This is 
a very large tree; it is called Ceiba in some parts of South 
America. The wood is very light, and not much valued except 
for making canoes. Their trunks are so large, as when hol- 
lowed to make very large ones. In Columbus's first voyage it 
was related, that a canoe was seen at the island of Cuba made of 
one of these trees, which was 95 palms long, of-a proportionable 
width, and capable of containing 150 men; and some writers 
have affirmed that there are trees of the silk-cotton growing in 
the West Indies, so large as not to be fathomed by 16 men, and 
so tall that an arrow cannot be shot to their tops. The canoes 
now made in the West Indies from this tree frequently carry 
from 15 to 20 hogsheads of sugar from six to twelve hundred 
weight each, the average about twenty-five tons burden. When 
sawn into boards and then well saturated with lime-water, the 
wood bears exposure to the weather many years; it is also 
formed into laths for roofs, curing pots, and hogshead heading. 
When the tree decays it becomes a nest for the Macaca beetle, 
the caterpillar which, when gutted and fried, is esteemed by 
many persons one of the greatest delicacies. The down which 
is enclosed in the seed-vessels is very soft and silky ; it is sel- 
dom used except by the poorer inhabitants to stuff pillows or 
chairs; and it is generally thought unwholesome to lie upon. 
The same may be said of most of the species of Bémbax and 
Eriodéndron. 
Ceiba, or Common Silk-cotton Tree. Clt. 1692. Tree 100 ft. 
2 B. Matrasa’ricum (D. C. prod. 1. p. 479.) trunk prickly ; 
leaves palmate, with 5 or 7 oblong, entire, acuminated leaflets ; 
fruit oblong, blunt. k.S. Native of Malabar and Bengal ; 
also of Java. B. heptaphyllum, Cav. diss. 5. p. 296. Roxb. 
cor. 3. t. 247.—Rheed. mal. 3. t. 52. Flowers in fascicles near 
the extremities of the branches, scarlet or red on the inside, but 
pale on the outside. Calyx irregularly 2 or 3-lobed, or 5-6- 
cleft. The wool in the pods is used in India to stuff pillows and 
beds.—There is also a variety of this tree with white flowers. 
Malabar Silk-cotton Tree. - Tree 80 feet. 
3 B. nsrene (Wall. pl. rar. asiat. 1. p. 74. t. 79 and 80.) 
trunk unarmed ; leaflets 9, obovate, short-acuminated, glaucous 
beneath, as well as the petioles ; corolla 4-times longer than the 
2-lobed calyx ; stamens shorter than the corolla; petals villous 
on the outside; capsule very long. h.S. Native of the Bur- 
man empire near Yenangheun. Flowers large, red, very showy, 
solitary on the naked branches. Stamens monadelphous at the 
base, but separating into 4-5 bundles at the top. Anthers kid- 
ney-shaped, fixed by the middle, yellow. 
Sheny Silk-cotton Tree. Tree 20 to 30 feet. 
4 B. seprena‘tum (Jacq. amer. 193. exclusive of the sy- 
nonymes,) trunk unarmed, corky ; leaves palmate, with 7 entire 
leaflets. h. S. Native of Carthagena. B. heptophyllum, 
Lin. spec. 960. Flowers crimson. Fruit like that of Æriodén- 
dron anfractudsum. 
Seven-leaved Silk-cotton Tree. Cit. 1699. Tree 66 feet. 
5 B. Buonoroze’nse (Beauv. fl. d. ow. et de ben, 2. p. 42. t. 
83.) trunk unarmed. h.®S. Native of Guinea in the king- 
dom of Waree near Buonopozo. Calyx quite entire, capsule 
formed with a small circle onthe margin. Flowers red, woolly 
on the outside. 
Buonopozo Silk-cotton Tree. Tree 100 feet. 
6 B. croposum (Aubl. guian. 2. p. 701. t. 281.) trunk un- 
armed ; leaves palmate, with 5 oval, blunt, entire, emarginate 
leaflets; calyx bluntly 5-lobed ; fruit globose. .S. Native 
of Guiana and Cayenne. Cav. diss. 5. p. 297. t. 155. Flowers 
disposed in axillary and terminal racemes. Pedicels 1-flowered. 
Calyxes smooth. Petals oblong, woolly on the outside, pale 
on the inside. Stamens shorter than the petals. 
