segments: its substance thick,: and somewhat coriaceous. 
Corolla of five spreading, at length deflexed, white, round- | 
ish,. waved, faintly-striated petals. Tube of the stamens 
long, ‘thick, united to the base of the petals, terminated 
by very numerous, ‘spreading, afterwards recurved /fila- 
ments, cag. bearing a one-celled anther, of a reddish-brown 
colour astil : Ge ” , silky, ta ering upwards 
into a very long, pes tyle, which is, m age, 
bent down. at an jous manner, and ter- 
minated by a sti, reading, pubescent 
rays. Fruit, a large , downy cap- 
sule, tip ith the base of the ly it is 
divided longitudinally int eight to ten or or more ceils, but 
in a dry state, the partitions seem to be only formed by 
tough, strin 
| is filled with a pulpy 
substance, which, whe , becomes medullose, 
aud in this thes “hese are kidney- 
, brown dots, filled 
mt in by. ‘the. wh cotyledons are 
foliaceous, 
radicle. 
a nd singularly con 
sANSONTA digitata, ‘THIoPIAN Sour Gourp, Mon- | 
aD, Or Baozas, is a native of Senegal, It is said 
‘found in reypr nd Abyssinia, and is be- 
ed in many of thé warmer parts of the world. 
Ba? 
There seems to be no oy seer on that. it is the largest known 
d around the inferior 
tree ; the diameter of the trunk phos nae says, being some- 
times no less than,thirty feet. ut 2 5 gomiige | 
duced into Britain} according | e Hortt so. 
long ago as they Ww Sx j 
yet, as: may be a tree i is not likely, ino 
stoves, to arrive at th 
e, When its flowers and fruit may 
i tru, that representations 
spirits, by Mr Guitpine, from St. Vin é may be - 
rally acceptable. to the Botanical world, eco 
ADANSON, his visit to Senegal, tas Aven a fall inal 
interesting account of this tree, and, certainly, not the least 
striking circumstances respecting it are, its amas crea size, 
and its great age, whence it has been called “ Arbre de 
mille Ans,” and whence too, Humgoupr has been led to speak 
of it as, “ the oldest organic monument of our planet.” Vis 
trunk, indeed, Sreat as is its diameter; has a height by no 
means 
