Bomhax. monadelphta dodecandrta. 1C5 



largest is about twenty-five years old, with an irregular, 

 short, sub-conical trunk, which is eighfoon feet in circuniCer- 

 enco, from four to five feet above ground ; the branches di- 

 verge far all round : ihe leaves are deciduous during the 

 cold season, and appear with flowers in May and June. 



BOMB AX. 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. Floiaers drooping, pentan- 

 drous. Stifles declined. Sthjma entire. Leaves digitate. 



Tel'niy. Cadami. 



Ceiba pentandra. Gart. Sem. ii. 244. t. 133. 



Panja. Rheed. Mai. iii. p. 49, 50, and 51 . The first of these 

 gives a good idea of the general habit of the tree. Rnmphius's 

 fig. {vol. i. t. 10.) is too bad to be quoted. 



B^nrj. Shwet simool. 



This eleoant, 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 ])lant 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 alterwards the leaves ; and the seed ripens 

 in May. 



Trunk perfectly straight, 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 saepius circa medium 

 ventricosus, aut crassior snperne quam in ipsa basi, &C." which 

 makes me doubt their being the same. Gaertner's figure of the peri- 



