156 MONADELPHIA DODECANDRIA. Dombnja. 



hairy. Radicle ovate, pointing to the end of the seed most 

 remote from the umbilicus. 



On the Peninsuhj, where the tree is indigenous, the seeds 

 are roasted, and eaten like chesnuts, though not much 

 esteemed. 



ABROMA. Schreh. gen. N. 1217. 

 0//»/.r five leaved. Pt/a/s five, with cucullate base. Sta- 

 minlfdOHs tube five-cleft, the bottom of each fissure bearing 

 three anthers. Sti/les five. Capsules five-wiuged, five-cell- 

 ed, gaping at top. Seeds many. 



A. avffusta. M'illd. iii. 1424. 



Abroma fastuosa, Gcerl. 307. t. 64. 



Beng. Ullat k?nnwl. 



Theobroma augusta. Mill. Illustr. iii. p. 583. 



Abroma Wheelei i. Retz. v. 27. Willd. iii. 1425. is no doubt 

 the same. 



Gossipium demonum. Rnmph. Amh. iv. t. 14. 



A native of various parts of India, growing to be a small 

 tree. Flowers most profusely during the rains, and the 

 seeds ripen in the cold season. The bark abounds with 

 strong, white fibres, which make a very good sub'stitule for 

 hemp, and as the plant grows so quickly, as to yield two, 

 three, or even four crops of cuttings annually fit for peeling, 

 it may be advantageously cultivated for its fibres, which 

 though not so strong as hemp, make good common cord- 

 age, &c. 



BOMBEYA. (Cavan.) 



Calyx five-parted, exterior bractiform. Petals five. Sta- 

 mina twenty, of which five are barren. Style five-cleft. Cap- 

 sules five, coloured, one-celled, one or more seeded. 



