iH'2 BOIAMQUE. PLANTES VASCULAIRES. 



latioribus , obtusissimis, eniarginalis, diiabiis acutis. Pe- 

 tala 5 oblongo-spalliulata, venosa, basi crassiora et mar- 

 fine incumbentia, cum basi lubi staminum adnata. Tubus 

 stamineus petalis dimidio brevior, glaber ; antherai lineares 

 contorl3e,'ramosce, in tubum pice dilatatum et spiraliter 

 contortum et in lacinias ssepius decem lanceolatas, acutis- 

 simas desinens. Stylus teres, parte superiore crassior, 

 spiralis. Stigmata 5 subulata, erecta, contorta. Fructus 

 capsularis, subcylindraceo-pentagonus, 5-locularis, loculis 

 polyspermis , lana pallida intus farctis, rima longitudinali 

 dehiscentibus et inde 5-valvis. Semina plurima oblonga ^ 

 nigricantia, rostrata. 



Arbor excelsa, Bombacis facie. Folia alterna petiolata , 

 circumscriptione suborbicularia, basi sinu profundo an- 

 gusto, in ambitu 5-7 leviter angulata et remote subdenti- 

 culata. Flores pedunculati ad summitatem ramorum axil- 

 lares, SEepius plures. 



OCHROMA LAGOPOS. 



Ochioma lagopus, Swartz, ^ct, Holm., 1792, p. 148, 

 t. 6. Ibid., Prodr., p. 98. Ibid., Flor, Jnd. occ, II, 

 p. 1144, t. 23. DC, Prodr., I, p. 480. 



Bornbax pjramidalis, Cavan., Diss., V, p. 294, t. 153. 



Crescitin montibus insule Cubee, 



