‘Bombax, MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA, | 165 
largest is about twenty-five years old, with an irregular, 
short, sub2conical trunk, which is eighteen feet in circumfer- 
ence, from four to five feet above ground; the branches di- 
verge far all round; the leaves are deciduous durjng the 
cold season, and appear with flowers in May and June, 
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‘BOMBAX. Schreb. gen. N. 1127. 
Calyx simple, from three to five-toothed,  Corol five-pe- 
talled. Stamina five, or many. Capsule five-celled, five- 
valved. Seeds woolly. 
1. B. pentandrum, Willd. iii, 731. 
Trunk while young, armed. Flowers drooping, pentan- 
drous, Styles declined. Stigma entire. Leaves digitate. 
Teling. Cadami. 
Ceiba pentandra. Gert, Sem. ii. 244. t. 133. 
Panja. Rheed. Mal. iii.p. 49,59, and 51. The first of these 
ite a good idea of the general habit of the tree. Rumphius’s 3 
g. (vol, i. b 10.) i is too bad to be quoted. 
 naagallne simool. . 
This elegant, straight, sub-verticelled tree, seems to differ 
from the West India species, probably specifically; it is 
found in every part of India. On the Coromandel coast, the 
Tamuls plant them about their temples. In Bengal, where 
the winters are colder, the leaves drop off during the cold 
season, In February, when destitute of foliage, the blossoms: 
appear, and:soon afterwards the leaves; and the seed ripens 
in May. © ss 
Trunk perfectly iriighe, in large trees five or six feet in 
circumference, tapering regularly like the mast of a ship.* 
* Jacquin says of the West India tree, “ Truncus est erectus, 
figura valde inequali, rarissime regularis sepius circa medium 
ventricosus, aut crassior superne quam in ipsa basi, &c.” which 
ake me doubt their being the same. Gexinare igre m of the 22 aad 
