Bombnx. monadrlphia dodecandria. 169 



The wood is wbife, light and spongy, fit for very few pur- 

 poses. Ill India tlie wwA is used to stuff heds and pillows, 

 and to put between the folds of quilted cloth. 



3. B. gosaypinum. Willd. iii. 732. 



Arboreous, unarmed. Leaves five-lobed ; flowers pani- 

 cled, polyandrous. Capsule sub-globular, five-lobed. 



Telitig. Kong-. 



A large beautiful tree, a native of the Circar mountains, it 

 is also cultivated in gardens on many parts of the coast. 



Leaves deciduous during- the cold season. The floicers 

 appear about the beginning' of the hot season, at which time 

 the tree is destitute of leaves, but they soon succeed the 

 flowers. Tnink erect, from eight to eighteen feet high, of- 

 ten much thicker than a man's body ; the head is laroe in 

 proportion to the trunk, and very branchy. Bnik smooth, 

 ash-coloured. Aeaue* scattered about the ends of the branch- 

 lets, from three to five lobed, above pretty smooth, below 

 covered with whitish down, M'ith the lobes entire, acute. I ne- 

 ver could observe any thing like a gland on any part of the 

 under nor upper side. Petioles as long as the leaves, that 

 is liom two to eight inches, downy. Sli pules linear, acute, 

 caducous. Floicers terminal, numerous, sub-panicled, very 

 large, of a bright yellow. Bractes stipule-like, and caducous. 

 Caljix five-leaved ; leaflets oblong, concave. Petals five, 

 obliquely obovate, obliquely and deeply emarginate, or ra- 

 ther cleft, spreading, embracing one another, as in the con- 

 torted plants. F?7«//<e/</ir numerous, short, distinct as in many 

 of the polyandrous plants. Antjiers linear, nearly as lono- 

 as the filaments. Germ above globular. Style rather lonoer 

 than the stamens, but considerably bent to one side. Stigma 

 6inq)le. Capsule broad turbinate, as large as a goose-eoo-, 

 five-lobed, five-celled, five-valved. Seeds numerous, kidney- 

 shaped, woolly. 



The cotton is of a soft, silky nature, not employed ior any 

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