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portions of the tree are, of course, burned. It also yields a 
resin, but I am ignorant in what manner this is prepared: it 
is not used on this coast, though I think it is employed in 
Malabar like Copal, being nearly as pure, and found in con- 
siderable masses. The odour of the flowers is considered 
beneficial in relieving difficulty of respiration, caused by cold 
. in the head, 
SuPPL. Tas. XVII. Calophyllum Inophyllum. Fig. 1, 
Stamen. Fig. 2, Pistil :—smagnified. 
XVIII. 
COCHLOSPERMUM GOSSYPIUM. 
Potyanpria Mowoavwia. Nat. Ord. TERNSTRGMIACE E. 
Trib. IV. LAPLACEJ. 
Gen. Cuar. Cal. 5-sepalus persistens demum reflexus; sepalis 
ovali-oblongis obtusis insqualibus. Pet. 5 subovata 
apice emarginata. Stam. plurima, filam. ima basi sub- 
monadelphis? antheris acuminatis. Stylus simplex. Cap- 
sula ovato-globosa 5-locul. Semina plurima, subcochleata, 
lanigera.— Arbores foliis palmatifidis, floribus flavis. DC. 
Cochlospermum Gossypium ; foliolorum lobis integerrimis. 
Cochlospermum Gossypium. De Cand. Prodr. v. 1. p. 527. 
Bombax grandiflorum. Lonn. Voy. v. 9. p. 235. t. 133. 
Bombax Gossypium. Linn. Syst. Veget. p. 51%. Cav. Diss. 
v. 5. p. 297, t. 157. 
Bombax Congo. Burm. Ind. p. 145. 
Congo Marum. Tamu. 
A large tree, with thick, smooth, furrowed, externally 
cinereous, internally dark reddish-brown bark ; its branches 
large and ascending; the extreme foliaceous and floriferous 
branchlets smooth, tomentose, and of a pale chestnut colour ; 
es alternate, borne on cylindrical downy petioles, which 
are five or six inches long, 5-lobed, lobes lanceolate, ce 
entire, smooth, and green above, tomentose and white beneath, 
veins prominent. Panicle terminal, bearing, during several 
Weeks, a succession of large, bright-yellow flowers : at first 
