232 FLORA NIGRITIANA. 
S. grewioides, Guill. et Perr., S. spinosa, L., S. canescens, Cav., 
and a possibly undescribed species. 
The above, with two plants belonging to other genera of 
Malvacee, viz., Lagunea ternata, Cav., and Bastardia angulata, 
Guill et Perr., complete the catalogue of W. African Mal- 
vacee. 
XVIII. Bompacezx. 
1, Adansonia digitata, Linn.—Cape Verd to Congo, various 
travellers, Vogel, Don, &c. 
2. Bombax Buonopozense, Pal. Beauv. Fl. Ow. et Ben. 2. 
p. 42. t. 83? glaberrimum, foliis palmatis longe petiolatis, 
foliolis anguste elliptico-lanceolatis membranaceis utrinque 
angustatis acuminatis apicem versus remote ciliato-serratis.— 
Station uncertain in Vogel’s collection ; Sierra Leone, Miss 
Turner. 
The flowers of B. Buonopozense are contained in Herb. Hook., 
and to that plant the leaves preserved by Vogel may belong, 
though there are probably other W. African species of the 
genus. — 
3. Eriodendron anfractuosum, DC. Prodr. 1. p. 479. An 
Bombax Guineense, Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. p. 802. — 
Congo River, Christ. Smith. A common East Indian tree- 
XIX. STERCULIACEJE. 
l. Sterculia tragacantha, Lindl., Bot. Reg., t. 1353.—S. pu- 
bescens, G. Don, Gard. Dict. 1. p. 515.—Sierra Leone, Don- 
One of Mr. Don’s specimens is in fruit, and the followmg 
description may be added: : 
Carpella 2, globosa, breviter stipitata, subrostrata v. mucro- 
nata, reticulata, dense ferrugineo-pubescentia. 
This species, like the East Indian S. urens, yields a gum 
resembling Tragacanth. The S. pubescens of Don's Herb. (not 
Gard. Dict.) is the following plant. 
2. Sterculia obovata, Br. in Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 283.—Congo 
